Julio Enciso scored Brighton’s first before Denis Undav and Pervis Estupiñán made sure of the points as they beat Arsenal 3-0 to all but end their title dreams
It is surely over bar the shouting. There was plenty of that, in increasingly desperate measure from the Arsenal support but, with their team falling short, it feels safe to say that Manchester City are about to be crowned as theArsenal have given it a heck of a roll and it seems like a trick of the mind that many people did not think they would finish in the top four before the start of the campaign.
There would be eight additional minutes but no prospect of an Arsenal comeback. Instead, Brighton salted the wounds, Pervis Estupiñán scoring the third after Ramsdale had weakly parried an Undav shot. This time De Zerbi went for a knee slide on the pitch. A Champions League place will probably prove beyond Brighton, the Europa League more likely, but the finest season in their history just keeps on giving.
Arsenal wanted to stop Brighton from playing out from the back, to pinch the ball high up, and a good deal of the jeopardy came in Brighton’s first third when they were in possession, the game shaped by what they did or did not do with the ball. Arsenal forced errors from their opponents – and in dangerous areas, too – but Brighton stuck to their guns, some of their build-up play so easy on the eye; the reward always worth the risk, in the eyes of De Zerbi.
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