Arsenal Vs Hull City: Score, Recap, Highlights And Analysis

Arsenal returned to domestic action against Hul City winning 4-1. Here is a full recap, highlights and analysis from Saturday’s game.

After successive underwhelming performances, Arsenal travelled to Hull to face the newly promoted side with aspirations of instigating some form of improvement while also continuing their good run of results. Arsene Wenger’s men responded in positive fashion, seeing past the tigers in a relatively comfortable 4-1 win.

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The match started in an open manner – a sign of things to come – and with Hull posing problems on the counter thanks to the impressive range of passing of deep lying midfielder Sam Clucas who was arguably the best player on the pitch, Arsenal were immediately aware of the fraught dangers of being complacent against an underrated Hull side.

The first goal came at an ideal time as, afterwards, the Gunners proceeded to impose their dominance on the match.

The ball was played wide to Theo Walcott, who was dangerous 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. Iwobi sidefooted the volley towards goal, and after taking a flick off the back of Alexis Sanchez’s heel looped into the back of the net.

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The game looked to be set to end soon after, as a Francis Coquelin shot was blocked by Jake Livermore’s hand giving the Gunners a penalty and sending Hull down to ten men. However, with usual penalty taker Santi Cazorla on the pitch, Sanchez stepped up and scuffed a truly terrible effort low to Jakupovic’s left who got down well to steer the ball clear.

The second goal came after the break through some lovely link-up play between Iwobi and Walcott. Theo, driving forward at pace, played the ball into Iwobi’s feet who, with his back to goal, took one touch and then backheeled the ball directly into the path of Walcott who had ran beyond the Hull defence. Theo then delightfully dinked the ball over Jakupovic to seemingly all but end the match.

Hull were refusing to lie down, though, and after only coming on as a substitute to make his debut moments before, Mbokani was tripped by Petr Cech after being clean through, one-on-one. Cech duly received a booking and Robert Snodgrass stepped up to emphatically slam home the resultant spot kick. The revival, though, was short-lived thanks to yet another Sanchez goal, finishing the rebound from Walcott’s first effort, and then Granit Xhaka put the cherry on top with a truly outstanding goal from the best part of 30 yards, thumping it with his left foot past

The revival, though, was short-lived thanks to yet another Sanchez goal, finishing the rebound from Walcott’s first effort, and then Granit Xhaka put the cherry on top with a truly outstanding goal from the best part of 30 yards, thumping it with his left foot past a sprawling Jakupovic.

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It was a decent, if not spectacular, performance from the Gunners. Hull were certainly a credit to themselves and held their own for large parts of the game but ultimately, the superior quality in the final third shone through, with Arsenal now climbing to second in the table, five points behind leaders Manchester City.

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