If anyone was still wondering whether Arsenal are truly back to their best, this win at West Ham will surely banish any lingering doubts.For the second time in a week, the Gunners put five goals past their opponents and this time they did it all in the first half.It made for a scintillating opening 45 minutes, which also saw West Ham score twice. Not since 2012 has a Premier League match had seven first-half goals, with only three previous examples in total.The second half was the opposite of the first. Not a single goal was scored and instead this game meandered to a quiet finish. Not that Mikel Arteta will have minded, with Arsenal hosting Manchester United on Wednesday night.This trip to West Ham was all about Arsenal securing the win that closed the gap to Premier League leaders Liverpool to six points. The Gunners can now sit back and watch Sunday’s showdown between the Reds and Manchester City in comfort.
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00:00So it's all over here at the London Stadium and what a win for Arsenal. 5-2, 5 different
00:06scorers, 5 goals in the first half. That was possibly one of the craziest games of football
00:12I've seen in those opening 45 minutes. It was almost impossible to keep up with it.
00:16So much going on. For Arsenal, I think we saw the best of them there going forward.
00:20Odegaard absolutely brilliant involved in so much of the good play. That combination
00:23with Saka, we've said it since the international break, but the two of those together when
00:27they combine, as we saw from West Ham here today, it's pretty much unplayable to deal
00:31with that. And Arsenal were great going forward in that half. Credit to West Ham for their
00:35two goals, but really they didn't have an answer for Arsenal going forward.
00:38The second half, I think probably in a way was actually one that Arteta would have quite
00:42enjoyed. Nothing of note really happening in it. Calafiore going off, we'll have to
00:46see what the news is on that, but it was a sort of professional second half from Arsenal.
00:50Given they've got Manchester United on Wednesday, I think that was probably what Arteta would
00:54have wanted, but a reminder here that Arsenal really are looking like a team that is back
00:57in this type of race.