Two goals and assist for Timber at victory Arsenal, City loses at home from Spurs

Arsenal has also won the second game of the season in the English Premier League. After the difficult victory over Manchester United last weekend, the London people easily defeated Leeds United on Saturday evening 5-0. Jurriën Timber was important with two goals and an assist.

The Noord-London club, which finally wants to become a champion this season, climbed through the victory to the first place in the ranking, in points equal to rival Tottenham Hotspur that on Saturday Manchester City vlaagoeg. Liverpool and Nottingham Forest can also be on six points this weekend.

A disappointment for Arsenal was the injured failure of two important players. Before the break, captain Martin Ødegaard had to go to the side with a shoulder injury. Bukayo Saka was also injured soon after the break.

Furthermore, it was a party evening for The Gunners who started after half an hour when Timber headed in the 1-0. His assist on Saka’s 2-0 was a neat pass and soon after the break the very expensive Swedish purchase Viktor Gyökeres pushed his first inside after a handsome dribble (3-0).

Shortly after the failure of Saka, Timber worked his second of the evening inside, a fringle goal from a corner (4-0). And then Arsenal coach Mikel Arteta thought it was time for something very rare.

The Spaniard had attacker Max Dowman invaded, who was only 15 years and 235 days old. With his Premier League debut, he became the second youngest debutant ever. Only Arsenal midfielder Ethan Nwaneri, came in for the injured Ødegaard, was even younger in 2022, namely 15 years and 181 days.

Downman decorated another penalty in injury time, which was used by Gyökeres (5-0).

A nice football evening for Arsenal, but with a aftertaste due to the failure of Ødegaard and Saka. They can use them well in the coming series of tricky matches, against Liverpool (off), Nottingham Forest (home), City (home) and Newcastle United (off).

Earlier in the day, Tottenham Hotspur won 0-2 at Manchester City. In the Etihad Stadium, the Londoners beat the home team after two goals in the first half.

Both teams have had a disappointing season, this summer pulled the wallet to give the team new impetus and started the competition last week.

The formation of Pep Guardiola was the youngest since October 2010 with an average age of 24 years and 263 days. Tijjani Reijnders started in the base and Nathan Aké had to replace the injured Rayan Ait Nouri early.

City got a few good shooting opportunities via Omar Marmoush, but the visitors took a 2-0 lead before the break. Brennan Johnson completed a good counter. City goalkeeper James Trafford, came from Burnley, gave Tottenham the second goal by wasting the ball just in front of his own goal. Tottenham recovery João Palhinha benefited.

After the break it was not much better on the City side. Also the introduction of Phil Foden, Rodri and Jérémy Doku did not take care of the connection goal.

On Saturday, a significant part of the 34 Dutch people entered the English fields in the Premier League. Especially in the duel of Brentford with Aston Villa, many Dutch people came in. Sepp van den Berg played the entire game at Brentford as the central defender, who won his team 1-0 thanks to an early goal from Dango Ouattara.

In the second half, Ian Maatsen, Donyell Malen and Lamare Bogarde fell into Aston Villa to turn the backlog, but that didn’t work. At Brentford, Antoni Milambo stayed on the couch for the entire game, while a dug-out further on the same applied to Villa goalkeeper Marco Bizot.

Also in the match between AFC Bournemouth and Wolverhampton Wanderers, the decisive goal quickly fell. After four minutes, Marcus Tavernier scored, who was replaced fifteen minutes before time by Justin Kluivert. At the Wolves, right wing defender Ki-Jana however had dropped out before half time with an injury.

Another Dutch back had a better afternoon. Quillindschy Hartman started for the second game in a row in the base at his new club Burnley, which won 2-0 from Sunderland at home. At Sunderland, goalkeeper Robin Roefs also started in the base and saw fellow countryman Jenson Seelt as a central defender within half an hour. Zian Flemming did not get off the couch at Burnley.