The English Premier League .. Arsenal boosts its chances in the "European Champions"
Arsenal boosted its chances of participating in the Champions League, with a valuable away victory over Aston Villa 1-0 in the 30th stage of the English Football Championship on Saturday.
Arsenal raised its score in fourth place, the last qualifying for the Champions League, to 54 points, 4 points ahead of Manchester United, the fifth, who played more games.
And the win is the fifth consecutive win for Arsenal outside his stadium for the first time since May 2015, knowing that he aspires to return to the first continental competition for the first time since 2017.
Arsenal thus regained the tone of victories after falling at home to Liverpool 0-2 in the middle of the week in a postponed match , In a match in which the better party was before Liverpool scored two goals in the last 25 minutes.
Arsenal missed their outstanding goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale with a hip injury this season, while young Brazilian striker Gabriel Martinelli did not participate due to his illness, so he replaced them with German Bernard Leno and Emile Smith Rowe in the starting lineup.
Arsenal was the better party in the first half and had more than a good chance to open the scoring, most notably a shot from Ghanaian Thomas Partey after a quick counter-attack at the hands of former Arsenal goalkeeper Emiliano Martins (8).
Martinez intervened shortly afterwards when he saved his own goal from an own goal by fellow defender Arzi Konsa.
Arsenal managed to open the scoring through a creeping shot by its international wing, Bukayo Saka, after a frenzy inside the area (30).
On the other hand, Aston Villa did not succeed in hitting any ball between the three woods in the first half.
Aston Villa's performance improved in the second half, but their attackers did not test Leno much. Indeed, Saka almost added the second goal when he fired a powerful ball that passed to the right post of Villa (60).
And the first chance for Aston Villa came in this half when the Scotsman John McGinn hit a ball that hit the bottom of the left post for Arsenal (68).
Aston Villa coach and Liverpool legend Steven Gerrard included Danny Ings instead of Ole Watkins in the front line and almost scored from his first chance when he hit a header that fell into the net from above (84).
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