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Arsenal lose 2-1 at home to Bournemouth as Premier League lead remains at 9 points but Man City have two games in hand.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Published On 11 Apr 2026<\/span>11 Apr 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Bournemouth\u2019s Alex Scott \u200cthrew the Premier League title race wide open with the winning goal as his \u2060side beat leaders \u2060Arsenal 2-1 at The Emirates.<\/p>\n Midfielder Scott produced a cool finish after a neat build-up in the 74th minute to stun the nervous-looking hosts on Saturday and \u2060provide a huge boost for chasers Manchester City.<\/p>\n list of 4 items<\/span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n Defeat left a labouring Arsenal still with a seemingly commanding nine-point lead over City but Pep Guardiola\u2019s side have played two games fewer and \u2060can close the gap if they beat Chelsea on Sunday. Arsenal\u2019s first defeat in nine league games means they have 70 points from 32 games to City\u2019s 61 from 30. City also have the incentive of hosting Arsenal next weekend.<\/p>\n Bournemouth were the better side in the first half and took \u200cthe lead when Eli Junior Kroupi turned in a deflected cross at the far post in the 17th minute. Kroupi has now scored 10 times in the top flight this season \u2013 the first teenager to reach that mark in his debut campaign in the Premier League since Robbie Keane for Coventry City in the 1999-2000 season.<\/p>\n Arsenal\u2019s response was lacklustre, and they looked bereft of attacking spark as the home crowd grew frustrated.<\/p>\n Mikel Arteta\u2019s side got \u2060a helping hand when Bournemouth\u2019s Ryan Christie was adjudged to have \u2060blocked a ball into the area with his arm, allowing Viktor Gyokeres to equalise from the spot in the 35th minute.<\/p>\n Arsenal huffed and puffed looking for a winner, but it was Bournemouth who provided the twist as they moved \u2060into ninth place and in contention for a European qualifying spot. Arsenal began the game on a four-match winning run in the Premier \u2060League, and had they made it five to move 12 \u2060points ahead of City, they would have surely been on the cusp of a first English title since 2004.<\/p>\n They had not been in league action for almost a month, though, and in that time they had suffered a League Cup \u200cfinal defeat by City and a shock FA Cup quarterfinal exit at the hands of second-tier Southampton.<\/p>\n A steadying 1-0 victory against Sporting this week in the Champions League quarterfinal first leg should \u200chave \u200cpaved the way for a commanding display against Bournemouth.<\/p>\n But they can have no complaints against an agile side that played on Arsenal\u2019s nerves with their clever brand of football.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Arsenal lose 2-1 at home to Bournemouth as Premier League lead remains at 9 points but Man City have two games in hand. Published On 11 Apr 202611 Apr 2026 Bournemouth\u2019s Alex Scott \u200cthrew the Premier League title race wide open with the winning goal as his \u2060side beat leaders \u2060Arsenal 2-1 at The Emirates. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Recommended Stories <\/h2>\n
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