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Brighton person won their past 3 matches astatine Emirates Stadium successful the league and cupArsenal's fading rubric hopes were dealt a devastating stroke aft losing to Brighton to permission leaders Manchester City 1 triumph from a 5th Premier League rubric successful six seasons.
The Gunners needed to respond aft City's 3-0 triumph implicit Everton earlier connected Sunday near Mikel Arteta's broadside trailing by 4 points successful the contention for the title.
On a profoundly frustrating time for Arsenal, Leandro Trossard deed the barroom against his erstwhile nine portion Martin Odegaard and Bukayo Saka some went adjacent earlier Julio Enciso's close-range header enactment Brighton ahead.
Substitute Deniz Undav doubled the pb aft lobbing Aaron Ramsdale successful the 86th infinitesimal earlier Pervis Estupinan added to Arsenal's misery with Brighton's 3rd successful the 96th minute.
City volition triumph the Premier League rubric adjacent Sunday successful beforehand of their ain fans if they bushed Chelsea astatine location (16:00 BST), adjacent if Arsenal decision Nottingham Forest astatine the City Ground connected Saturday (17:30).
However, City volition beryllium confirmed champions without playing connected Saturday if the Gunners suffer astatine Forest.
In a crippled littered with niggly fouls, Arsenal mislaid Brazil guardant Gabriel Martinelli to wounded successful the archetypal fractional aft a foul by Brighton's Ecuador midfielder Moises Caicedo, who the Gunners tried to sign successful January.
Brighton, who are chasing a spot successful Europe for the archetypal time, had gone adjacent done Enciso earlier the Paraguay guardant stunned the Emirates with his 51st-minute goal.
The triumph lifted the Seagulls supra some Aston Villa and Tottenham into sixth connected 58 points, 4 down fifth-placed Liverpool with 1 crippled successful hand.
The maximum fig of points Arsenal tin people is 87, portion City person 85 with matches against Chelsea (home), Brighton (away) and Brentford (away) to come.
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Arsenal's rubric situation runs retired of steam
Arsenal's players sank to their knees aft the full-time whistle, the realisation rapidly sinking successful that their rubric imagination was each but implicit aft being picked isolated by Brighton.
The Gunners merit tremendous recognition for the mode they person pushed Manchester City successful the rubric contention but their pursuit is adjacent to being extinguished aft a highly damaging decision astatine the concern extremity of the season.
Manchester City's comfy triumph astatine Everton earlier connected Sunday opened up a four-point spread astatine the apical but this clip Arsenal were incapable to respond to the unit heaped connected them by Pep Guardiola's Treble-chasing team.
There was inactive astir 40 minutes near erstwhile Enciso opened the scoring but the Gunners failed to find the nett for the archetypal clip since 4 February.
Arteta sent connected Eddie Nketiah and Emile Smith Rowe to effort and salvage a constituent but the Arsenal boss, who was shown a yellowish paper by referee Andy Madley, saw his broadside concede 2 further goals arsenic the location broadside suffered a broad defeat.
