Arsenal tame 10-man Tigers 4-1 for third straight win

The Chile forward rescued a point for Arsenal in the Champions League in midweek with a late equalizer at Paris Saint-Germain, and was back on the scoresheet with goals in each half at KCOM Stadium.

Piers Morgan has taken to social media to tweet his delight as Arsenal made it back to back wins in the Premier League with an impressive 4-1 win over 10-man Hull City on Saturday afternoon. – Alexis Sanchez has been involved in eight goals in his five games against Hull in all competitions (6 goals, 2 assists).

Sanchez put Arsenal ahead after 17 minutes, deflecting the ball home after a Theo Walcott shot was pushed into the path of Alex Iwobi, before the hosts had Jake Livermore sent off for handball.

“Our own mistakes caused the problems, giving the ball away for the third and fourth goals”. – However, Sanchez’s penalty miss means he’s the only Arsenal player to take more than one Premier League penalty and fail to score with any of them (also missing against QPR in December 2014).

Hull’s Robert Snodgrass pulled a goal back from the penalty spot, but Sanchez calmed any jitters in the Arsenal ranks when he rifled high into the net and Granit Xhaka rounded off the scoring with bullet finish from distance in stoppage time.

“If Mike Phelan keeps this team up he will have done a brilliant job”.

Francis Coquelin and Tom Huddleston.

The ball was played wide to Theo Walcott, who was risky throughout back in the starting lineup, and then Theo whipped in a low cross that found its way through to Alex Iwobi after Eldin Jakupovic poorly parried away the ball in.

Arsenal should have doubled their advantage after 28 minutes but Jakupovic produced a stunning save to deny Mesut OZil, before Iwobi fired over from the rebound.

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The applause made way for boos at half-time as fans made their anger clear to the officials.

Walcott followed his run after playing the ball to Iwobi, who superbly flicked on for the England worldwide to clip home.

The home side kept fighting and Ahmed Elmohamady floated a shot just wide before substitute Dieumerci Mbokani – making his Hull debut – was brought down by Petr Cech in the penalty area.

Referee East allowed play to continue but eventually pointed to the spot, with Snodgrass firing home emphatically. Taking aim from 30 yards, the Swiss midfielder’s thumping left-footed effort beat Jakupovic.