Eddie Nketiah scored a late winner Sunday evening as Arsenal beat Manchester United in a five-goal thriller to keep their Premier League title aspirations alive.
The north London side now has 50 points from 19 matches, the highest in their Premier League history, five points more than the Invisibles achieved in the 2003/2004 season, the last time the club won the title.
The England striker of Ghanaian heritage had cancelled a Marcus Rashford goal after eight minutes and it ended 1-1 at half time.
In the 53rd minute, Anglo-Nigerian superstar, Bukayo Saka, produced a top-drawer finish to put Arsenal ahead but quite remarkably, United Redford restored parity just after eight minutes again with a stooping header.
Nketiah however grabbed a late goal for the Gunners late on when he steered home the ball a wayward Martin Odegaard shot.
“You can see how much it means to everyone. They’re the only team that has beaten us this season so we really wanted to beat them for the fans,” Saka told Sky Sports.
“It wasn’t easy and it definitely wasn’t our best start to the game but we showed a lot of character to come back and get the win.”
Arsenal has made their best ever start to a Premier League season and Saka added: “That’s really significant. It’s something we can be proud of but we have to stay humble. It’s only halfway through the season and things can change very quickly.
“But if we keep playing like we have then we’ll be in a good place at the end of the season, we just have to keep it up.”
Arsenal will next weekend face Manchester City in the FA Cup fourth round, then return to Premier League duties in the following week to play against Everton.
The defending champions will also have a date with Mikel Arteta’s side in April.
Izuchukwu OkosiIzuchukwu 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.