Burnley 0 Arsenal 5
Burnley welcomed Arsenal to Turf Moor with a huge task ahead if they were going to get anything out of this fixture. The Clarets have been more error prone at home than Oscar Pistorius and the results were proving to be just as damaging.
Rice burst forward from his own half to find Martinelli out on the left wing. He needed no invite to run at the hosts’ defence and found Odegaard on the edge of the box. He took one touch to set himself before hitting a superbly struck half volley into the bottom corner to open the scoring.
Saka played a pass into Trossard, with the Belgian running clean through on goal. As he tried to take the ball around Trafford, the Burnley keeper got an all-important hand to it to prevent him scoring. Then cue the assistant raising his flag for the usual delayed decision like your stream is buffering.
In a rare attack for the hosts, Odobert weaved his way into the Arsenal penalty area before drilling a cross come shot from the byline. Raya got a hand to it to beat the ball out, it seemed an incredibly tight angle for the Burnley player to be trying to score from.
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As the rain hammered down, it was wetter than the front row of a Justin Bieber concert. Havertz played Trossard in and Assignon’s sliding challenge chopped the striker down. Saka stepped up to take the spot kick and squeezed it past Trafford into the bottom corner.
Vincent Kompany was serving a touchline ban and as a result was forced to watch this game from the stands. It must have been like watching your car being stolen from the street in a high-rise building, unable to do anything about what was unfolding.
The Gunners continued to turn the screw as Saka twisted and turned in the box before rifling a right-footed shot in the top corner of the net. Trafford will be disappointed to be beaten at his near post but it was just the power of the shot he could not react to.
Things went from bad to worse for Burnley as an Odegaard tackle on Ramsey saw the midfielder stretched off, needing gas and air to deal with the pain he was in. If the injury is as bad as it looked, when he next takes the field for The Clarets, they could be a Championship club.
Burnley continued to try and play out from the back and were the architects of their own downfall. Martinelli picked it up and went down in the box before finding Trossard with a pass from the floor. The Arsenal forward dragged his shot wide of the goal, missing a sitter.
He did not have to wait long to make amends as The Clarets failed to clear their lines and he stroked a left-footed shot into the far corner. The weather summed up the mood in the ground as this was becoming a reoccurring feeling at Turf Moor this season.
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To rub salt in the wound, Havertz ran into the Burnley box, skipping past Delcroix. Trafford came out to meet him and he slotted the ball home to make this an emphatic win for Mikel Arteta’s side and no more than they deserved.
Victory took The Gunners to second in the table and only two points behind Liverpool. Fans feel Arteta’s side have learnt from last season’s disappointment and have the minerals to go all the way in their pursuit of the title this time around.
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