{"id":225819,"date":"2026-01-03T20:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/225819\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T20:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:38:08","slug":"bournemouth-2-3-arsenal-declan-rice-scores-twice-in-gunners-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/225819\/","title":{"rendered":"Bournemouth 2-3 Arsenal: Declan Rice scores twice in Gunners victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Declan Rice scored twice as Premier League leaders Arsenal came from behind to beat Bournemouth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gunners centre-back Gabriel played a blind pass across his box to gift Evanilson the opening goal for the Cherries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But he made up for that with the equaliser as he lashed in a rebound after Gabriel Martinelli&#8217;s shot had been blocked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bournemouth had chances to go ahead but Rice&#8217;s shot from the edge of the box, from Martin Odegaard&#8217;s lay-off, gave Arsenal the lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The England midfielder, back from a knee injury, netted again following a cutback by substitute Bukayo Saka.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Teenager Eli Junior Kroupi gave Bournemouth renewed hope with a fine strike from outside the area &#8211; but they could not find a leveller.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Antoine Semenyo, playing perhaps his final game for Bournemouth before a \u00a365m move to Manchester City, was quiet throughout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The victory takes Mikel Arteta&#8217;s team six points clear of second-placed Aston Villa, although Manchester City can close the gap back to four points when they host managerless Chelsea on Sunday (17:30 GMT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Declan Rice scored twice as Premier League leaders Arsenal came from behind to beat Bournemouth. Gunners centre-back Gabriel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-225819","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}