{"id":1270330,"date":"2022-12-27T10:20:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T10:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/27\/pl-arsenal-fight-back-to-beat-west-ham-to-extend-lead\/"},"modified":"2022-12-27T10:20:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T10:20:23","slug":"pl-arsenal-fight-back-to-beat-west-ham-to-extend-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/27\/pl-arsenal-fight-back-to-beat-west-ham-to-extend-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"PL:\u00a0Arsenal fight back to beat West Ham to extend\u00a0lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/128131323_arsenal-696x392.jpg\"   alt=\"Gabriel Martinelli is Arsenal's joint top scorer in the Premier League this season - alongside Bukayo Saka and Martin Odegaard - after scoring his sixth goal\" title=\"Gabriel Martinelli is Arsenal's joint top scorer in the Premier League this season - alongside Bukayo Saka and Martin Odegaard - after scoring his sixth goal\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gabriel Martinelli is Arsenal&#8217;s joint top scorer in the Premier League this season &#8211; alongside Bukayo Saka and Martin Odegaard &#8211; after scoring his sixth goal<br \/>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Arsenal underlined their title credentials by producing a second-half fightback to beat West Ham and move seven points clear at the top as the Premier League returned after the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>West Ham took the lead against the run of play when Jarrod Bowen was judged to have been clipped in the box by William Saliba, allowing Said Benrahma to smash a confident penalty down the middle.<\/p>\n<p>There was a mood of frustration among the home fans until Bukayo Saka converted from close range after collecting Martin Odegaard\u2019s mis-hit shot.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>The equaliser gave increased impetus to the Gunners and another home goal looked increasingly likely.<\/p>\n<p>Five minutes later, it duly arrived. Gabriel Martinelli put the hosts ahead, catching out West Ham\u2019s former Gunners keeper Lukasz Fabianski by tucking inside the near post from a tight angle when he looked more likely to cross.<\/p>\n<p>The points were sealed when Eddie Nketiah \u2013 starting in place of the injured Gabriel Jesus \u2013 spun sharply in the box before firing into the opposite bottom corner.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal extended their lead at the top over Newcastle, who moved second by beating Leicester earlier on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Reigning champions Manchester City \u2013 who go to Leeds United on Wednesday \u2013 are now eight points behind the Gunners.<\/p>\n<p>West Ham are 16th and just a point above the relegation zone after their fourth league defeat in a row.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"2cdqaohYJeo\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nima Legacy: Mohammed Polo \u2018blesses\u2019 Mohammed Kudus \u2013 Agokansie - Adom TV News (26-12-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2cdqaohYJeo?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gabriel Martinelli is Arsenal&#8217;s joint top scorer in the Premier League this season &#8211; alongside Bukayo Saka and Martin Odegaard &#8211; after scoring his sixth goal Arsenal underlined their title credentials by producing a second-half fightback to beat West Ham and move seven points clear at the top as the Premier League returned after the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1270331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[193,30044,1271,4635,30045,916],"class_list":["post-1270330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-beat","tag-extendlead","tag-fight","tag-ham","tag-plarsenal","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1270330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1270330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1270330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1270330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}