Arsenal took flight over Chelsea’s shell. With an unappealable 5-0 win, the north London team once again climbed to the top of the Premier League with 77 points, four more than Manchester City, which has played two fewer games. The victory in the derby healed the wound of the Champions League elimination against Bayern and softened the tense underground relations between Odegaard and Havertz, the eight and the nine of a template that irons out rough edges while striving to adjust pieces of superlative talent. That Gabriel Jorginho, Jesús and Martinelli saw him sitting on the bench is reliable proof. Not even City can afford such a reservation.
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David Raya, Ben White, Takehiro Tomiyasu (Zinchenko, min. 72), Gabriel, William Saliba, Odegaard, Declan Rice, Thomas (Jorginho, min. 72), Kai Havertz (Gabriel Jesus, min. 71), Bukayo Saka (Fabio Daniel Vieira, min. 81) and Trossard (Martinelli, min. 71)
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Dorde Petrovic, Alfie Gilchrist (Thiago Silva, min. 78), Cucurella, Axel Disasi, Benoit Badiashile Mukinayi, Nonso Madueke (Cesare Casadei, min. 78), Enzo Fernández (Trevoh Chalobah, min. 66), Mykhailo Mudryk (Sterling, min. 66), Moisés Caicedo, Conor Gallagher and Nicolas Jackson
Goals 1-0 min. 4: Trossard. 2-0 min. 51: Ben White. 3-0 min. 56: Kai Havertz. 4-0 min. 64: Kai Havertz. 5-0 min. 70: Ben White.
Referee Simon Hooper
Yellow cards Alfie Gilchrist (min. 41), Cucurella (min. 42), Arteta (min. 45) and Ben White (min. 76)
Leandro Trossard was the player who rebelled the most against Bayern’s dominance in the lost quarterfinals of the Champions League, scoring 1-0 against Wolverhampton this weekend, and opening the scoring with the 1-0 score that doubled Chelsea’s back in the London derby played this Tuesday at the Etihad. The Belgian with the prominent cheekbones and the grim gesture of a mortician is the man leading Arsenal in the final battle for the Premier League title. His goal, from Rice’s pass, entered like a rapier into the soul of Mauricio Pochettino’s team, which arrived at the match exhausted after the Cup semi-final played on Saturday against City, a defeat after an endless succession of painful blows. The blues They will remain out of the Champions League next season, mired in the existential crisis from which they have not escaped since the British Government expropriated the club from Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich.
Mired in chaos, Chelsea only came to life when they came out of their own half and deployed Jackson, Enzo Fernandez and Madueke near the Raya area. On their own ground, their defenses gave a recital of the mismatch. Without the need to put pressure on the man, by simply blocking the departure of Enzo Fernández, it was enough for Arsenal to bring the confusion to the rear that Disasi could not manage. The balance of shots was overwhelming: 27 in favor of the home team, seven in favor of Chelsea.
Ben White took advantage of a poorly thrown offside to make it 2-0 from a corner, and the rest was downhill. Odegaard accentuated the agony of his rivals with a memorable performance. The former Madrid player created eight scoring opportunities, including two passes in which he left Havertz alone in front of Petrovic, the goalkeeper. The German wasted them. But the dam finally burst in the 57th minute when Odegaard again launched his teammate in a counterattack. With the defense advanced and the game broken, Havertz got between Disasi and Badiashile and scored the 3-0, a precursor to the 4-0, also his, and another goal from White after another colossal assist from Odegaard.
The win certified the level of the Arsenal squad, the depression of Chelsea, and the state of boiling of a championship that promises strong emotions until the last day, scheduled for May 19. Today (9:00 p.m. on DAZN) second-placed Liverpool plays at Goodison Park. Tomorrow City visit Brighton.
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