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Match 5 of 10: Manchester United vs Brighton

Result:  2 – 1

Goal Scorers:

  • Manchester United: Paul Pogba 27′ (P), Marcus Rashford 42′
  • Brighton: Pascal Grob 72′

Match Statistics:

Manchester United Team Stats Brighton
20 Shots 7
5 Shots On Target 3
57% Possession 43%
509 Passes 387
84% Pass Accuracy 79%
11 Fouls 11
1 Yellow Cards 0
0 Red Cards 0
1 Offsides 2
6 Corners 5

Highlights:

Premier League

  • Marcus Rashford graced his 150th Manchester United appearance with a strike he – and those inside Old Trafford – will recall forget. Goal No 41 of his vocation came just before the interim and guaranteed a seventh win from Ole Gunnar Solskjær’s opening seven matches in control.
  • Rashford’s victor came after Diogo Dalot moved along the left, drawing two safeguards, previously playing a smart ball to the 21-year-old. From that point Rashford turned on the style: in spite of a tight edge he made a cup of Pascal Gross, at that point beat David Button with a sweet twisted exertion.

  • Solskjær at first named his favored XI, which means no progressions from the success at Tottenham, yet Luke Shaw’s withdrawal because of sickness prompted Dalot’s incorporation, the Portuguese player opening in at left-back. Chris Hughton held a similar group that lost to Liverpool last Saturday.
  • United’s speed of passing and thought ruled a tranquil begin, with the guests asserting a corner and very little else. Ashley Young lifted a free-kick straight into the Stretford End, yet the skipper verged on making the opener with his next commitment.
  • A scraped cross came to Rashford by means of Gaëtan Bong and his shot was beaten away by Button, the risk in the end finishing when Paul Pogba’s ensuing exertion was blocked.

  • This whirlwind kicked off United. Pogba barely missed with an overhead kick, and not long after a Rashford chip verged on beating the meeting goalkeeper.
  • United ventured on the throttle and guaranteed a corner, Nemanja Matic terminating a 30-yard askew to Pogba. The midfielder’s first touch cleared the ball inside the region and Bong brought him down. After a respite the arbitrator, Paul Tierney, indicated the spot. Up ventured Pogba, with his trademark moderate movement rearrange run-up, to beat Button to one side.
  • Brighton’s reaction was to pepper United’s territory aeronautically and the home side pretty much managed it. At the point when Hughton’s side attempted some slide-rule stuff they cut an opportunity for Glenn Murray yet the No 9’s endeavor was a pea roller that gave David de Gea no reason for concern.

  • Button should have been ready when Anthony Martial attempted a throw that seemed to have him beaten before he stood out a glove to keep the score at 1-0. Next came Rashford’s strike and the second half’s opening demonstration likewise made them lead the pack.
  • This time he gathered the ball down the left, cut in, at that point hit a plunging cross in that Jesse Lingard ought to have wrapped up. The Rashford show may well have roused Martial as he cut through Brighton and let go an exertion that beat Button yet arrived on the top of the net.
  • On the hour Hughton supplanted Solly March and Murray with Anthony Knockaert and Florin Andone. Just like the path under Solskjær, however, United kept on squeezing. Young won a corner from his cross, took this, and Victor Lindelöf’s header went wide.
  • Brighton indicated spine by pulling one back: Davy Pröpper’s ball with the outside of his boot was missed by Phil Jones and Gross committed no error.

  • In spite of a cheeky completion neither did United in finishing the challenge off. Rashford took an excruciating thump from Martín Montoya however could proceed before being supplanted in included time by Matteo Darmian.
  • Whenever United beat Burnley on Tuesday week it will be their seventh straight group win, and Solskjær will pull in front of Carlo Ancelotti and Pep Guardiola as the director with the best begin to a Premier League tenure.

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Match 6 of 10: Bournemouth vs West Ham

Result:  2 – 0

Goal Scorers:

  • Bournemouth: Callum Wilson 53′, Joshua King 90+1′

Match Statistics:

Bournemouth Team Stats West Ham
10 Shots 9
4 Shots On Target 1
38% Possession 62%
362 Passes 584
76% Pass Accuracy 83%
6 Fouls 10
0 Yellow Cards 1
0 Red Cards 0
4 Offsides 3
2 Corners 3

Highlights:

Premier League

  • Bournemouth’s Callum Wilson crushed home a brilliant second-half volley and his strike accomplice Joshua King added one moment to give their side a truly necessary 2-0 home win over West Ham in their Premier League conflict.
  • With Bournemouth urgent to anchor their first group triumph in just about a month, Artur Boruc began in goal in front of Asmir Begovic while West Ham left agitated striker Marko Arnautovic, who has been connected with a major money move to China, out of their squad.

