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Arsenal moved level on points with Manchester City at the top of the Premier League table with a comfortable home victory over Everton.
Defenders Ezri Konsa and Gabriel Magalhaes scored the goals to lift Arsenal to 21 points, to join City who had earlier lost at Aston Villa.
The opening goal came in the seventh minute after early Arsenal pressure helped them win three corners in a row, with Konsa
Oscar Bobb’s late goal made it back-to-back Premier League wins for Fulham as they claimed victory at Coventry City.
In a game which otherwise lacked quality, Bobb weaved past a defender in a crowded penalty area before whipping an excellent strike into the bottom corner to score the game’s only goal.
In the first half, it was Fulham’s Josh King who came closest to delivering an opener when he sent
Villa have hit a bit of form and seem to be getting back to the level they were at last season.
They had another good win in the Champions League this week, but then you’d expect them to beat Viking pretty comfortably.
Emery’s side played well against Newcastle last week too but I thought Newcastle were a bit too gung-ho, and paid the price. City are a lot more streetwise.
After winning 12 of his 17 games in charge last season to guide United back into the Champions League after a two-year absence, Carrick was given a two-year contract.
However, as happened with Solskjaer five years ago, the new campaign has unravelled spectacularly and they are 13th in the Premier League, three points clear of bottom club Sunderland.
Although they recovered from their shock opening-day defeat to newly promoted Hull
There are only seven previous instances of a team scoring 23 or more goals after seven games of a Premier League season. All bar one have gone on to finish in the top three, with Manchester City winning the title in 2011-12 and 2022-23.
The outlier? Kevin Keegan’s Newcastle United team of 1994-95, who faded and finished sixth. Comparisons have already been drawn between that side, dubbed ‘The Entertainers’, and
Arsenal broke Nottingham Forest’s resolve as a second-half strike by substitute Noni Madueke earned the defending champions a sixth Premier League win of the season.
The Gunners looked in danger of being held to their first draw of the campaign as they struggled to break down the home side’s defence.
A dreadful first half did not feature any shots on target from either side, which is only the second time
Whether or not Sunderland‘s squad is deep enough, heading to Bournemouth to face a side who were without a league win before Sunday and had also just played in Europe on Thursday should have been one they were relishing.
Yet Sunderland could not have made it easier for the hosts at Vitality Stadium.
One of the recent summer recruits, Kevin Danso – a loan signing from Tottenham Hotspur –
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Fulham boss Alvaro Arbeloa says securing the club’s first Premier League victory of the season before a crunch period of games for them was “massive”.
The Cottagers had been winless in their previous six league matches but secured all three points against Hull City thanks to Alex Iwobi’s 33rd-minute strike.
The result offered respite for head coach Arbeloa, who succeeded Marco Silva in the Craven Cottage hot seat in July
Chelsea goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez left the pitch on a stretcher with a serious-looking head injury as Xabi Alonso’s side won at Everton.
Argentina World Cup winner Martinez and Everton defender Jarrad Branthwaite clashed heads as they went for the ball in the 75th minute.
Branthwaite was able to continue after treatment, but the game was held up for 10 minutes as Martinez received medical care.
The 34-year-old, who was able