The defending champions were made to suffer after the German\u2019s 16th-minute opener but held out for what could be a telling win in their quest to retain the title. <\/p>\n
It marked Arsenal\u2019s 300th away win in the Premier League, which is the second most of all-time.<\/p>\n
Arsenal climbed three points clear of Manchester City at the top of the table. But with City expected to be hit with a severe points penalty, unless they can overturn a guilty verdict on over 100 charges of breaking Premier League rules, Arsenal dealt a huge blow to their most likely rivals for the title. <\/p>\n
Liverpool produced arguably their spell of Andoni Iraola\u2019s early months in charge with a blistering 30 minutes after conceding, but failed to take their chances as the Spaniard suffered just his second defeat in 14 games since arriving from Bournemouth. <\/p>\n
Mikel Arteta was stinging in his criticism of the Arsenal side that crashed out to fourth-tier Fleetwood on Tuesday in one of the biggest ever League Cup shocks. <\/p>\n
The Arsenal boss got the response he desired in a strong start from the champions.<\/p>\n
Havertz was one of the biggest culprits for wasting chances in midweek but made amends with a simple finish from Declan Rice\u2019s precise low cross. <\/p>\n
The early goal lit the touchpaper for a pulsating first 45 minutes as Liverpool roared back.<\/p>\n
Iraola and Arteta played together as boys for Basque side Antiguoko Kirol Elkartea.<\/p>\n
Arteta\u2019s old friend gave his side one of the most uncomfortable afternoons they have experienced in recent seasons as Arsenal\u2019s rock-solid defence was left clinging on for half-time. <\/p>\n
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Arsenal’s Jurrien Timber celebrates after the Gunners downed Liverpool 1-0.Source: AP<\/p>\n
All of Liverpool\u2019s three \u00a3100 million-plus ($134 million) forwards started together and there are signs the relationship between Alexander Isak, Florian Wirtz and Bradley Barcola is beginning to flourish. <\/p>\n
Isak did Arsenal a favour by not going down as he was pulled back by Jurrien Timber when just failing to connect with a wicked delivery from Barcola. <\/p>\n
The visitors still had chances on the counter-attack as Bruno Guimaraes pulled a shot just wide before Timber inadvertently blocked Noni Madueke\u2019s ball across goal with Havertz waiting to apply the finish. <\/p>\n
Up the other end, Wirtz curled a free-kick onto the bar from a narrow angle and Alexis Mac Allister should have buried a headerinto the goal rather than finding the stand behind David Raya\u2019s goal. <\/p>\n
Half-time allowed Arsenal the chance to reset and take the wind out of Liverpool\u2019s sails as Iraola\u2019s men tired in the second period. <\/p>\n
Alisson Becker produced a stunning save to turn behind Christos Tzolis\u2019s shot that was arrowing into the bottom corner to keep Liverpool in the game. <\/p>\n
That intervention counted for little as Arsenal rode out the closing stages to register another clean sheet and an eighthwin in nine league games. <\/p>\n
Defeat leaves fifth-placed Liverpool nine points adrift of the leaders and already facing a mountain to climb to get backin the title race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arsenal moved to the top of the Premier League with their first win away to Liverpool in 14…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":949082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-949081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949081","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=949081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}