{"id":509267,"date":"2026-03-01T14:40:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T18:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=509267"},"modified":"2026-03-01T14:40:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T18:40:05","slug":"arsenal-defeat-chelsea-to-restore-a-5-point-lead-at-the-top","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/arsenal-defeat-chelsea-to-restore-a-5-point-lead-at-the-top\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal defeat Chelsea to restore a 5-point lead at the top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal won the derby against Chelsea 2-1 at Emirates and restored their 5-point lead at the top of the Premier League as the Gunners are now undefeated in 11 consecutive matches.<\/p>\n<p>All of the goals in the match came after corners, as Mikel Arteta\u2019s side scored twice, and that\u2019s what made the difference for the 3 points today.<\/p>\n<p>The opening goal in the derby came in the 21<sup>st<\/sup> minute as Gabriel assisted Saliba. After that, the Gunners had 2 more chances to double their lead, but they missed it.<\/p>\n<p>In the extra time of the 1<sup>st<\/sup> half, the Blues tied the result as Piero Hincapie scored an own goal.<\/p>\n<p>The winning goal in the match came in the 66<sup>th<\/sup> minute as Jurrien Timber scored as the Blues wanted a foul, but the goal stood.<\/p>\n<p>A few minutes later, Pedro Neto was sent off after receiving 2 yellow cards within 3 minutes and left Chelsea with 10 players on the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>Despite that, the Blues had 2 golden chances to tie the result in the extra time as they even scored, but the goal was disallowed because of an offside, and the Gunners survived with the 3 points.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Three massive points for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Arsenal?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Arsenal<\/a>, and they&#39;re back to five points clear at the top of the table! \ud83d\udd1d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/N20AjM78dJ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/N20AjM78dJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Premier League (@premierleague) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/premierleague\/status\/2028175582693863887?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 1, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal won the derby against Chelsea 2-1 at Emirates and restored their 5-point lead at the top of the Premier League as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":509268,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17383,16774],"news_category":[136,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[17902,366],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The Gunners won the London derby with the Blues.","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\/509267"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/509267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509269,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/509267\/revisions\/509269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509267"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=509267"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=509267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}