(Football news) The Seagulls defeated Tottenham Hotspur 4-2, putting on an attacking clinic, while the Irons crushed Arsenal’s title hopes with a 2-0 victory over the Gunners on Thursday.
David Moyes had attempted twenty-two times to orchestrate an away victory over Arsenal, but on Thursday the West Ham manager overcame his old student Mikel Arteta, as the Irons produced what was maybe one of their best defensive performances since playing under the Scotsman’s guidance.
In the second half, former Gunner Dinos Mavropanos climbed highest to double his new club’s advantage before Tomas Soucek tapped home after Jarrod Bowen was ruled to have kept the ball in play, leaving Arsenal to lament a perplexing line call for the second time in two months.
In spite of giving up 77 touches within their own penalty area to Arsenal—a Premier League record for a team without a goal—West Ham provided Alphonse Areola with outstanding cover for the whole ninety minutes to win their third straight top flight game.
West Ham is currently in sixth place in the table, ahead of Manchester United due to the Red Devils’ inability to take a point off of Nottingham Forest. The team also shut out Wolverhampton Wanderers and Manchester United during a memorable December that saw five-goal crushing defeats to Fulham and Liverpool seem insignificant.
Moyes’s team might potentially make history on Tuesday as they want to win four straight games while keeping four clean sheets in a single season for the first time since 1994. Additionally, they have only allowed goals in one Premier League home game all of 2023.
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