
Premier League: Arsenal Make Liverpool Wait For Title Party, Chelsea Beat Fulham
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Arsenal made sure Liverpool cannot secure the Premier League title on Sunday by cruising to a 4-0 victory at 10-man Ipswich, while Chelsea beat Fulham 2-1 to climb into the Champions League places.
Arsenal made sure Liverpool cannot secure the Premier League title on Sunday by cruising to a 4-0 victory at 10-man Ipswich, while Chelsea beat Fulham 2-1 to climb into the Champions League places. Manchester United suffered a hangover from their Europa League heroics against Lyon as Wolves won 1-0 at Old Trafford to secure survival. Liverpool needed both an Arsenal defeat and to beat Leicester later on Sunday to seal a record-equalling 20th English top-flight title. Defeat realistically ends Ipswich's hope of maintaining their Premier League status as they are 15 points adrift of safety with five games remaining and have a significantly poorer goal difference than West Ham.
Fresh from a famous victory over Real Madrid in the Santiago Bernabeu to reach the Champions League semi-finals for the first time since 2009, Arsenal coasted towards securing a return to European football's elite competition again next season.
Mikel Arteta made only three changes from the 2-1 win in the Spanish capital on Wednesday and was rewarded with a dominant display to kill the game off inside half an hour.
Leandro Trossard was one of those recalled by Arteta and prodded in his eighth goal of the season to open the scoring.
A flowing move saw Bukayo Saka's cross flicked by Mikel Merino into the path of Gabriel Martinelli to finish to double the Gunners lead.
Moments later, Saka was chopped down by an awful challenge from Leif Davis that saw the Ipswich left-back shown a straight red card.