Arsenal beat Chelsea 1-zero to dispel doubts over their Premier League identify credentials and go top of the desk on Sunday as Liverpool bounced returned with a 2-1 win at Tottenham.
Manchester United had been blown away 3-1 through an stimulated Aston Villa on Unai Emery’s bow as boss, while Newcastle moved as much as third with a four-1 victory at Southampton.Gabriel Magalhaes bundled in Bukayo Saka’s nook for the handiest intention at Stamford Bridge, but the narrow margin of victory became the very least Arsenal deserved.
Chelsea provided barely some thing going ahead as they slipped to lower back-to-back Premier League defeats for the first time in years.
“For this type of young group, the adulthood, the composure they showed, the resilience and braveness to play how we wanted to play changed into phenomenal to do it towards these form of players,” stated a proud Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta.
“Winning in this stadium is an additional component, any other step for this team to keep believing they can do it beneath pressure and against big fighters.”
Victory takes Arsenal returned factors clear of Manchester City on the pinnacle of the table.
Chelsea continue to be in 7th, behind Brighton, who Graham Potter left in September to take fee of the Blues.Liverpool had slipped down to tenth earlier than kick-off at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium after consecutive defeats to Nottingham Forest and Leeds.
But Mohamed Salah’s first-1/2 double secured a first away league win of the season for Jurgen Klopp’s men.
The Egyptian coolly slotted domestic Darwin Nunez’s pass before pouncing on an blunders from Eric Dier.
Harry Kane pulled a purpose returned 20 mins from time, but Spurs couldn’t keep up their run of extraordinary late fightbacks to go through a 3rd defeat in 4 league games.
United have been unbeaten in 9 video games because the Red Devils seemed to be taking shape under Erik ten Hag.
But regardless of the lavish amounts spent to bring together the United squad, a lack of power in depth became uncovered with Antony, Jadon Sancho and Raphael Varane missing due to harm and Bruno Fernandes suspended.
Emery couldn’t have requested for a higher begin to his time in charge of Villa as Leon Bailey smashed throughout David de Gea and Lucas Digne’s unfastened-kick found the top nook internal 11 minutes.”You need to be geared up for the game, we had been not,” stated Ten Hag. “We lost the sport at the begin of the primary half of and start of the second one half. That’s now not appropriate.”
Luke Shaw’s strike that deflected off Jacob Ramsey into his own net gave the site visitors hope simply earlier than half of-time.
Villa, although, speedy restored their -intention lead whilst Ramsey aspect-footed into the pinnacle nook on forty nine mins.
Cristiano Ronaldo captained United simply weeks after being disciplined for refusing Ten Hag’s orders to return on alternatively.
On any other irritating afternoon for Ronaldo, the 5-time Ballon d’Or winner survived a VAR overview for a purple card after clashing with Tyrone Mings.
Newcastle’s sixth win in seven video games took them above Tottenham into 1/3.
Miguel Almiron continued his stunning shape with a seventh purpose in as many video games to open the scoring in sodden situations at St. Mary’s.
