Saka Scores in Arsenal Victoire on the return of an injury; The UTD man undergoes another defeat thanks to the objective of the wonders of Elaga – Firstpost

London: Bukayo Saka held his arms stretched and a large cheeky smile on his face while he was taking the acclamations of the arsenal fans.

It was as if he had never gone.

During his first appearance after more than three months of injuries, the English winger scored what turned out to be the purpose of the stacking in a 2-1 victory against Fulham while Arsenal gathered the gap of the leader of the Premier League Liverpool at nine points on Tuesday.

SAKA – Arsenal’s star player and easily his most popular – entered the 66th minute to a huge ovation after his long absence because of a serious problem of the hamstrings. In seven minutes, he was acclaimed again after nodding his head at Arsenal at the Emirates stadium.

Arsenal director Mikel Arteta said that the thunderous reception of supporters towards Saka showed how much “people love him and were missing”. “He raised the stadium,” said Arteta, while Arsenal midfielder Declan Rice welcomed one of the best wingers in the world “. “He attacks the box and sniffs the goal,” said Rice.

“With Bukayo, it’s a real boost.” Mikel Merino scored the first match of the 37th minute for Arsenal, which requires an unlikely collapse of Liverpool if the London club has to seize its first title of League since 2004. Liverpool welcomes Everton in the Merseyside Derby on Wednesday, after which he remains eight towers in the Premier League.

Arsenal remained four points away from third place in Nottingham Forest, who beat Manchester United 1-0 thanks to a brilliant solo goal from Anthony Elaga – a former united player – to close a remarkable qualification for the Champions League.

Forest, who was fighting relegation last season, is 10 points from Newcastle in sixth place. The first five should qualify for the Champions League next season.

Concern for injuries for the arsenal

Saka, who was sidelined since her injury on December 21 during a championship match at Crystal Palace, is back in time to face Real Madrid in the quarter -finals of the Champions League from next week.

It remains to be seen if Gabriel Magalhaes will be available for Arsenal against European champions. The central rear of Brazil took place with an apparent injury to the hamstrings in the 16th minute against Fulham.

“I hope he’s going well because he was probably our best player this season,” said Rice, “and we need him for big games and special occasions.” Rodrigo Muniz has managed a goal of consolation in time for Fulham.

The objective of the wonders of Elanga

Elaga showed Man United what is missing with one of the goals of the season.

The Swedish winger took control of 20 meters inside his own half at the fifth minute and launched directly towards the goal of United, first raised the opponent back Alejandro Garnacho, then entering the penalty surface before shooting the lower corner.

Elaga, who left Malmo at 11 to move to Manchester with his mother and sisters and was quickly recommended to United, celebrated silent against the team that brought him to professional ranks before selling him to Forest in 2023.

“I appreciate Manchester United as much as I learned a lot there,” said Elaga. “I appreciate my football (in the forest) and I want to continue.” Captain of the forest Ryan Yates said that Elaga was a “dream” for his teammates.

“Above all, we sit in this low block – you can give him the ball and he does the rest,” said Yates.

He is now a key player in Forest’s improbable march to the Champions League qualification for the first time. It will not be the first time of the team in the best European competition, of course – the forest was famous for the European Cup winner in 1979 and 1980 under Brian Cloud.

The replacement United, Harry Maguire had an effort erased by the forest defender Murillo in one of the last kicks of the match during a dramatic end at City Ground.

United stayed in brown in 13th place in what should be his worst arrival in the Premier League.

“We should have won this match, not even drawn,” said United Manager Ruben Amorim, whose team had 24 shots, “but in the end, we lost three points.”

Wolves facilitate relegation problems

In the other match of the night, Wolverhampton beat West Ham 1-0 thanks to the goal of Jørgen Strand Larsen in the 21st minute to deviate more from the danger of relegation.

The Wolves remained from the fourth to the attention, but moved 12 points from the last three.