Sunday, April 11, 2021 at 9:57 PM• Mart van Mourik • Last update: 22:01

Arsenal booked a simple victory in the Premier League on Sunday evening. The team of trainer Mikel Arteta visited Sheffield United, which was beaten 0-3. Alexandre Lacazette was responsible for two hits. Thanks to the victory, Arsenal climbs to ninth place in the rankings, while Sheffield has almost fallen to the curtain. After 31 rounds of play, the counter is at fourteen points. The gap on the safe number seventeen Newcastle United is eighteen points.

From the first whistle, the visitors explicitly looked for the opening goal. Even before the second minute of play had expired, Bukayo Saka came into a favorable position after a cross from Gabriel Martinelli, but the shot went just over the bar. Sheffield also showed itself in the opening phase via David McGoldrick, who shot a few centimeters wide. Midway through the first half, it was Arsenal’s turn again, when Martinelli got the chance to lash out but didn’t do it accurately enough.

After more than half an hour of play, the Londoners found the deserved opening goal. After beautiful combination football, Dani Ceballos served Lacazette with a technically gifted chop ball, who finished cool-blooded from within the sixteen-meter area: 0-1. Just before half time, Martinelli had a good opportunity to double the lead, but McGoldrick threw his body into the path of the shot and avoided a goal against.

Despite the fact that Arsenal was the parent, it took until the seventieth minute for the safe second goal to be found. John Lundstram produced a miserable wide pass, giving Nicolas Pépé free passage towards the enemy target. Although Aaron Ramsdale had a save on the shot that followed, the Sheffield goalkeeper had to be guilty of the answer to the shot from the rebound of Martinelli: 0-2. The final chord was played by Lacazette. The Frenchman received a splitting pass from Thomas Partey and shot diagonally into the 0-3.