Luton Town 3-4 Arsenal: Last-gasp Declan Rice goal snatches win for Gunners in seven-goal thriller

Declan Rice’s last-gasp header snatched victory for Arsenal in a seven-goal thriller at Luton to move them five points clear at the top of the Premier League.

However, the Hatters were denied a valuable point when Rice met Martin Odegaard’s cross in the seventh minute of stopping time, 23 seconds after the six official minutes added on had expired.

Arsenal had dominated a largely uneventful opening to a game which sparked into life when Gabriel Martinelli steered Bukayo Saka’s pass into the bottom-left corner.

Gabriel Osho’s header from Alfie Doughty’s corner brought the hosts level shortly after, but when Gabriel Jesus nodded in Ben White’s cross from close range the Gunners looked to have regained control.

But in a chaotic period after the interval, the league’s best defense suddenly appeared flustered with Adebayo leaping above Raya to head in another Doughty delivery from a corner.

And with Luton in the ascendency, Barkley collected an Andros Townsend pass and beat White before driving a low left-foot shot under Raya.

The momentum swung back towards Mikel Arteta’s side when Kai Havertz produced in from the impressive Jesus’ pass to equalise, but Luton looked to have held the visitors at bay until Rice’s dramatic intervention.

The result leaves Luton 17th, two points above the relegation zone. Second-placed Liverpool, five points behind Arsenal, play their game in hand at Sheffield United on Wednesday (19:30 GMT), while Manchester City, a point further back, are at fourth-placed Aston Villa (20:15).

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Player of the match

Gabriel MartinelliGabriel Martinelli

Luton Town

1. Squad number6Player nameBarkley

2. Squad number45Player nameDoughty

3. Squad number7Player nameOgbene

4. Squad number19Player nameBrown

5. Squad number2Player nameOsho

6. Squad number30Player nameTownsend

7. Squad number11Player nameAdebayo

8. Squad number15Player nameMengi

9. Squad number17Player nameMpanzu

10. Squad number14Player nameChong

11. Squad number12Player nameKabore

12. Squad number29Player nameBell

13. Squad number24Player nameKaminski

14. Squad number9Player nameMorris

15. Squad number18Player nameClark

16. Squad number26Player nameGiles