He Arsenal (2nd) defeated Leicester (2-0) with a double by Mikel Merino this Saturday to return to four points from the leader Liverpoolwho plays Sunday on the 25th day of the Premier League, while Manchester City He defeated Newcastle with Triplete of the Egyptian Omar Marmous.
In Leicester, the ‘gunners’ obtained three precious points in the fight for the title thanks to the European champion midfielder with La Roja, who marked head after a perfect center of Ethan Nwaneri (81), and then when flooding a pass from Leandro Trosssard in the second post (87).
The coach Mikel Arteta found the solution by entry to his star signing for this season in the 70th minute, in the front position instead of Raheem Sterling, again disappointing.
“Mikel (Arteta) told me this morning to play as a striker. We talked a little with one of his attendees and it is the first time in my career that I play in that position. He told me that with my qualities I can help, fortunately I marked two goals” , Merino declared.
Arteta cannot count for injury with four usual holders in attack; Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Martinelli ends, and strikers Gabriel Jesus and Kai Havertz.
In the classification, Arsenal (2nd, 53 pts) is re -located four points from Liverpool (1st, 57 pts), which receives Wolverhampton on Sunday.
The Leicester (18º, 17 pts) follows two points behind the first team outside the descent zone, the Wolverhampton.
In Manchester, the City (4th, 44 points) received the Newcastle (7th, 41 points) four days after having fallen 3-2 in the Etihad against Real Madrid, in the first leg of the ‘play-offs of access to access to Eighth of the Champions League.
Despite that varapalo, the ‘citizens’ did not tremble this Saturday.
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The 26 -year -old Egyptian attacker Omar Marmoush, arrived in England in the ‘mercato’ of January, premiered with his new club, scoring a triplet in just fifteen minutes: his targets in the minutes 19, 24 and 33 left knocked out to ‘the’ URACAS ‘and fueled the flame of hope for the transcendental second leg against the Spanish club next Wednesday, at Santiago Bernabéu.
“We knew that sooner or later it would score goals, it is a great finisher,” said coach Pep Guardiola about his new scorer.
A face to face solved against Dubravka, a shoe after driblating his marking and an accurate shot first of Bocajarro: the new attacker ‘Citizen’ demonstrated a range of definitions, in a win topped by the young midfielder James Mcatee (84).
“As we have played, we remind the team that we were and that we have not been this season,” Guardiola confessed.
The bad news was a worrying knee injury of Erling Haaland, replaced in the final minutes (88) before a key week for his own, because after the transcendental appointment against Real Madrid, the City will be measured to the Liverpool leader in the Next day of Premier League.
In the rest of this Saturday, the Nottingham Forest, surprising third classified (47 pts), fell 2-1 on the Fulham court (8th), while Andoni Iraola’s bournemouth (5th, 43 pts) beat 3- 1 in the house of Colista Southampton.
The Ipswich (18th), managed to get out of Birmingham with a 1-1 draw against Aston Villa (9th), despite the fact that the ‘tractor Boys’ played almost an hour with one less player.
