Gunners punish a hapless United

Arsenal’s Leandro Trossard capitalised on dreadful Manchester United defending to give his side a 1-0 victory on Sunday that saw Mikel Arteta’s men provisionally overtake Manchester City for top spot in Premier League.

While Arsenal, which won for just the second time at Old Tra ord in its last 17 visits, has 86 points with one game left of the tightest title race in years, holder City remain in the driving seat with 85 points and two matches to play.

Trossard scored in the 20th minute when Kai Havertz strolled barely challenged into space on the right side before sending the ball into the box for Trossard to tuck home.

The game swung from end to end over a ‹nal tense few minutes, with United goalkeeper Andre Onana leaping to push away shots from substitute

Gabriel Martinelli and Declan Rice. United is eighth with two games left, and trail sixth-placed Newcastle by three points.

Newly-crowned LaLiga champion Real Madrid earned a 4-0 victory over Granada on Saturday, extending its unbeaten league run to 28 games.

The results: Premier League: Nottingham Forest 2 (Boly 16, Hudson-Odoi 74) lost to Chelsea 3 (Mudryk 8, Sterling 80, Jackson 82); United 0 bt Arsenal 1 (Trossard 21).

LaLiga: Granada 0 lost to Real Madrid 4 (Garcia 38, Guler 45+2, Diaz 49, 58); Athletic Bilbao 2 (Inaki Williams 58, Villalibre 90+6) drew with Osasuna 2 (Raul Garcia 40, Ruben Garcia 48); Cadiz 1 (Alcaraz 35-pen) bt Getafe 0; Atletico 1 (De Paul 84) bt Celta Vigo 0.

Serie A: Lazio 2 (Patric 45+2, Vecino 89) bt Empoli 0; AC Milan 5 (Bennacer 35, Pulisic 59, 86, Reijnders 74, Leao 84) bt Cagliari 1 (Nandez 63); Napoli 0 lost to Bologna 2 (Ndoye 9, Posch 12); Genoa 2 (Badelj 56, Kumbulla 63-og) bt Sassuolo 1 (Pinamonti 31-pen); Verona 1 (Swiderski 67) lost to Torino 2 (Savva 77, Pellegri 83).