  • The two sides attempted to hit the goal in the primary half, yet West Ham’s Lukasz Fabianski made two eminent spares right off the bat in the second and minutes after the fact striker Andy Carroll, in for Arnautovic, bursted over from short proximity as the match opened up.
  • Wilson gave the home side the lead with a booming volley in the 54th moment, getting the ball flawlessly and leaving Fabianski attached to the spot as it flew into the upper right-hand corner for his tenth association goal of the season.

  • With West Ham assaulting and Bournemouth substance to play on the counter, Wilson nearly got a second in the 71st moment yet this time his first-time shot fell off the foot of the far post and moved to security.
  • The guests kept on leaving space at the back as they urgently pursued an equalizer, and King could opening the ball into a vacant net after a wonderful counter-assault to anchor each of the three points for Bournemouth.

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Match 7 of 10: Southampton vs Everton

Result:  2 – 1

Goal Scorers:

  • Southampton: James Ward-Prowse 50′, Lucas Digne 64′ (OG)
  • Everton: Gylfi Sigurdsson 90+1′

Match Statistics:

Southampton Team Stats Everton
11 Shots 7
4 Shots On Target 2
39% Possession 61%
302 Passes 475
68% Pass Accuracy 73%
12 Fouls 11
2 Yellow Cards 1
0 Red Cards 0
3 Offsides 2
7 Corners 6

Highlights:

Premier League

  • Southampton earned a significant 2-1 prevail upon Everton at St Mary’s however needed to bear a brazen completion as they supported their fight against Premier League transfer under arousing new manager Ralph Hasenhuettl.
  • James Ward-Prowse scored a wonderful individual goal soon after the break before a Lucas Digne own goal hoped to have easily fixed a merited success for the Saints in the 64th moment.

  • However a goal toward the beginning of stoppage time from Gylfi Sigurdsson gave the home fans an apprehensive completion as eight minutes was included, a lot to Hasenhuettl’s shock, while Everton pushed for the equalizer.
  • The success pushed Southampton into fifteenth place on 22 points, three clear of the transfer zone, as they won just their second home match of the season – both going under their new Austrian manager’s stewardship.
  • Southampton merited the success in the wake of overwhelming the primary half and twice striking the woodwork – first, as Nathan Redmond hit the post and after that as Andre Gomes hit his very own side’s upstanding while at the same time endeavoring to safeguard another assault from Danny Ings.
  • Saints got the reward for their venture when Ward-Prowse was given excessively opportunity to ravage towards the Everton goal and crushed a 50th-minute shot past goalkeeper Jordan Pickford.
  • The hapless Digne then toe-jabbed the ball past Pickford while urgently endeavoring to control an assault from the ever-risky Redmond in the 64th moment before Everton’s late assaults came to nothing.

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Match 8 of 10: Arsenal vs Chelsea

Result:  2 – 0

Goal Scorers:

  • Arsenal: Alexandre Lacazette 14′, Laurent Koscielny 39′

Match Statistics:

Arsenal Team Stats Chelsea
13 Shots 13
5 Shots On Target 1
35% Possession 65%
355 Passes 648
75% Pass Accuracy 87%
13 Fouls 15
0 Yellow Cards 2
0 Red Cards 0
1 Offsides 0
5 Corners 6

Highlights:

Premier League

  • This was an outcome celebrated with zeal by Arsenal, yet probably esteemed the same amount of from a remote place by an unfavorably resurgent Manchester United.
  • The quest for the Champions League capability places is gathering pace and, with the preferred standpoint over their closest opponents in fifth and 6th currently cut to a sensitive three points, Chelsea all of a sudden vibe as though they are stepping water. Their most recent stodgy and scoreless showcase had been rebuffed. Gonzalo Higuaín can’t arrive soon enough.
  • On the off chance that it was Arsenal’s entry point, swarming forward at pace to punch gaps in their rivals’ backline through an uneven first half, which adequately anchored the hosts this confidence boosting triumph following a troublesome week on and off the pitch, at that point it was Chelsea’s absence of chomp which guaranteed there would be no rebound to anchor equality.

