West Ham United won the London derby, which brought it together with its host and neighbor Arsenal, and prevented it from regaining the top of the English Premier League table, after defeating it by two unanswered goals, in the 19th stage of the competition.
West Ham scores the first goal against Arsenal through Tomas Soucek after great work from the Hammers 🔥⚒️pic.twitter.com/HxREOy4Hcv
— EPL World (@EPLworld) December 28, 2023
Czech Tomas Soucek opened the scoring for West Ham with a controversial goal in the 13th minute, before his Greek colleague Konstantinos Mavropanos added the second goal in the 55th minute.
Algerian Saeed Benrahma missed a penalty kick for West Ham in the fifth minute of stoppage time in the second half.
West Ham, which achieved its tenth victory in the championship during the current season and the third in a row, rose to 33 points, moving it to sixth place in the championship standings.
Mavropanos scores against his former team #Arsenal He refuses to celebrate
West Ham leads 2-0 at Emirates Stadium 🔥 pic.twitter.com/pm0HIkhEEL
— 90+ (@90PlusKora) December 28, 2023
On the other hand, Arsenal, which suffered its third loss in the competition this season, stopped at 40 points in second place, two points behind Liverpool (the leaders).
Brighton stuns Tottenham
In turn, Brighton honored and benefited its guest, Tottenham, when it defeated them 4-2 on Thursday at the Falmer Stadium in Brighton.
Jack Henshilwood (11), Brazilian Joao Pedro (25 and 76 from two penalty kicks), and Ecuadorian Pervis Estupinyan (63) scored Brighton’s goals, and Argentine Alejo Felice (81) and Welshman Ben Davies (86) scored Tottenham’s goals.
After 4 goals against Tottenham, he scores an honorable goal against Brighton#English Premier League #Brighton_Tottenham pic.twitter.com/feurAXC38f
— beIN SPORTS (@beINSPORTS) December 28, 2023
Brighton killed two birds with one stone by regaining the winning tone after two draws and a loss, braking the London team and preventing it from regaining fourth place from Manchester City.
Tottenham’s score froze at 36 points and fell to fifth place, while Brighton raised its score to 30 points and rose to seventh place temporarily.
