Arsenal failed to take the opportunity to close the top-four gap as Jan Bednarek\u2019s first-half goal plus an inspired display from goalkeeper Fraser Forster gave Southampton a 1-0 victory.<\/p>\n
With Saturday\u2019s defeat, Arsenal have lost each of their last three Premier League games.<\/span><\/p>\n Southampton took their chance when it came as defender Jan Bednarek swept high past Aaron Ramsdale just before half-time.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe had so much possession, we created situations but the end product was not good,\u201d said Arteta.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cYou have to score goals to win games. What else can I say? The boys played the way they have to play but in the box is where things are defined.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n At the bottom of the table, Watford look set to return to the Championship after Brentford inflicted their 10th successive home league defeat.<\/span><\/p>\n Pontus Jansson scored the winner deep into stoppage time for the Bees after Emmanuel Dennis had cancelled out Christian Norgaard\u2019s opener.<\/span><\/p>\n Second-from-bottom Watford remain six points adrift of safety with six games left to play.<\/span><\/p>\n AFP<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Arsenal failed to take the opportunity to close the top-four gap as Jan Bednarek\u2019s first-half goal plus an inspired display from goalkeeper Fraser Forster gave Southampton a 1-0 victory. With Saturday\u2019s defeat, Arsenal have lost each of their last three Premier League games. Southampton took their chance when it came as defender Jan Bednarek swept […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1376,4250,4251],"class_list":["post-7100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-arsenal","tag-defeat","tag-southampton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7102,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7100\/revisions\/7102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}