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Declan Rice has returned to persecute his former club, West Ham United, while Arsenal went up to the top of the Premier League table with a 2-0 victory at the Emrates Stadium on Saturday. The result closed a dominant performance in the 300th Mikel Arte game in office and strengthened the Gunners offer for a first championship title in 22 years.
Rice, who left West Ham in a move of £ 105 million ($ 141 million) in Arsenal in 2023, broke the dead point in the second half after Alphonse Areola spoke of Eberechi Eze in his path.
England International blew the rebound at home to put the Arsenal in front before Bukayo Saka sealed the victory from the penalty point after Jurrien Timber was dirty with El Hadji Malick Dieouf.
The victory raised Arsenal to a free point from Liverpool, which is destined to face Chelsea later during the day. However, they were not all good news for the Arte team, given that Captain Martin Ødegaard was forced to hurt before the interval-the third setback of the genre for the Norwegian director this season.
West Ham’s defeat leaves them bogged down in the relegation area, with the growing pressure on manager David Moyes to change their campaign.
At Old Trafford, Manchester United increased the pressure on manager Ruben Amorim with a convincing 2-0 victory over Sunderland, ending a difficult series of results for the Portuguese coach.
Amorim, who had managed only 34 points compared to his previous 33 games of the Premier League, saw his team produce a strong response in view of the international break. Before the kick -off, the stadium observed a minute of silence in homage to the victims of a recent terrorist attack in a synagogue of Manchester.
The bold calls for selection of the manager were justified as the debutant goalkeeper Senne Lamens kept a clean sheet and the Mason Mount, preferred in front of Matheus Cunha, opened the score at the eighth minute from the Bryan Mbeumo cross.
Bruno Fernandes was unlucky to see his shot engraved on the Sunderland goalkeeper Robin Roefs, while Benjamin Šeško doubled the United advantage before the interval with his first trafficking goal since he joined RB Lipzig for £ 74 million.
Var canceled a penalty assigned to Sunderland at the end of the first half, keeping the United control. The result concluded the race unbeaten to four visitors and brought them back to Earth after a strong start of their return to the Premier League.
In another important result, Tottenham Hotspur has showed off its new defensive determination under Thomas Frank with a 2-1 victory over Leeds United a Elland Road, ending the unbeaten racing of the hosts in the championship.
Mathys Tel opened the spurs markings before Noah Okafor briefly drawing the Leeds level. However, Mohammed Kudus scored his first goal for Tottenham to restore the command and make sure all three points.
“That feeling of overcoming the line and taking three points was big,” Frank said after his team rose to third place in the standings.
Liverpool can recover the first place later on Saturday if he passed Chelsea, who are without victories in three championship games and recently has undergone defeated against Crystal Palace and Galatasaray in the Champions League.
