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It is surely too early in the season to get carried away, and there are likely to be bigger tests ahead for Mikel Arteta’s side.
But Arsenal have set down an early marker as they chase back-to-back Premier League crowns.
Along with Manchester City, they are one of only two clubs with a maximum nine points from three games.
After sweeping aside Coventry on the opening day of the
While Palmer and Joao Pedro have generally carried Chelsea‘s biggest attacking threat in recent times, they have now been joined by the impressive Rogers too.
His arrival reunites him with Palmer, an ex-Manchester City team-mate and someone he described after the win at Craven Cottage as his “best friend in football”.
“He had a difficult season with injuries and stuff last year – and you could see
Enzo Maresca won his first game in charge of Manchester City with a 3-1 win over the K-League All Stars in Seoul.
All four goals were scored in the opening 23 minutes as City bounced back from Saturday’s penalty shoot-out loss to Inter Milan.
Rayan Ait-Nouri, Tijjani Reijnders and Divin Mubama all scored for City, who used 22 players in the win.
Here, Sky Sports assesses Maresca’s first win in
After a very noisy week at Tottenham, it must have been nice for Postecoglou to see the spotlight turned on his opposite number.
The Spurs boss openly questioned some of his players on Thursday, specifically Timo Werner, after a difficult night against Rangers in the Europa League.
He doubled down on his criticism on Friday and made five changes for this game, albeit some of those enforced due to suspensions
Stefan Ortega, Manchester City, keeper, £5.2m – home to Nottingham Forest
Two weeks ago, triple Arsenal defence paid off against Forest at home so we’re going back to the well again.
Arsenal restricted Forest to zero shots on target in that match. City’s defence isn’t quite as good and they’ve played pretty poorly recently.
However, they still have quality players and have managed at least 11 clean sheets per season
England Under-21 international Delap, the son of former Stoke midfielder Rory Delap, made two appearances for Manchester City in the Premier League and spent last season on loan with Hull in the Championship, scoring eight goals in 32 games.
With three goals in six Premier League starts this term, he is not the only former City youth player to announce himself already this season.
Morgan Rogers, who scored against Ipswich
Bruno Fernandes, Manchester United, midfielder, £8.4m – away at Southampton
The underlying statistics are screaming out for us to pick Fernandes this week.
The Manchester United talisman has been unlucky to have no returns so far this season.
His xGI is two, he has had eight shots (Salah has had just nine and scored three times), four in the box and two big chances.
Couple that with Southampton’s defence, which
We are nearing the end game now.
As Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola rather succinctly put it: “One week left, three games left. Nine points and we will be champions. Seven, six or three points, Arsenal will win the Premier League.”
Guardiola is not placing much faith in Manchester United then, given he expects Arsenal to win every game and the Gunners visit Old Trafford on 12 May.
But, then,