{"id":1170,"date":"2023-04-02T09:28:11","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T09:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2023-04-02T09:28:11","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T09:28:11","slug":"arsenal-brush-aside-leeds-united-4-1-to-maintain-title-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2023\/04\/02\/arsenal-brush-aside-leeds-united-4-1-to-maintain-title-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal Brush Aside Leeds United 4-1 To Maintain Title Charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Gabriel Jesus scored twice as Arsenal regained their eight-point lead at the Premier League summit by sweeping aside\u00a0Leeds United 4-1.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Jesus marked his first\u00a0start since November with a goal in each half at\u00a0Emirates Stadium, while Ben White and Granit Xhaka were also on target for Arsenal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Although Manchester City applied the pressure with their 4-1 victory over Liverpool earlier on Saturday, Mikel Arteta\u2019s side did not relent as they comfortably secured a seventh straight league win.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Rasmus Kristensen\u2019s goal gave Leeds hope before Xhaka rendered it a mere consolation for the visitors, who\u00a0are\u00a0only outside of the relegation zone on goal difference.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Leeds gave the league leaders a scare inside the opening minute when\u00a0Kristensen drew a smart reflex save from Aaron Ramsdale.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Ramsdale was needed again after Jesus headed over at the other end, denying Crysencio Summerville following a neat one-two with Marc Roca, while he also kept Jack Harrison out from a tight angle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">But after weathering the storm, Arsenal drew first blood 10 minutes before the break with Jesus calmly rolling home from the penalty spot after he was felled by Luke Ayling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The hosts doubled their lead within two minutes of the restart. White \u2013 an ever-present during Leeds\u2019\u00a0Championship title-winning season three years ago \u2013 arrived at the far post to turn in Gabriel Martinelli\u2019s delicious cross.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Jesus grabbed his second goal eight minutes later, the Brazil forward prodding home after combining superbly with Leandro Trossard.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Leeds pulled one back in the 76th minute when Kristensen\u2019s shot deflected in via Oleksandr Zinchenko, but Xhaka headed in Martin Odegaard\u2019s excellent delivery to ensure Arsenal had the final word.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gabriel Jesus scored twice as Arsenal regained their eight-point lead at the Premier League summit by sweeping aside\u00a0Leeds United 4-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1172,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions\/1172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}