Arsenal beat Chelsea in Emirates like Fulham Thrash Tottenham

The challenge of Chelsea for a place in the Champions League of the next season has launched in a 1-0 defeat without teeth at Arsenal Sunday, while Fulham defeated Tottenham 2-0.

Mikel Merino scored the only goal of a disappointing match at the Emrates Stadium while Arsenal got clear to second place and within 12 points from the Leader on the run Liverpool.

Chelsea seriously missed the presence of the absent Cole Palmer due to an injury while they surrendered with a shower to a defeat harmful to their hopes of a higher goal.

The blues remain in fourth place for now, but have five sides from Manchester City to the fifth Aston Villa to Nono placed four points from the team of Enzo Maresca.

Both managers hope to be stronger after the imminent international break.
Bukayo Saka approaches a return for Arsenal, while Maresca is confident of having Palmer, Nico Jackson and Noni Madueke when the next ones in Tottenham will be the next one on April 3.

Arsenal fought badly for the objectives since the loss of Kai Havertz for an end of the season injury forced the Merino midfielder to a central fortune role.

The Spanish international showed the winner of the match from a corner while he made the rounds of a header from Martin Odegaard’s delivery inside the post in 20 minutes.

Chelsea has just threatened, but was almost equipped with a journey in the game when David Raya foiled Marc Cucurella’s shot and the ball moved away.

At the other end, Robert Sanchez del Chelsea made a large stop to prevent Merino who doubled the Arsenal with the best effort of the second half.

But the game went out with a small Goalmouth Action while an inert performance will do very little to calm the critics of the Maresca playing style between Chelsea’s support.

Tottenham has maintained their season alive by reaching the quarter -finals of the Europa League with the victory over Az Alkmaar on Thursday, but suffered the last of a series of aftermath of a European hangover in Craven Cottage.

The victory for Fulham pushes Marco Silva’s men in the race for the Champions League places while they will go up to the eighth, four points from the first four and three outside the first five.

A milestone among the top five will almost certainly ensure a place in the club competition in Europe next season thanks to the strong performance of the English teams in European competitions.

Tottenham won only three times in the 10 championship games that followed a midweek Europa League appointment.

The Spurs remain down in the 13th, now 10 points from the upper half.

Manchester United is in action later on Sunday, when Ruben Amorim’s team will visit Lovely Leicester.