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Arsenal
Squad number1Player nameRamsdale- Squad number4Player nameWhite
- Squad number15Player nameKiwior
- Squad number6Player nameGabriel Magalhães
- Squad number3Player nameTierney
- Squad number8Player nameØdegaard
- Squad number20Player nameJorginho
Squad number34Player nameXhaka- Squad number7Player nameSaka
- Squad number9Player nameGabriel Jesus
- Squad number11Player nameGabriel Martinelli
- Squad number5Player namePartey
- Squad number10Player nameSmith Rowe
- Squad number14Player nameNketiah
- Squad number19Player nameTrossard
Squad number24Player nameNelson
Brighton & Hove Albion
- Squad number23Player nameSteele
- Squad number25Player nameCaicedo
- Squad number5Player nameDunk
- Squad number6Player nameColwill
- Squad number30Player nameEstupiñán
- Squad number13Player nameGroß
- Squad number27Player nameGilmour
- Squad number22Player nameMitoma
- Squad number10Player nameMac Allister
- Squad number20Player nameEnciso
- Squad number28Player nameFerguson
Squad number18Player nameWelbeck- Squad number21Player nameUndav
- Squad number40Player nameBuonanotte
Line-ups
Arsenal
Formation 4-3-3
- 1Ramsdale
- 4White
- 15Kiwior
- 6Gabriel
- 3Tierney
- 8ØdegaardSubstituted forSmith Roweat 77'minutes
- 20JorginhoSubstituted forParteyat 60'minutesBooked astatine 88mins
- 34XhakaSubstituted forNelsonat 60'minutes
- 7Saka
- 9Gabriel JesusSubstituted forNketiahat 77'minutes
- 11MartinelliSubstituted forTrossardat 20'minutes
Substitutes
- 5Partey
- 10Smith Rowe
- 14Nketiah
- 16Holding
- 19Trossard
- 21Fábio Vieira
- 24Nelson
- 30Turner
- 97Walters
Brighton
Formation 4-2-3-1
- 23Steele
- 25Caicedo
- 5Dunk
- 6Colwill
- 30EstupiñánBooked astatine 34mins
- 13GroßBooked astatine 55mins
- 27GilmourSubstituted forWelbeckat 60'minutes
- 22Mitoma
- 10Mac Allister
- 20EncisoSubstituted forUndavat 82'minutes
- 28FergusonSubstituted forBuonanotteat 77'minutes
Substitutes
- 18Welbeck
- 21Undav
- 26Ayari
- 29van Hecke
- 38McGill
- 40Buonanotte
- 42Offiah
- 49Moran
- 51Peupion
Referee:Andy Madley
Attendance:60,139
Live Text
Match ends, Arsenal 0, Brighton and Hove Albion 3.
Second Half ends, Arsenal 0, Brighton and Hove Albion 3.
Goal! Arsenal 0, Brighton and Hove Albion 3. Pervis Estupiñán (Brighton and Hove Albion) near footed changeable from the centre of the container to the precocious centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Deniz Undav (Brighton and Hove Albion) close footed changeable from extracurricular the container is saved successful the bottommost near corner. Assisted by Danny Welbeck.
Attempt blocked. Reiss Nelson (Arsenal) close footed changeable from the near broadside of the container is blocked. Assisted by Thomas Partey.
Offside, Brighton and Hove Albion. Levi Colwill tries a done ball, but Pervis Estupiñán is caught offside.
Moisés Caicedo (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a escaped footwear successful the antiaircraft half.
Foul by Reiss Nelson (Arsenal).
Attempt blocked. Kaoru Mitoma (Brighton and Hove Albion) close footed changeable from the centre of the container is blocked. Assisted by Deniz Undav.
Hand shot by Deniz Undav (Brighton and Hove Albion).
Thomas Partey (Arsenal) is shown the yellowish paper for a atrocious foul.
Kaoru Mitoma (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a escaped footwear successful the antiaircraft half.
Foul by Thomas Partey (Arsenal).
Goal! Arsenal 0, Brighton and Hove Albion 2. Deniz Undav (Brighton and Hove Albion) near footed changeable from the centre of the container to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Pascal Groß.
Foul by Deniz Undav (Brighton and Hove Albion).
Thomas Partey (Arsenal) wins a escaped footwear successful the antiaircraft half.
Attempt saved. Deniz Undav (Brighton and Hove Albion) close footed changeable from extracurricular the container is saved successful the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Gabriel Magalhães (Arsenal) close footed changeable from the centre of the container is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Thomas Partey pursuing a corner.
Corner, Arsenal. Conceded by Lewis Dunk.
Attempt blocked. Reiss Nelson (Arsenal) near footed changeable from a hard space connected the near is blocked. Assisted by Eddie Nketiah.
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