{"id":509482,"date":"2026-03-04T17:46:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=509482"},"modified":"2026-03-04T17:46:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:46:39","slug":"arsenal-beat-brighton-to-extend-lead-as-manchester-city-draw-forest","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/arsenal-beat-brighton-to-extend-lead-as-manchester-city-draw-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal beat Brighton to extend lead as Manchester City draw Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal secured a 7-point lead at the top of the Premier League after beating Brighton 1-0 away from home, while at the same time Man City failed to defeat Nottingham Forest at Etihad as the match finished without a winner \u2013 2-2.<\/p>\n<p>The Seagulls played better than the Gunners most of the match, but failed to score a single goal, and Bukayo Saka\u2019s goal remained the only 1 in the clash. Saka&#8217;s routine shot took a deflection off Baleba and went through the legs of the Seagulls&#8217; goalkeeper Bart Verbruggen, who definitely can be blamed for not saving the shot.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">On his 300th <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Arsenal?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Arsenal<\/a> appearance, Bukayo Saka extends the Gunners&#39; lead at the top to seven points \ud83d\udd1d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cEzkzkJLf8\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/cEzkzkJLf8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Premier League (@premierleague) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/premierleague\/status\/2029308869189468278?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 4, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>During the same time, Pep Guardiola\u2019s side faced Forest at home as the Sky Blues took the lead in the match twice, but Nottingham tied the result on both occasions and will leave Manchester unbeaten.<\/p>\n<p>Semenyo scored the only goal in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> half to secure a 1-goal lead for Man City, but Gibbs-White evened the score at the beginning of the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> half.<\/p>\n<p>Rodri scored in the 62<sup>nd<\/sup> minute to make it 2-1 for the Sky Blues, but Anderson&#8217;s brilliantly curved finish in the 76<sup>th<\/sup> minute made it 2-2.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester City had a golden chance in the last seconds of the extra time to score 3 goals, but a Forest player cleared the ball after Savinho\u2019s shot inside the box.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udd34 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NFFC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@NFFC<\/a> twice come from behind to hold Man City at the Etihad <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QL5bz7gWES\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/QL5bz7gWES<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Premier League (@premierleague) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/premierleague\/status\/2029309170801954827?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 4, 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 secured a 7-point lead at the top of the Premier League after beating Brighton 1-0 away from home, while at the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":509483,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17383,17183],"news_category":[136,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[18121,366],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The Gunners extended their lead after beating the Seagulls.","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\/509482"}],"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=509482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/509482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509484,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/509482\/revisions\/509484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509482"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=509482"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=509482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}