reports suggest Guardiola will leave City<\/a> after a decorated decade in charge after Villa visit the Etihad on Sunday. <\/p>\nArsenal’s Kai Havertz celebrates. AP Photo\/Kirsty WigglesworthSource: AP<\/p>\n
Roared on by an expectant capacity crowd in their final home game of the season, Arsenal were tipped to put the Clarets to the sword with ease. <\/p>\n
Burnley have taken just two points from their last 10 matches but made Mikel Arteta\u2019s men work for the three points on another nervy night at the Emirates. <\/p>\n
Leandro Trossard struck the post from the edge of the area before Bukayo Saka saw a penalty appeal waived away as he attempted to turn in Havertz\u2019s low cross. <\/p>\n
Arsenal were forced to rely on their set piece threat once more to prise Burnley open. <\/p>\n
Havertz rose highest to power in Saka\u2019s delivery on 37 minutes as they scored from a corner for the 18th time in the league this season. <\/p>\n
Yet the floodgates did not open and Arsenal were very fortunate not to have to defend their lead with 10 men for the final quarter. <\/p>\n
Havertz raked his studs down the calf of Lesley Ugochukwu in a mistimed challenge.<\/p>\n
Despite a VAR review, the original decision of a yellow card was not upgraded to red.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a horrible one, it\u2019s vicious from Havertz,\u201d Manchester United Gary Neville said on Sky Sports commentary.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think this is a red. There\u2019s no way you\u2019re getting the ball, you can only hurt the player there.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think (the VAR call is) right – he\u2019s a lucky boy. I\u2019d get him off the pitch straight away.\u201d<\/p>\n
Havertz was quickly replaced by Viktor Gyokeres. The Swede\u2019s arrival failed to kickstart Arsenal as an attacking force. <\/p>\n
But their rock solid defensive record again edged them closer to the title. Since losing to City last month, Arsenal have not conceded in their last four league games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arsenal is on the brink of ending a 22-year wait to win the Premier League after beating Burnley…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,85,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-679707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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