Izuchukwu OkosiArsenal required less efforts to keep their title aspirations alive on Monday night as they beat bottom side Sheffield United 6-0 to underline their Premier League title aspirations, Prime Business Africa reports.
Five unanswered first half goals had already made the evening a difficult one for the Blades.
Martin Odegaard began the goals rush when he finished a sweeping move inside the Sheffield penalty area with consumate assurance,
Jayden Bogle inadvertently conceded an own goal before Kai Havertz made it 3-0 before Martin Martinelli and Declan Rice all scored for the 5-0 obliteration in the first half.
Ben White added the gloss to the scoreline in the second half when he received a good pass from Kai Havertz and managed to find the bottom right corner with a left-footed low shot.
Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta introduced Cedric Soares, Gabriel Jesus and Thomas Partey moments after he brought on Fabio Viera for the injured Bukayo Saka.
However Saka was not the only Arsenal injury worry on the night as Gabriel Martinelli went off injured in what poked quite a serious problem on his ankle. He was replaced by Leandro Trossard.
Martinelli’s effort was the 300th Premier League goal Arsenal have scored under Arteta in his 161st top-flight game in charge – only Pep Guardiola (120), Jurgen Klopp (142) and Manuel Pellegrini (149) achieved a treble century in quicker time.
Arsenal thus matched their biggest away win in their league history and broke an English football goalscoring record with the emphatic win.
Arsenal’s team will next face Brentford while Sheffield United take on Bournemouth at the Vitality stadium this weekend.
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.