  • Maurizio Sarri’s group, who struck the woodwork for a sixteenth time this term, did not gather a solitary shot on target and have not worked a goalkeeper in 113 minutes of best flight football.
  • Higuaín’s loan move, when inevitably affirmed from Juventus by means of Milan, should help, yet now and again it is difficult to assemble noticeable advancement in their methodology.
  • Their record is indistinguishable now to a similar stage last season when Antonio Conte’s residency seemed, by all accounts, to be unwinding. Furthermore, presently, troublingly, the pursuing pack have genuine expectation.
  • Arsenal’s scrape, having been redesignd by Manchester United’s triumph before toward the evening, had felt the more unsafe preceding commencement, however at any rate they diverted any uneasiness into a rankling first-half assaulting presentation. Their irate opening may have overwhelmed Chelsea.

  • There was excessively snap to their methodology, an excessive amount of vitality undulating through a precious stone midfield, tipped by Aaron Ramsey, and forceful bleeding edge. Everything left the guests winded as their endeavors to slip themselves delicately into the challenge went completely destroyed.=
  • The hosts had chances to score multiple times even previously, as the quarter-hour stamp drew closer, Alexandre Lacazette gathered Héctor Bellerín’s inside extravagantly on his instep in the midst of a messiness of adversaries’ bodies.
  • The Frenchman, at first with his back to goal, curved sagaciously far from Pedro Rodríguez and past Marcos Alonso’s irresolute endeavor to square. With the edge all of a sudden terribly tight, he spat away a shot which tore high inside Kepa Arrizabalaga’s close post with the goalkeeper pawing at outside air.

  • It was an earnest completion to set the tone, adjusting for prior misses by Sokratis Papastathopoulos and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, just as Laurent Koscielny’s powerlessness to control a free header past Kepa from Lucas Torreira’s sans fine kick.
  • His endeavor had struck the goalkeeper, with Aubameyang doing moreover in the wake of gaining by César Azpilicueta’s messiness under lock and key to blast free minutes after Arsenal’s lead had been set up. Each assault the home side summoned had undermined to tear separated a uniquely delicate Chelsea group.
  • Had Arsenal’s lead been thin at the interim then Unai Emery may have protested his way back to the changing area in dissatisfaction. Rather, Papastathopoulos’ hopeful shot a little ways from the interim transformed into an adroit cross with Koscielny, free again as he stooped on the edge of the six-yard box, really circling in his side’s second goal – unrealistically off his correct shoulder with Kepa static and uncovered.
  • All similarity to protective control seemed to have depleted from those before him, a fatigued David Luiz’s wild test on Ramsey in the development to that second goal rather summing up an aggregate absence of poise.

  • A group again utilizing Eden Hazard as an awkward No 9 had played with an equalizer back when the deficiency remained at just a single, Pedro heaving over Bernd Leno however imperceptibly wide of the far post having been freed by a heavenly David Luiz go from profound.
  • The Brazilian had ostensibly been the guests’ most sharp imaginative power, pushing up into midfield when he could to impact the play with those trademark arced passes. He had been in the penalty zone as Marcos Alonso jumped to meet Willian’s corner in first-half stoppage time, with the full-back’s endeavor ricocheting back off the woodwork.
  • The memory of that close miss pushed Maurizio Sarri’s group on upon the restart at the same time, with their cutting edge without a point of convergence to disrupt Papastathopoulos and Koscielny until the tardy presentation of Olivier Giroud, the danger was fairly erratic.

  • Without a doubt, Arsenal were increasingly agitated by the loss of Bellerín to what showed up genuine knee damage, the full-back contorting his left leg unadroitly as he kept running at pace. He would leave on a stretcher, with Hazard and Marcos Alonso promptly detecting chance up against the youth Ainsley Maitland-Niles on that flank.
  • However Pedro skied high and wide, Leno beat away a progression of bubbled low focuses, and Giroud air-kicked from a satisfactory position before goal. With completing this slack, the home side were never prone to be injured.

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