{"id":3329,"date":"2026-05-02T21:29:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T21:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=3329"},"modified":"2026-05-02T21:29:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T21:29:06","slug":"arsenal-player-ratings-vs-fulham-bukayo-sakas-back-starboy-shines-brightest-as-gunners-go-six-points-clear-and-boost-goal-difference-in-easy-win-at-the-emirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=3329","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal player ratings vs Fulham: Bukayo Saka&#8217;s back! &#8216;Starboy&#8217; shines brightest as Gunners go six points clear &#8211; and boost goal difference &#8211; in easy win at the Emirates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\" data-affiliate-button-variant=\"D\">\n<div>\n<p><b><strong>David Raya (6\/10):<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Had almost nothing to do against a feeble Fulham side.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><strong>Ben White (5\/10):<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>The weak link in the Arsenal back four. Looked to get forward when he could but his distribution was poor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><strong>William Saliba (7\/10):<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>With nothing to do in defence, the Frenchman was able to venture forward at times and nearly set up his central defensive partner Gabriel for a goal with a beautiful ball to the back post.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><strong>Gabriel Magalhaes (7\/10):<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Won an unsurprisingly physical battle with Fulham striker Jimenez and, as usual, caused chaos at set-pieces.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><strong>Riccardo Calafiori (8\/10):<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Recalled at left-back and while the Italian was unlucky to see a fine header (rightly) ruled out for offside and another hit the bar, he proved an excellent outlet down the left flank all evening. Also made a crucial block to deny Jimenez in the first half and will be hoping to start the second leg against Atleti.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Raya (6\/10): Had almost nothing to do against a feeble Fulham side. Ben White&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}