Izuchukwu OkosiArsenal hosted and defeated Bournemouth 3-0 at Emirates stadium in the early kickoff on Saturday afternoon to go four points clear in the Premier League table, reports Prime Business Africa.
The Gunners knew a win is a given as nearest title challengers and current champions Manchester City play later in the evening.
Bukayo Saka, Leandro Trossard and Declan Rice were on the scoresheet for the home side.
Arsenal started the game on the back of an impressive north London derby win against London rivals Tottenham Hotspur.
The lineup was unchanged from the side that took on the team coached by Ange Postecoglu whose job could be on the line.
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Mikel Arteta’s side missed several clear cut scoring chances in the first half but eventually broke the deadlock when Kai havertz latched onto a through pass by Martin Odegaard and brought down by the onrushing Bournemouth keeper, Marc Tavers.
The game was halted for several minutes for VAR checks and a penalty was ultimately awarded which Anglo-Nigerian, Saka, dispatched from the spot for his sixth goal from 12 yards.
Trossard made it 2-0 in the 70th minute when he was teed off by Man-of-the-Match, Declan Rice.
Rice then made victory certain in added time as the north London giants have now chalked up 83 points.
The Gunners paid tribute to 14-year-old British-Nigerian boy, Daniel Anjorin who was recently murdered in a knife attack in the UK.
City will seek to pile the pressure as they face Wolverhampton Wanderers as they seek to pile the pressure.
Kick off is 5.30pm Nigerian time.
Izuchukwu Okosi is a Nigerian sports and entertainment journalist with two decades of experience in the media industry having begun his media journey in 2002 as an intern at Mundial Sports International (MSI) and Africa Independent Television (AIT), owners of Daar Communications Plc.
In October 2004, Okosi joined Complete Communications Limited, publishers of Complete Sports newspaper and Complete Football magazine as a reporter and later script writer for the Complete Sports studio.
He worked there for 13 years until October 2017.
Okosi also worked various times as Correspondent, Content creator and Editor at Sports Market International Magazine, Opera News, All Nigeria Soccer Media and Iconic Media Watch.
He also undertook freelance writing gigs for some local and international organizations.
Okosi is a member of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Association of Movie Producers (AMP), Association of Voiceover Artistes of Nigeria (AVOA), Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) and Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ).
He has been part of cast in some Nollywood movies and radio dramas including Blood Money 2, Scores To Settle, Dead End 2, Another Campus Tale and Battle Line.
Aside mainstream media and the entertainment industry, he has interests in scouting/unearthing of talents in the sports and creative sectors, exports business and property development.
