{"id":61345,"date":"2014-11-01T18:27:16","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T18:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=61345"},"modified":"2014-11-01T18:27:16","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T18:27:16","slug":"arsenal-beat-winless-burnley-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=61345","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal beat winless Burnley at home"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arsenal recorded a second successive league win for the first time this season as Burnley’s woes continued.<\/p>\n

The Clarets frustrated Arsene Wenger’s side for 70 minutes before the excellent Alexis Sanchez struck with a close-range header.<\/p>\n

Calum Chambers then added his first senior goal from a corner as Burnley’s resistance crumbled.<\/p>\n

Sanchez fired in his second from Kieran Gibbs’s cross to leave Sean Dyche’s side rooted to the bottom of the table.<\/p>\n

The scoreline was harsh on Burnley, who defended manfully for much of the game, but once Arsenal discovered a cutting edge the visitors’ rearguard was left brutally exposed.<\/p>\n

The Gunners had been behind in each of their previous four home league games this season but a repeat of that scenario was never likely against a Burnley side who offered little going forward.<\/p>\n

The hosts dominated possession in the opening exchanges but initially struggled to fashion clear-cut chances.<\/p>\n

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Walcott ends 10-month absence<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
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Theo Walcott came on as a substitute in the 80th minute to make his first appearance since the FA Cup third-round win over Tottenham on 4 January<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

Sanchez was their liveliest attacking outlet and it was he who created their best opportunity of the first period.<\/p>\n

The Chilean played in Danny Welbeck, who skipped past two defenders and beat goalkeeper Tom Heaton only to see his shot come back off Kieran Trippier.<\/p>\n

Heaton was in fine form, parrying well from two rasping Sanchez drives from outside the area.<\/p>\n

However, Burnley’s biggest escape of the first 45 minutes came when George Boyd, who had already been booked, appeared to handle a corner but the offence was not seen by referee Craig Pawson.<\/p>\n

The Clarets continued to hold firm after the interval to raise hopes of an unlikely point but Arsenal’s breakthrough eventually arrived through the irrepressible Sanchez.<\/p>\n

Chambers sent in a fine cross from the right and summer signing Sanchez got above Trippier to power in his ninth goal of the season.<\/p>\n

Burnley’s resistance was broken and Arsenal took just two minutes to add a second.<\/p>\n

The Clarets failed to defend a corner and Chambers bundled home after Heaton had saved from Welbeck.<\/p>\n

After Walcott was introduced, the Burnley keeper continued to impress, brilliantly denying Lukas Podolski.<\/p>\n

But he could do nothing about Sanchez’s second as the visitors slumped to a sixth league defeat.<\/p>\n

\"Alexis<\/p>\n

Burnley keeper Tom Heaton has not kept a clean sheet since the draw with Sunderland on 20 September<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\"Theo<\/p>\n

Theo Walcott made his first appearance since January<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\"Alex<\/p>\n

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain could not add to his one league goal this season<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC Sport<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arsenal recorded a second successive league win for the first time this season as Burnley’s woes continued. The Clarets frustrated Arsene Wenger’s side for 70 minutes before the excellent Alexis Sanchez struck with a close-range header. Calum Chambers then added his first senior goal from a corner as Burnley’s resistance crumbled. Sanchez fired in his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":61346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29,3],"class_list":["post-61345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}