{"id":257386,"date":"2020-09-12T17:45:22","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T16:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=257386"},"modified":"2020-09-12T17:54:41","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T16:54:41","slug":"fulham-vs-arsenal-lacazette-makes-premier-league-history-after-3-0-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=257386","title":{"rendered":"Fulham vs Arsenal: Lacazette makes Premier League history after 3-0 victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Arsenal striker, Alexandre Lacazette, on Saturday afternoon made Premier League history after scoring in his side\u2019s 3-0 victory against Fulham.<\/p>\n<p>Lacazette netted Arsenal\u2019s first goal in the ninth minute against Fulham at Craven Cottage.<\/p>\n<p>Gabriel and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang then scored two goals for Mikel Arteta\u2019s side in the second half to give the Emirates club all three points against the host.<\/p>\n<p>However, Lacazette\u2019s goal against Fulham means the France international has now become the first player to open the scoring in a Premier League campaign twice, according to Opta Joe.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old had previously become the first player to score in a Premier League season in 2017-18, when he scored within two minutes during his side\u2019s opener against Leicester City, on his debut in the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Lacazette was recently linked with a move away from Arsenal to Juventus and Atletico Madrid respectively this summer, but he insisted on Friday that he wanted to remain at the North London club.<\/p>\n<p>The forward will now hope to continue his brilliant form for Arteta\u2019s side when they host West Ham United in their next fixture on September 19.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal striker, Alexandre Lacazette, on Saturday afternoon made Premier League history after scoring in his side\u2019s 3-0 victory against Fulham. Lacazette netted Arsenal\u2019s first goal in the ninth minute against Fulham at Craven Cottage. Gabriel and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang then scored two goals for Mikel Arteta\u2019s side in the second half to give the Emirates club [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":257387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[4427,7787,10514],"class_list":["post-257386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-arsenal","tag-fulham","tag-lacazette"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=257386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/257387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}