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Arsenal scored five goals away from home for the second time in a week as they swept West Ham aside 5-2 at London Stadium on Saturday.
Having thrashed Sporting CP 5-1 in the UEFA Champions League in midweek, it was back to Premier League action and more of the same. All seven goals in the game came in a chaotic first half, with Gabriel Magalhães, Leandro Trossard, Martin Ødegaard, Kai Havertz and Bukayo Saka finding the net for the Gunners.
West Ham briefly showed some fight with goals from Aaron Wan-Bissaka and Emerson, but Julen Lopetegui’s men slumped to their fourth home league defeat of the season.
It was a bright start from the visitors, with the familiar sight of Gabriel heading in a Saka corner to give Arsenal the lead. Since the start of last season, Arsenal’s 20 goals from corners and Gabriel’s five from corners are both the most by a team and a single player in the Premier League.
Mikel Arteta’s men had the Hammers penned in and a moment of class doubled their lead inside the first half hour when Ødegaard clipped a lovely ball into the path of Saka, who unselfishly squared for Trossard to tap in at the far post.
Ødegaard converted a penalty after Saka was felled in the box to make it three, before Havertz ran onto a long pass from Trossard to score with ease after Max Kilman misjudged the flight of the ball.
West Ham didn’t record their first shot of the game until the 38th minute, but it turned out to be a good one as Wan Bissaka ran onto Carlos Soler’s pass to pull one back and score his second goal in a week.
That was almost immediately followed by Emerson bending in a free-kick off the underside of the bar to bring the deficit back to two, all inside the first 40 minutes.
Lopetegui’s men conceded again from the spot just before half-time though after Lukasz Fabianski inadvertently made contact with Gabriel as he tried to punch a corner clear. The Polish goalkeeper almost kept Saka’s penalty out, but the Gunners went in 5-2 up at the break.
It was only the fourth Premier League game to see seven goals in the first half, but that was the end of the excitement as the second half played out with one team wanting to avoid further punishment and the other happy to see out the win.
Arsenal move up to second ahead of leaders Liverpool’s clash with champions Manchester City on Sunday.
7 – West Ham v Arsenal is only the fourth Premier League game to see seven goals in the first half alone, after Blackburn v Leeds in September 1997, Bradford v Derby in April 2000, and Reading v Man Utd in December 2012. Crazy. pic.twitter.com/Zji8BguDu6
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) November 30, 2024
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West Ham vs Arsenal: Post-Match Facts
Arsenal have scored 5+ goals in five different away games in all competitions in 2024, the joint-most in a single calendar year by an English top-flight side, along with Sunderland in 1892 and Manchester City in 1937.
West Ham conceded five goals in the first half of a Premier League game for the first time. They’ve conceded more goals than any other side in the top-flight in 2024 (68), shipping 5+ goals on four occasions.
Arsenal have now scored 60 Premier League away goals against West Ham, the first side to score 60+ on the road against a single opponent in the competition.
Gabriel has scored 17 Premier League goals, the most of any defender since his debut in the competition in September 2020. 10 of these have come in London derbies, the highest percentage of any player in Premier League history (59%, min. 15 goals).
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