Meanwhile, Liverpool are the first protective champion since Manchester United (2011-12) to win their first three matches.
Read on for a complete review of the games.
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LIVERPOOL TEAM TO WIN AFTER ARSENAL TRIUMPH
Liverpool came to get off to a better start in defending their name in the Premier League, as goals from Sadio Mane, Andy Robertson and Diogo Jota saw Arsenal 3-1 at Anfield.
The Gunners also won their first two league games of the season and beat the champions in the counterattack to take the lead Alexandre Lacazette.
But while Manchester City, Chelsea, Manchester United, Tottenham and now Arsenal have lost in the first 3 weeks of the new campaign, Liverpool have taken the utmost trouble to temporarily identify that they remain the team to beat in Premier League. League, season.
The outcome of the attack could have been very different if Mane had escaped with only one yellow card for an elbow to Kieran Tierney after only 3 minutes.
Arsenal followed the game plan that had earned them two victories over Liverpool in months while falling deeply and then sought to play around the Reds press when they were in possession.
However, in their meeting at the end of the Premier League last season when Jurgen Klopp’s men had already won the league or Community Shield in August, Liverpool were much more accurate in taking the Gunners out of their position.
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Mane was the first to threaten a target shot from a center in Trent Alexander-Arnold that was too close to Bernd Leno before Alexander-Arnold’s deviant effort returned from the crossbar.
The time Arsenal controlled to break through the Liverpool press before half-time opened the score absolutely opposite to the game’s march.
Robertson was to blame for launching an Ainsley Maitland-Niles center on the way to Lacazette, who also could not identify a correct connection, but the ball bounced off the floor and looped over the helpless Alisson Becker.
Liverpool responded promptly to the point in 3 minutes when Salah beat Tierney and when his shot left on purpose via Leno, Mane became an empty net.
Robertson corrected his past mistake while Liverpool’s flying backs combined while Alexander-Arnold’s centre this time changed through the Scottish captain.
However, where Arsenal groups in recent years may have collapsed, as they did by losing 4-0 and 5-1 at Anfield in 2018 and 2019, Mikel Arteta has instilled new confidence in FA Cup winners.
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They were more expansive after the break and created a massive chance to signal when Dani Ceballos put Lacazette in the goal, but Alisson resisted to block the French striker’s shot.
Klopp put Jota on his league debut with 10 minutes to the pass and Portuguese foreigners sealed the victory by firing Salah’s right ball into the side net.
The less benevolent Egyptian moments later when he stole the ball at Jota’s feet and failed to defeat Leno.
But Jota didn’t have to wait long for his first purpose at Liverpool when a soft volley uncovered the back corner to show why the Reds spent 41 million pounds ($ 52 million) to point him out of the Wolves.
VILLA CONTINUES A STRONG START IN 20 YEARS FIRST
Aston Villa extended his best start to the Premier League season, as goals from Jack Grealish, Conor Hourihane and Tyrone Mings swept through a depressed Fulham, which he suffered to adjust to life on the most sensible flight, 3-0 on Monday.
Scott Parker’s men have now conceded 10 goals in their first three games and their defense never allowed them to take hold of the game as they were 2-0 in 15 minutes.
John McGinn’s well-weighted pass allowed Grealish to dodge the Fulham baseline and the House of England fired from a narrow angle.
McGinn was again the author of Villa’s place at the time, while his skilful dismissal perfectly propelled Hourihane to move to the farthest corner.
A looser defense allowed Mings to recoil Hurihane’s free kick to house 3 minutes in the part of the moment and even when Fulham received a response, the VAR rejected it.
Bobthrough Decordova-Reid hit the rebound after a rare driving error through Villa Emiliano Martinez’s goalkeeper in his game for the club after a reported move of 20 million pounds ($36 million) from Arsenal.
However, a foul through Aleksandar Mitrovic on Ezri Konsa sanctioned after an examination through the VAR.
The victory takes Villa to fourth place, sandwiched between Arsenal and Liverpool, who will meet later on Monday at Anfield.
⌛ Aston Villa won their first two PL games for the first time since 1999-2000, John Gregory pic. twitter. com/HAhHJANYs5
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