Arsenal saw all of their hard work this season crumble before their eyes as West Ham dashed any hopes of a Premier League title.
Jarrod Bowen’s goal on the stroke of half time ensured that West Ham left the Emirates Stadium with three points for the second successive season and ended Arsenal’s title dreams.
The Premier League have explained Myles Lewis-Skelly’s red card as the Gunners went down to ten men yet again in the second half.
Riccardo Calafiori was abysmal in the Arsenal player ratings and Lewis-Skelly wasn’t much better after coming on as a substitute to be dispossessed by the best player on the pitch and a man Mikel Arteta should have brought to the club.
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Mohammed Kudus shines for West Ham amid Arsenal transfer regret
Mohammed Kudus is a player Arsenal really like and yet the club decided not to make their move for the West Ham winger in January despite Arsenal’s injury crisis this season.
Kudus was superb in West Ham’s victory and forced the error from Lewis-Skelly in the moment that led to the youngster’s dismissal with around twenty minutes to go in the game.
The West Ham forward has completed the most take-ons in the Premier League this season and the ability to beat a man and make something happen was painfully missing from the Arsenal side in the defeat to Kudus’s side.
Arteta will now be regretting his decision to not sign the Ghana international in January, although Kudus has a £85m release clause in the summer.
Arteta on lifting the Arsenal dressing room following defeat to West Ham
Speaking at his post-match press conference following Arsenal’s defeat to West Ham, Arteta has been explaining how he now picks up his side to go again at Nottingham Forest.
Arteta stated: “Yeah, very disappointed, obviously very angry as well. I think you have to congratulate West Ham for the victory and the game that they played.
“But as well I think a lot from our side that we never got right and they didn’t allow us to get enough momentum, enough sequence of play with positive action that could deliver into situations of threat for them.”
How Arteta must wish that he had someone of Kudus’s ball carrying ability to help them get over the line in what will be an extremely tough trip to the City Ground for the Gunners.
It is just another regret for Arsenal in a season full of them both on and off the pitch. The club will need to dust themselves down and get ready to go again.
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