Arsenal moved again to the prime of the Premier League with a dominant 3-0 win at Brentford, whereas Everton beat West Ham 1-0 to get their first victory of the season on Sunday.
Injuries to captain Martin Odegaard and Oleksandr Zinchenko had stretched Arsenal’s squad to the extent that 15-year-old Ethan Nwaneri got here off the bench late to develop into the youngest participant in Premier League historical past.
However, the Gunners confirmed no signal of weak spot at a floor the place they had been overwhelmed 2-0 final season to maneuver again one level above Manchester City and Tottenham at the prime of the desk.
William Saliba and Gabriel Jesus headed in earlier than half-time and Fabio Vieira marked his first Premier League begin with a beautiful strike after the break.
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Brentford’s tackle Arsenal
Brentford boss Thomas Frank mentioned he believes Arsenal shall be title contenders they usually performed prefer it to blow away the Bees in the first 45 minutes.
“We have a different mentality this season,” mentioned Arsenal midfielder Granit Xhaka. “We are training like we play and have class with the players that can make a difference.”
The match had been moved ahead two hours to assist ease police pressures round Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral and Britain’s longest serving monarch was remembered in a minute’s silence earlier than kick-off.
Once the motion did get underway, it was a technique visitors as Arsenal bounced again in type from their sole defeat of the season away to Manchester United two weeks in the past.
It took simply 17 minutes for Mikel Arteta’s males to make the breakthrough when Saliba flicked Bukayo Saka’s nook in off the far submit.
Jesus additionally used his head to attain his fourth objective in seven Premier League video games since becoming a member of from Manchester City as he powered house an attractive supply from Xhaka.
‘Gut feeling’ on Nwaneri
The absence of Odegaard additionally made room for Vieira and the Portuguese midfielder made his mark with a luxurious strike from outdoors the field to kill off any doubt over the final result 4 minutes into the second half.
An simple day for Arsenal was rounded off a minute from time when Arteta was in a position to hand Nwaneri his debut as simply 15 years and 181 days, breaking Harvey Elliott’s document as the youngest participant in Premier League historical past when he appeared for Fulham as a 16-year-old.
“It was a pure gut feeling,”
mentioned Arteta on handing Nwaneri a debut.
“Yesterday he had to come because we have injuries, especially the injury of Martin and then I had that feeling from yesterday that if the opportunity could come that I was going to do it.”
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At the different finish of the desk, West Ham will spend the upcoming worldwide break in the backside three after Neal Maupay’s first Everton objective gave the Toffees a much-needed win.
Frank Lampard’s males are actually unbeaten in 5 league video games however had simply 4 factors on the board earlier than kick-off from 4 consecutive attracts.
An damage to Dominic Calvert-Lewin compelled Everton to hunt extra firepower in the remaining weeks of the switch window and Maupay delivered on simply his second look since a transfer from Brighton.
The Frenchman spun onto Alex Iwobi’s go and fired in from the fringe of the space to carry Everton as much as thirteenth in the desk.
West Ham slip to 18th with only one win from their opening seven league video games.
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