{"id":430314,"date":"2023-03-19T12:44:58","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T16:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=430314"},"modified":"2023-03-19T12:44:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T16:44:58","slug":"arsenal-go-8-points-clear-with-comfortable-4-1-victory-over-palace","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/arsenal-go-8-points-clear-with-comfortable-4-1-victory-over-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal go 8 points clear with comfortable 4-1 victory over Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal took full advantage of Manchester City FA Cup duties to move 8 points clear at the top of the Premier League table after effortless display against hapless Crystal Palace on Sunday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Four goals, three points. One BIG win. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sAj1S78Lz3\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/sAj1S78Lz3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Arsenal (@Arsenal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Arsenal\/status\/1637482481787052036?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The League leaders were the more persistent side and they struck first right before the half hour mark through Gabriel Martinelli&#8217;s left-footed shot.<\/p>\n<p>Bukayo Saka doubled the home team advantage right before the half-time whistle and made their task even more comfortable.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Granit Xhaka made it 3-0 in the 55th minute, before Jeffrey Schlupp pulled one back eight minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>But it proved to be a mere consolation goal as Saka put another one past goalkeeper Joe Whitword to send Palace marching.<\/p>\n<p>With this result Arsenal move to 69 points at the top, 8 clear ahead of City, who have a game in hand.<\/p>\n<p>The Gunners remain favorites to clinch the title (their first since the 2003-04 season) once the Premier League action returns on 1 April after the International break.<\/p>\n<p>More importantly, this victory serves as a morale boost after the bitter Europa League last 16 exit to Sporting Lisbon.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal would need every bit of boost to claim the long-awaited Premier League trophy as Manchester City, despite trailing by 8 points with a game in hand, still remain a menacing side as shown by the Citizen&#8217;s latest results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal took full advantage of Manchester City FA Cup duties to move 8 points clear at the top of the Premier League table [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":430315,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17383,16881,18279,18263,17183],"news_category":[14235,136],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The Gunners made light use of managereless Palace","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/430314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/430314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430314"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=430314"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=430314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}