Arsenal thrash Man City 5-1 to reignite EPL title hope

Arsenal thrash Man City 5-1 to reignite EPL title hope

Arsenal put a stunning performance Sunday evening, blowing away the reigning champions with a 5-1 victory at Emirates Stadium.

This has thus kept race for English premiership trophy alive notwithstanding the unrelenting spirit of the league leader, Liverpool.

The Gunners prevailed to move within six points of leaders Liverpool, who have a game in hand.

Arsenal were gifted the perfect start within two minutes as Manuel Akanji lost possession and Kai Havertz squared for Martin Odegaard to open the scoring.

Havertz exposed Arsenal’s lack of a clinical goalscorer when he wasted a glorious chance to double the lead.

That could have proved costly when Erling Haaland headed in his 250th career club goal early in the second half to bring City level.

But the defending champions are a pale shadow of their former selves this season and conceded within 105 seconds of the restart when Thomas Partey’s shot deflected in off John Stones.

Myles Lewis-Skelly would have been suspended if his controversial red card in a 1-0 win at Wolves last weekend had not been overturned.

The 18-year-old made the most of that reprieve by curling in Arsenal’s third for his first goal for the club.

Havertz made up for his earlier miss by steering a precise left-foot finish into the far corner past Ortega with 14 minutes left.

It was icing on the cake for Arsenal as 17-year-old Ethan Nwaneri picked out superbly by Declan Rice, bent a fabulous shot into the far corner.