Arsenal defeated Manchester United 1-0(REUTERS)
After ending second for the previous three seasons, the stress is on Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta to ship the membership’s first league title since 2003/04.
The Gunners had been removed from spectacular at Old Trafford however earned an enormous three factors due to a obvious error from United’s stand-in goalkeeper Altay Bayindir.
The Turkish worldwide flapped at Declan Rice’s nook on 13 minutes, presenting Calafiori with the easy activity of heading into an empty web.
United gave debuts to all of their new £200 million ($271 million) attacking trident of Matheus Cunha, Bryan Mbeumo and Benjamin Sesko however couldn’t discover a well beyond the Premier League’s greatest defence for the previous two seasons.
Patrick Dorgu got here closest to an equaliser when the Dane smashed towards the publish from lengthy vary.
It was a story of the 2 goalkeepers as Arsenal stopper David Raya additionally produced effective saves to disclaim Cunha and Mbeumo an ideal begin to their United careers.
Chelsea’s hangover
Chelsea suffered a Club World Cup hangover as they had been stored at bay by FA Cup winners Palace.
The Eagles had been denied an early opener when Eberechi Eze’s free-kick was dominated out by a VAR assessment for Marc Guehi obstructing the Chelsea wall.
New Chelsea signing Estevao got here closest to snatching a winner for the house facet, however the newly-crowned world champions had been blunt in assault towards a well-organised Palace defence.
Palace’s key duo of Guehi and Eze began regardless of mounting hypothesis the England internationals are set to hitch Liverpool and Tottenham, respectively.
“As long as they are 100 percent committed, they will play as they are so good,” stated Palace boss Oliver Glasner.
“They didn’t just show they are great footballers, but they are great persons and that’s what I expected.”
Chelsea’s demolition of European champions Paris Saint-Germain within the Club World Cup remaining final month had raised the Blues’ hopes they’ll problem for a primary Premier League title since 2017.
But Enzo Maresca bemoaned his facet’s lack of preparation time since beating PSG in New York simply 35 days in the past.
“They played about eight (pre-season) games, we played just two so we tried our best,” stated the Italian.
“We anticipated a troublesome sport. Apart from the primary half free-kick, we did not concede any possibilities.”
‘Beautiful targets’
Nottingham Forest made mild of supervisor Nuno Espirito Santo’s pre-season fears over a scarcity of signings with a dominant 3-1 win over a much-changed Brentford.
Chris Wood struck twice both facet of Dan Ndyoe’s debut purpose for Forest on a nightmare afternoon for brand new Brentford boss Keith Andrews.
“It was a very good first half. The combinations were really good, beautiful goals,” stated Nuno.
“This is why we are insisting on a good balanced squad that gives us options and solutions.”
The Bees have misplaced their supervisor, captain and high scorer within the low season.
Thomas Frank left to take cost of Tottenham, Mbeumo bought his dream transfer to Manchester United and Arsenal secured Christian Norgaard.
Yoane Wissa was additionally lacking from the Brentford squad forward of an anticipated transfer to Newcastle.
Igor Thiago’s first purpose for the membership from the penalty spot late on was the one comfort for the guests.
“I do have genuine belief but we have to take responsibility for a first half that wasn’t good enough,” stated Andrews.
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