ARSENAL suffered a damaging defeat to Burnley at home in the Premier League thanks to a late Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang own goal.
Granit Xhaka was also sent off as pressure further heaped itself on manager Mikel Arteta.
- RESULT: Arsenal 0-1 Burnley
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GOODNIGHT FROM THE EMIRATES
It’s become a familiar Sunday night feeling for Arsenal fans.
For the fourth consecutive home game, the Gunners have been defeated in the final game of the weekend to increase the pressure on Mikel Arteta.
After Leicester, Aston Villa and Wolves before them, this time it was Burnley who pitched up at the Emirates and left with three points – for the first time since 1974.
A game short on confidence and skill turned on a ridiculous sending off just before the hour mark.
Having fouled Dwight McNeil, Granit Xhaka took exception to the reaction of the Burnley players, and retaliated by throwing Ashley Westwood to the floor by the neck.
It then went from bad to worse. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang broke his goalscoring duck – but at the wrong end; the Arsenal captain heading Westwood’s corner into his own net as the Gunners conceded from a set-piece for the first time this season.
The result lifts the Clarets out of the bottom three, and just four points behind their illustrious opponents. If Burnley are in a relegation battle, then so are Arsenal.
As Sean Dyche praised his players at full time, Arteta cut a forlorn figure.
This is the first time since 1959 that the north London club have lost four consecutive home games, and it is now their worst start to a season for 45 years.
The Arsenal manager says he will continue to work hard and scratch his head. For how much longer is anyone’s guess.
GUNNERS SHOT DOWN
Oscar Paul has savaged the Arsenal players after a fourth consecutive home defeat. Read his player ratings to see who scored just one out of ten.
You can probably guess.
DYCHE DELIGHTED
A proud Sean Dyche has been speaking post-match about his side’s first win at Arsenal since 1974:
“It’s pleasing. We’ve had to work for it and fight for everything. It’s not easy against ten men.
“They had a good reaction with ten men, and it gave them a cause. They seemed to raise themselves for the next 10-15 minutes. We saw ourselves through that period.
We got a bit of luck with the goal, but sometimes you need that at a place like this.
Sean Dyche
ARTETA REACTION
A clearly disappointed Mikel Arteta has fronted up for the cameras, and rued the sending off of Granit Xhaka as having cost his side the game.
“You saw the performance of the boys. How much they wanted it, the way they played, the chances we created and the dominance we had throughout the game.
“Again, we throw a game away by giving away a silly red card and we’ve lost the game.
“You saw what happened the other 60-70 minutes, we had total control of the game and we should have won it.
“In this condition, it’s even worse [than Pepe’s sending off at Leeds]. The condition we are in, not winning football matches, you cannot do that.
We were on top from the beginning of the game to the moment we had a player sent off.
Mikel Arteta
HAPPY PLACE
With tonight’s victory, Burnley moved out of the relegation zone at the expense of Fulham. The Clarets are in a happy place this evening.
PATRICE PUTS THE BOOT IN
In the Sky Sports studio, pundit Patrice Evra hasn’t held back in his stinging criticism of Arsenal – and not for the first time this season.
Thierry Henry, one day he invited me to his house to watch the Arsenal game. He turned on the television, and the first image he saw on the screen was [Granit] Xhaka leading out Arsenal. Thierry Henry turned off the TV and said ‘I can’t watch my team with Xhaka being the captain.’
Patrice Evra
BURNLEY BUZZING
Burnley midfielder Ashley Westwood has been speaking post-match about his side’s first ever away win at Arsenal in the Premier League, and the sending off that gave them a second half advantage.
“The lads are buzzing in there, but it’s been coming. We’ve been beaten here in the last minute and last season we lost 3-1 but it wasn’t a 3-1 game.
“We knew if we started well, we’d put them under pressure. We knew it was coming and we managed to get there in the end.
Sometimes [a sending off] can go in their favour, as they have something to work for. We could hear them shouting that they’d done it at Leeds. We knew we had to keep switching the ball and we got there in the end.
Ashley Westwood
“Playing against ten men, we’ve got that advantage and we made it pay from a set-piece.”
I DON’T LIKE SUNDAYS
Co-incidentally, those four home defeats have all occurred in the Sunday evening 7.15pm slot.
Hopefully, most Arsenal fans are working from home and don’t have to go into an office on the Monday morning.
NIGHTMARE IN NORTH LONDON
Leicester, Aston Villa, Wolverhampton Wanderers and now Burnley.
FT: ARSENAL 0-1 BURNLEY
Desperate times for Arsenal! But brilliant for Burnley! Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang finally scores at the Emirates, but his headed own-goal gives Burnley their first win at Arsenal since 1974.
PEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!
THE FINAL WHISTLE GOES!ARSENAL 0-1 BURNLEY
90+6. Off the line!
Brady is in the right place to boot away a final header with the last kick of the game.
ARSENAL 0-1 BURNLEY
90+5. Ceballos’ cross is headed behind for an Arsenal corner.
Last chance for Arsenal and Leno has come up for it…
ARSENAL 0-1 BURNLEY
90+4. Pope rushes out to take charge of a lofted free-kick into the box, and takes out two players and the ball with one punch.
Gabriel recovers to get a soft header once the attack is recycled but Tarkowski stays down – and eats up a few more seconds of injury time.
ARSENAL 0-1 BURNLEY
90+2. A half-chance for Nketiah!
The substitute gets a foot on Holding’s wayward shot, but is unable to bring it under control.
If he had, he was unmarked and ten yards from goal.
ARSENAL 0-1 BURNLEY
90. The board goes up to signal five minutes of stoppage time, and draws something of a murmur of encouragement from the home fans.
ARSENAL 0-1 BURNLEY
88. Aubameyang has a momentary sight of redemption.
The Arsenal forward controls a ball that drops to him on the far post, cuts back on to his right foot, but is unbalanced by the presence of Lowton.
No shot, and definitely no penalty.
ARSENAL 0-1 BURNLEY
86. Tarkowski puts his body on the line once again, throwing himself in front of a Saka shot after the youngster had cut in dangerously from the right.
Both players involved have been very good tonight, arguably their team’s best players.
ARSENAL 0-1 BURNLEY
83. There’s absolutely no doubting that the sending off has swung this game in Burnley’s favour as Pope easily claims another wasted Arsenal cross.
ARSENAL 0-1 BURNLEY
81. By going behind from that Burnley corner, Arsenal concede a goal from a set-piece for the first time this season.
Mikel Arteta throws on Eddie Nketiah for the final ten minutes with the striker replacing Willian.
ARSENAL 0-1 BURNLEY
80. At Goodison Park, Selhurst Park and Craven Cottage this week, the presence of 2,000 fans has sounded like 25,000.
I’m pretty sure the Emirates is quieter than it’s been for the last six months.
ARSENAL 0-1 BURNLEY
76. The visitors nearly add a second but Taylor’s snapshot is deflected wide for a corner.
ARSENAL 0-1 BURNLEY
75. Another substitution for Arsenal as Maitland-Niles replaces Bellerin.
On the touchline, Mikel Arteta looks a beaten man.
ARSENAL 0-1 BURNLEY
73. Astonishing!
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang finally has a goal at the Emirates, but it’s at the wrong end!
Ashley Westwood’s corner from the left caused havoc, Josh Brownhill got the slightest of touches and the ball span off the head of the Arsenal captain to find the far corner.
The home side have it all to do now with ten men..
GOOOOOOOOOAAAAAALLL!!
AUBAMEYANG HEADS INTO HIS OWN NET!!
CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?!
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
