Gunners fire record 6

Declan Rice scored on his return to West Ham as Arsenal smashed David Moyesrsquo men 60 in a statement of intent in the Premier League title race on Sunday Bukayo Saka struck twice while Leandro Trossard and centrebacks William Saliba and Gabriel Magalhaes were also on target in a ruthless display from Mikel Artetarsquos men as they set a new club record for a Premier League away winClosing in on LiverpoolVictory takes the Gunners back to within two points of Premier League leaders Liverpool and behind Manchester City only on goals scoredThe wheels of Arsenalrsquos challenge for a first league title in 20 years appeared to be coming off when they lost at home to the Hammers amid a run of one win in seven games either side of the new yearAlso Read Injured Bellingham to miss Madridrsquos Leipzig tripDeclan RiceHowever they have bounced back emphatically since a twoweek winter break to lay down the gauntlet to perennial title challengers City and Liverpool at the top of the tableWest Ham had beaten the Gunners twice this season also dumping them out of the League Cup in NovemberHammers outclassedBut they were outclassed to up the scrutiny on Moyes who is out of contract at the end of the season Arsenalrsquos title challenge last season began to wobble when they blew a 20 lead at the London Stadium last seasonThis time there was never any doubt of the outcome once Saliba headed home Ricersquos corner to open the floodgates on 32 minutes Saka missed a penalty in that draw last April but made no mistake from the spot after he had been brought down by Alphonse AreolaRice led West Ham to Europa Conference League glory in his final game for the club before moving to north London for a fee in excess of pound100 millionThe England international was given a clear demonstration of why he had to make the move to fulfil his ambition of more silverware as another wicked Rice delivery was nodded in by GabrielTrossard strikesTrossard pilled on the West Ham pain in firsthalf stoppage time as he cut inside to fire brilliantly into the top corner That goal was the trigger for many of the home support to leave for the afternoon as the second half was played out in front of vast swathes of empty seats Moyes made two changes at halftime to try and stop the bleeding as Kalvin Phillips and former Arsenal defender Konstantinos Mavropanos were introducedIt was really tough KloppLiverpool returned to the Premier League summit with a hardfought 31 win over relegationthreatened Burnley on Saturday after champions Manchester City briefly replaced them at the topThe Anfield side are hunting a recordequalling 20th English topflight title in Jurgen Klopprsquos final season in charge but once again have relentless City snapping at their heels Liverpool were not at their fluent best against Vincent Kompanyrsquos men but did enough to get over the line on what Klopp called a ldquosuper difficultrdquo dayldquoItrsquos not only the three pointsrdquo Klopp told the BBC ldquoYou cannot have momentum guaranteed all the time Nine days ago we played incredible against Chelsea then we lost to Arsenal Itrsquos always a different challenge If itrsquos not clicking straight away fight through it It was really tough today but the boys fought through and got three pointsrdquo he saidThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever