West Ham vs Arsenal

Arsenal dey look to to secure dia top-four place and Champions League qualification.

90 mins: Eddie Nketiah collect yellow card as e stop West Ham to play free kick. Thirty minutes for West Ham to find anoda equaliser. Dem be currently seventh but Wolves dey four points behind and get one game in hand. Jarrod Bowen dey dia to take am pas Arsenal defence but unfortunately Coufal send am out of play. E no get immediate support so e decide to go for goal but Lukasz Fabianski saves am. Ambitious, but e win one corner as di shot dey blocked. E be like say Jarrod Bowen still no happy about di booking e get earlier. Martin Odegaard send in di corner but Kurt Zouma send a header away. Di forward twist and turn before crossing for Zouma, nut e header hit a defender. Mohamed Elneny dey caught by a late challenge by Kurt Zouma and e dey down on di ground wit injury. Ambitious, but he does win a corner as the shot is blocked. Martin Odegaard sends in the corner but Kurt Zouma powers a header away.

It's advantage Arsenal in the race for the Champions League after a 2-1 victory at the London Stadium.

- Xhaka – 6 - Elneny – 6 - Soucek – 6 - Antonio – 6 - Zouma – 6 - Coufal – 6 Gabriel was the beneficiary of West Ham’s largesse on this occasion, converging on Martinelli’s cross unattended and planting his header in the net via the leg of Fabianski. Interestingly, in an entirely co-incidental episode, Saka was booked for a trip on Bowen two minutes into the second half. Saka swung it in and Holding rose unchallenged to make a statue of Lukasz Fabianski. Mikel Arteta went through his Riverdance routine in the technical area as if the goal were the fruit of some grand design. In the absence of the brittle Thomas Partey, Arsenal’s promising three ball of Martin Odegaard, Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Martinelli are starved of quick ball. West Ham, having played 30 per cent more games than Arsenal, care of their ongoing European involvement, rested the influential Tomas Soucek and Michail Antonio seemingly without impact. Such is the chasm in quality beneath Manchester City and Liverpool you wonder what the point might be other than the PR benefit associated with Champions League participation.

Report and free match highlights as Gabriel Magalhaes second-half header secures a 2-1 win for Arsenal against West Ham; Gunners move back into fourth place ...

That was a risk we took and in the end it came back to punish us." West Ham have the second leg of their Europa League semi-final with Eintracht Frankfurt on Thursday evening, before travelling to Norwich next weekend. The team we put out today lacked that height we required." I think if the referee had seen it, he would have stopped it." He will not be short of people wanting him. I really like him. On one occasion, he fired a yard wide of the far post. "With the ball we were really poor. They showed the spirit we have. "You have to find a way, you have to play the game that is necessary to play when you are not at your best and we did that in a lot of moments." "I'm still digesting a lot of things we didn't do right, but as a team to grow in confidence and to continue with the moment we have, we've won against three big teams in a row." Mikel Arteta praised his Arsenal side for "winning ugly" as they battled to a 2-1 win over West Ham to climb back above Tottenham and boost their prospects of a top-four finish.