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Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta insisted the Gunners took off the handbrake after their loss to West Brom.
Alexandre Lacazette’s second-half double and good shots from Kieran Tierney and Bukayo Saka earned a dominant 4-0 win at the Hawthorns.
The Gunners have now won three straight Premier League games for the second time with Arteta.
They rose to 11th place, three points behind the top six, just weeks after their season threatened to collapse and Arteta was questioned, but the boss can see the progress.
“This is the closest to what we want,” he said. ‘This is an Arsenal team with the idea that I want. There were times when we were very close to that. The players had released the handbrake and you can see that they are free to play.
‘There were moments when we were very good, both on defense and offense.
‘This is exactly what we want the players to do. The energy and drive are so much more positive.
“It is always difficult to win away from home and we have done it in a really convincing way. They are three in a row and we had talked about the importance of this week. ‘
The relentless visitors took the lead after 23 minutes when Tierney twice beat Darnell Furlong to cut from the left and shoot past Sam Johnstone.
Five minutes later, it was 2-0 when Albion opened and Saka finished off a fluid move that involved Emile Smith Rowe and Lacazette.
There was no turning back for the Baggies and, after Callum Robison canceled an offside goal, Lacazette scored twice in three minutes of the second half.
First, he scored after Semi Ajayi swung Saka’s cross toward the post and blocked Smith Rowe’s next shot.
The forward then took his ninth of the season when he tapped on a Tierney cross from one yard out.
Albion has now lost its last two home games 5-0 and 4-0 and has conceded 12 times in Sam Allardyce’s three games at the Hawthorns.
They were outscored again by the Gunners to put them second from the bottom, six points from safety, and Allardyce knows where West Brom needs to improve.
‘We have to fight as a team, we can only do the things we have to do better than what we are doing now. That is first and foremost stop giving away sloppy goals, ” said the former Everton manager, who confirmed that forward Karlan Grant will likely be out for five weeks with a broken foot.
“We need to improve defense as a team, as we have shown against Manchester City and Liverpool.
“ We need to be more resilient in terms of our defense and until we have a clean sheet we won’t get enough points to move up the table because we don’t have any proven Premier League scorer on our team.
“They have had some moments of joy in Liverpool (1-1 draw) and that joy has not morphed into solid performances after that. You can tell that when we lose the ball we forget how to defend ”.
Source: m.allfootballapp.com
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