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Eddie Nketiah's early double and Luke Ayling's red card let Jesse Marsch's relegation-threatened side with too much to do.

51 min Leeds are hell-bent on damage limitation, gathering everyone behind the ball in a 4-3-2 formation. 55 min Leeds manage half a minute of possession and win a couple of free kicks, but it’s all in their own half. 57 min Four corners in a row for Arsenal, who stand third behind Man City and Liverpool in the goals-from-corners table this season. Everton are still 2-1 up at Leicester, against the run of their whole season. Leeds get their first corner, there’s a neat flick-on and Diego Llorente is there, unmarked at the far post, to cash in with a crisp shot. Guess which of them is in the rock-star shades. Leeds are on 34 points, the same as Burnley, but are in effect a point behind because their goal difference is awful (-35) while Burnley’s is not too bad (-17). Both of them have three games to go while Everton have four. A Leeds defender tidies up on the halfway line. On the hour, Marsch plays his final card: Raphinha off, in case his yellow card turns red, and Rodrigo on. 69 min Leeds are now playing with a bit of belief. Poor old Leeds sink into the bottom three – but since going down to ten men in the 27th minute, they’ve actually won this game 1-0. So Everton are a point ahead of both Burnley and Leeds, with a game in hand.

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Ayling is likely to receive a three-game ban and therefore his season could be over. Then the accident happened when we conceded a set-piece goal and then some nerves had to be handled." They gift-wrapped the opening goal for Nketiah as Meslier took a laboured touch in dealing with Luke Ayling's back-pass. Substitute Nicolas Pepe failed to get his head up to see an open goal with goalkeeper Illan Meslier up for a corner in a frantic denouement, a moment which served as a metaphor for the lack of game management that almost cost them dearly. "But I didn't see any of that at the start of the game. The catalyst for Arsenal's revival this season has come from a cluster of young players seizing their opportunity to try to redefine modern-day Arsenal: Bukayo Saka is the poster boy, but Martin Odegaard, Emile Smith Rowe and Aaron Ramsdale are among those who've contributed this term beyond initial expectations.

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Things went from bad to worse for Leeds when Ayling was shown a straight red card for a reckless two-footed challenge on Martinelli after a VAR check upgraded the yellow originally shown by referee Chris Kavanagh. Nketiah, who spent some time on loan at Leeds in 2019-2020, doubled Arsenal's lead on 10 minutes, diverting a Gabriel Martinelli cross into the goal to become the first Arsenal player to score twice within the opening 10 minutes of a Premier League game for 20 years. Arsenal got off to a dream start when Eddie Nketiah netted twice within the opening 10 minutes, before Leeds went down to 10 men when captain Luke Ayling was shown a straight red following a VAR check just before the 30 minute mark.

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"When you see that he’s got an empty net in front of him and he’s taking a touch backwards, we cannot really understand", the Spaniard said. And fortunately, we didn’t need that goal." However, he opted to cut back onto his favoured left foot and was dispossessed in the process, frustrating assistant coach Stuivenburg in the process.

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Then the accident happened when we conceded a set-piece goal and then some nerves had to be handled.” “After that the red card presented a different match. “It was just to try to play the game that we have to in that phase,” he said.

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Read the full story here. "This boy doesn’t change, that’s why we absolutely adore him & he deserves what is happening to him." Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta has claimed that everyone at the club loves contract rebel Eddie Nketiah following the Englishman's brace against Leeds United yesterday.

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If Arsenal are to get a result, they have to find a way of stopping Harry Kane and Son Heung-min. Do that, and Arsenal will win the match. We will play against Spurs with the same attitude. “You have to score the third and fourth, when you are there you have to be that ruthless team,” Arteta said.

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has said that he was not happy with winger Nicolas Pepe against Leeds United at the Emirates Stadium.

The winger could not really make a huge impact on the game after he came on, and we can understand why Arteta does not use him regularly from the start. Pepe did not start the match, but the 26-year-old winger came on as a substitute midway through the second half. Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has told the club’s official website that he was not happy with winger Nicolas Pepe against Leeds United at the Emirates Stadium.