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Arsenal: Alexis Sanchez Is The Premier League’s Gleaming Star
Alexis Sanchez went top of the Premier League goalscoring charts on Saturday. The Arsenal striker is the gleaming star of English football.
The Premier League is an excellent competition. While the top clubs, the likes of Arsenal, Chelsea and the Manchester powerhouses, may not match the qualities of Bayern Munich or Real Madrid or Barcelona, the competitive nature, the excitement, the twists and the turns are unlike any other European league.
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There is the threat of relegation into the dark waters of the Championship, there is the cold, wet, rainy night in Stoke and the crisp, Spring football in a lightly sun-lit White Hart Lane. It is a wonderful league blessed with some wonderful players.
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Some of the greatest of these players ply their trade at the Emirates. Laurent Koscielny, Mesut Ozil, Hector Bellerin. But none compare to the winger-turned-striker Chilean that is currently spearheading the attack with a vicious blend of dynamic movement, ruthless finishing and relentless pressing.
Alexis Sanchez took his Premier League goals tally to 17 on Saturday, scoring both goals in the nervy 2-0 win over Hull City. The first was a bundled effort, smothering the parry of Eldin Jakupović and deflecting the ball over the line with a stray arm, leading some to suggest that it should not have counted. The second was another calmly taken penalty, slotting home with Jakupovic diving the wrong way.
In a game in which Arsenal struggled to engineer clear-cut goalscoring opportunities, with Mesut Ozil toiling in midfield and Alex Iwobi failing to protect the ball throughout the 90 minutes, it was Sanchez who provided the team with the spark that it needed in the final third. He was relentlessly trying to create opportunities, always demanding the ball, attempting to pry open a tightly packed Hull defence.
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There have been many great players at their peak this season. Diego Costa and Eden Hazard at Chelsea, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Kevin de Bruyne in Manchester, Philippe Coutinho in Liverpool. But greater than all of them has been Sanchez. He is the Premier League’s gleaming star.