{"id":77860,"date":"2025-11-01T20:50:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T20:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77860"},"modified":"2025-11-01T20:50:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T20:50:21","slug":"epl-gyokeres-rice-fire-arsenal-to-2-0-win-over-burnley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/01\/epl-gyokeres-rice-fire-arsenal-to-2-0-win-over-burnley\/","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Gy\u00f6keres, Rice Fire Arsenal to 2\u20130 Win Over Burnley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Viktor Gy\u00f6keres ended his Premier League goal drought as Arsenal defeated Burnley 2\u20130 on Saturday to move seven points clear at the top of the table.<\/p>\n<p>The Swedish striker opened the scoring with a close-range header before Declan Rice doubled the lead before half-time at Turf Moor, sealing Arsenal\u2019s ninth straight win in all competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Gy\u00f6keres\u2019 goal his first league strike since September 13 and sixth in all competitions since joining from Sporting Lisbon in the summer came after a run of five Premier League games without scoring.<\/p>\n<p>The result reinforced Arsenal\u2019s dominance this season, as Mikel Arteta\u2019s side have now gone seven matches without conceding in all competitions and have won eight of their opening 10 league fixtures. The victory extends the Gunners\u2019 pursuit of their first league title since 2004 and their first silverware since lifting the FA Cup in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Despite pre-season doubts about Arteta\u2019s ability to mount another title challenge, Arsenal have capitalized on Liverpool\u2019s struggles to establish a strong early lead in the title race. They now face a demanding stretch of seven games in 22 days, with a Champions League trip to Slavia Prague next on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal\u2019s set-piece expertise once again proved decisive. Rice\u2019s corner in the 14th minute was headed down by Gabriel Magalh\u00e3es for Gy\u00f6keres to finish clinically, marking the Gunners\u2019 eighth goal from a corner this season the highest ever by any team in their first 10 Premier League matches.<\/p>\n<p>Burnley struggled to cope with Arsenal\u2019s aerial dominance and relentless pressure. Rice made it 2\u20130 in the 35th minute, heading home Leandro Trossard\u2019s chipped cross. Despite Gy\u00f6keres being substituted at half-time due to fitness concerns, Arsenal maintained full control, limiting Burnley to no shots in the first hour and cruising to a comfortable\u00a0win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata &nbsp; Viktor Gy\u00f6keres ended his Premier League goal drought as Arsenal defeated Burnley 2\u20130 on Saturday to move seven points clear at the top of the table. The Swedish striker opened the scoring with a close-range header before Declan Rice doubled the lead before half-time at Turf Moor, sealing Arsenal\u2019s ninth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77862,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77860\/revisions\/77862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}