{"id":1272215,"date":"2022-12-31T19:48:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T19:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/31\/epl-table-after-arsenal-beat-brighton-to-extend-their-lead-at-the-top-of-the-league-table\/"},"modified":"2022-12-31T19:48:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T19:48:04","slug":"epl-table-after-arsenal-beat-brighton-to-extend-their-lead-at-the-top-of-the-league-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/31\/epl-table-after-arsenal-beat-brighton-to-extend-their-lead-at-the-top-of-the-league-table\/","title":{"rendered":"EPL Table After Arsenal Beat Brighton To Extend Their Lead At The Top Of The League Table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Arsenal faced Brighton and Hove albion in today\u2019s league fixture at the American express stadium. It was a chance for Mikel Arteta\u2019s side to extend their lead at the top of the league table after Manchester City dropped points.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal had a really good game against Brighton. They took the lead in the opening minutes of the first half after Bukayo Saka scored from a loose ball. Bukayo Saka\u2019s fine form continued as he bagged yet another Premier League goal. It was a well built goal from Arsenal. They extended their lead to 2-0 after Martin Odegaard scored.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/b9eef89604344a1285d12eef7bec8fa1\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Martin Odegaard scored a brilliant goal as Arsenal extended their lead to 2-0 in the first half of the match. Martin Odegaard has no doubt been Arsenal\u2019s best player so far this season. The young captain doesn\u2019t fall to deliver in front of goal. Down into the second half of the match, Arsenal extended their lead still further to 3-0 after Edward Nketiah scored.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/c0281d4baa8b40c9aa6cac53646ac4f0\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Brighton and Hove albion pulled one back after Kaoru Mitoma scored a brilliant goal from Pascal Gross\u2019 assist. There was no hope for a come back at this point as Arsenal were completely in control of the match. Gabriel Martinelli extended Arsenal\u2019s lead to 4-1 with Martin Odegaard providing an assist for the goal. Evan Ferguson made it 4-2 for Brighton as they kept pushing to narrow the score line.<\/p>\n<p>Here is how the full Premier League table looks like after Arsenal beat Brighton and Hove albion.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/cb3447e40b944b7990e330d647959bcd\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: RLupdates (via  Opera<br \/>News )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/><span class=\"see-more\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nArsenal<br \/>Edward Nketiah<br \/>Hove<br \/>Kaoru<br \/>Martin Odegaard<br \/><\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal faced Brighton and Hove albion in today\u2019s league fixture at the American express stadium. It was a chance for Mikel Arteta\u2019s side to extend their lead at the top of the league table after Manchester City dropped points. Arsenal had a really good game against Brighton. They took the lead in the opening minutes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1272216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1272215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272215","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=1272215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1272215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1272215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}