Fulham 0-3 Arsenal: Gunners restore five-point lead at top of table with convincing win

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Gabriel Martinelli (left) scores Arsenal's 2nd  extremity   against FulhamGabriel Martinelli heads location Arsenal's 2nd extremity astatine Fulham

Arsenal restored their five-point vantage astatine the apical of the Premier League successful outstanding manner with a ruthless triumph astatine Fulham.

Mikel Arteta's broadside responded to Manchester City's constrictive triumph astatine Crystal Palace connected Saturday nighttime by wrapping up this triumph by half-time arsenic they opened up a 3-0 pb with a devastating attacking display.

Gabriel Martinelli had already had a extremity narrowly ruled retired for offside by VAR, earlier defender Gabriel headed successful Leandro Trossard's country aft 21 minutes, the archetypal of a trio of assists for the Belgian.

Trossard past crossed for Martinelli to bushed the static Antonee Robinson to caput location astatine the acold station 5 minutes later, earlier providing the transportation for skipper Martin Odegaard to snuff retired immoderate anticipation of a Fulham betterment with a chill decorativeness of the highest people successful first-half stoppage time.

Fulham mounted a belated menace aft the interruption arsenic Arsenal keeper Aaron Ramsdale denied Bobby De Cordova-Reid, portion Tosin Adarabioyo headed against the woodwork.

Arsenal, however, were ever successful power and Arteta was capable to re-introduce influential striker Gabriel Jesus for the archetypal clip since helium required genu country aft being injured playing for Brazil against Cameroon astatine the World Cup for a 13-minute cameo.

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Fulham

  1. Squad number17Player nameLeno

  2. Squad number2Player nameTete

  3. Squad number4Player nameTosin

  4. Squad number13Player nameReam

  5. Squad number33Player nameRobinson

  6. Squad number6Player nameReed

  7. Squad number28Player nameLukic

  8. Squad number14Player nameDe Cordova-Reid

  9. Squad number18Player nameAndreas Pereira

  10. Squad number11Player nameSolomon

  11. Squad number9Player nameMitrovic

  1. Squad number8Player nameWilson

  2. Squad number21Player nameJames

Arsenal

  1. Squad number1Player nameRamsdale

  2. Squad number4Player nameWhite

  3. Squad number12Player nameSaliba

  4. Squad number6Player nameGabriel Magalhães

  5. Squad number35Player nameZinchenko

  6. Squad number8Player nameØdegaard

  7. Squad number5Player namePartey

  8. Squad number34Player nameXhaka

  9. Squad number7Player nameSaka

  10. Squad number19Player nameTrossard

  11. Squad number11Player nameGabriel Martinelli

  1. Squad number3Player nameTierney

  2. Squad number9Player nameGabriel Jesus

  3. Squad number18Player nameTomiyasu

  4. Squad number21Player nameFábio Vieira

  5. Squad number24Player nameNelson

Line-ups

Fulham

Formation 4-2-3-1

  • 17Leno
  • 2Tete
  • 4Tosin
  • 13Ream
  • 33Robinson
  • 6Reed
  • 28Lukic
  • 14De Cordova-Reid
  • 18PereiraSubstituted forWilsonat 76'minutes
  • 11SolomonSubstituted forJamesat 76'minutes
  • 9Mitrovic

Substitutes

  • 1Rodák
  • 8Wilson
  • 21James
  • 30Alves Morais
  • 31Diop
  • 35Francois
  • 38Harris
  • 40Wickens
  • 42Robinson

Arsenal

Formation 4-3-3

  • 1Ramsdale
  • 4WhiteSubstituted forTomiyasuat 80'minutes
  • 12Saliba
  • 6Gabriel
  • 35ZinchenkoSubstituted forTierneyat 72'minutes
  • 8ØdegaardBooked astatine 74mins
  • 5Partey
  • 34Xhaka
  • 7SakaSubstituted forNelsonat 72'minutes
  • 19TrossardSubstituted forGabriel Jesusat 77'minutes
  • 11MartinelliSubstituted forFábio Vieiraat 77'minutes

Substitutes

  • 3Tierney
  • 9Gabriel Jesus
  • 10Smith Rowe
  • 16Holding
  • 18Tomiyasu
  • 20Jorginho
  • 21Fábio Vieira
  • 24Nelson
  • 30Turner

Live Text

  1. Match ends, Fulham 0, Arsenal 3.

  2. Second Half ends, Fulham 0, Arsenal 3.

  3. Fábio Vieira (Arsenal) wins a escaped footwear successful the attacking half.

  4. Foul by Tosin Adarabioyo (Fulham).

  5. Attempt blocked. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Fulham) close footed changeable from the centre of the container is blocked.

  6. Corner, Fulham. Conceded by Gabriel Magalhães.

  7. Foul by Martin Ødegaard (Arsenal).

  8. Dan James (Fulham) wins a escaped footwear successful the antiaircraft half.

  9. Attempt blocked. Fábio Vieira (Arsenal) near footed changeable from the centre of the container is blocked.

  10. Corner, Arsenal. Conceded by Tosin Adarabioyo.

  11. Attempt missed. Martin Ødegaard (Arsenal) near footed changeable from the centre of the container is excessively high. Assisted by Reiss Nelson.

  12. Attempt missed. Harry Wilson (Fulham) near footed changeable from the centre of the container is conscionable a spot excessively high. Assisted by Harrison Reed.

  13. Corner, Arsenal. Conceded by Bernd Leno.

  14. Attempt saved. Gabriel Jesus (Arsenal) close footed changeable from the close broadside of the container is saved successful the centre of the goal. Assisted by Fábio Vieira.

  15. Offside, Fulham. Tim Ream tries a done ball, but Aleksandar Mitrovic is caught offside.

  16. Foul by Gabriel Magalhães (Arsenal).

  17. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Fulham) wins a escaped footwear successful the attacking half.

  18. Attempt blocked. Reiss Nelson (Arsenal) close footed changeable from extracurricular the container is blocked.

  19. Substitution, Arsenal. Takehiro Tomiyasu replaces Ben White.

  20. Martin Ødegaard (Arsenal) wins a escaped footwear successful the attacking half.

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