Premier League: Arsenal beat Leicester 3-1, Spurs thrash Burnley 4-0

Premier League Latest Points Table – Arsenal, Tottenham Hotspurs Wins: Arsenal revived its hopes of playing in European competition next season after goals from David Luiz, Alexandre Lacazette and Nicolas Pepe helped it to a 3-1 win at Leicester City in an entertaining Premier League clash on Sunday.

The result lifted Arsenal two places up to ninth on 37 points from 26 games while Leicester stayed third on 49 points after suffering a second setback in three days following its Europa League elimination.


Leicester, who exited Europe’s second-tier competition with a 2-0 home defeat by Slavia Prague on Thursday, took a sixth-minute lead against Arsenal as Youri Tielemans cut inside the area from the right flank and fired a low shot into the far corner.

The Gunners equalised in the 39th when Luiz headed a Willian cross into the bottom right corner and Lacazette turned the tide in first-half stoppage time as he drilled in a penalty after a VAR check showed Wilfred Ndidi had handled the ball in the area.



Poor defending cost Leicester again in the 52nd minute as it allowed the visitor to break through the middle before Willian slipped the ball to Pepe and the Ivorian forward tucked it into an empty net from two metres.

Arsenal held on comfortably in the closing stages and missed chances to win by a bigger margin as Kieran Tierney volleyed just wide from 20 metres and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang came close with a fizzing low shot.


Premier League Latest Points Table – 2020/21 season standings

Pos Team P W D L GD Pts
1 Man City 26 19 5 2 36 62
2 Man United 25 14 7 4 21 49
3 Leicester 25 15 4 6 17 49
4 West Ham 26 13 6 7 9 45
5 Chelsea 25 12 7 6 16 43
6 Liverpool 25 11 7 7 11 40
7 Everton 24 12 4 8 4 40
8 Tottenham 25 11 6 8 14 39
9 Aston Villa 24 12 3 9 12 39
10 Arsenal 26 11 4 11 7 37
11 Leeds 26 11 2 13 -1 35
12 Wolves 26 9 7 10 -6 34
13 Crystal Palace 26 9 6 11 -14 33
14 Southampton 25 8 6 11 -12 30
15 Burnley 25 7 7 11 -12 28
16 Brighton 26 5 11 10 -7 26
17 Newcastle 26 7 5 14 -17 26
18 Fulham 26 4 11 11 -11 23
19 West Brom 26 3 8 15 -35 17
20 Sheffield Utd 25 3 2 20 -26 11


Premier League fixtures and results

Sunday, February 28, 2021

Crystal Palace vs Fulham 0-0

Arsenal beat Leicester 3-1

Tottenham Hotspurs beat Burnley 4-0

Man United vs Chelsea

Sheffield United vs Liverpool