LONDON —
Arsenal moved back to the top of the Premier
League with a dominant 3–0 win at Brentford, while Everton beat West Ham 1–0 to
get their first victory of the season on Sunday.
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Injuries to captain
Martin Odegaard and Oleksandr
Zinchenko had stretched Arsenal’s squad to the extent that 15-year-old Ethan
Nwaneri came off the bench late to become the youngest player in Premier League
history.
However, the Gunners showed no sign of weakness at a
ground where they were beaten 2–0 last season to move back one point above
Manchester City and Tottenham at the top of the table.
William Saliba and Gabriel Jesus headed in before
half-time, and Fabio Vieira marked his first Premier League start with a
stunning strike after the break.
Brentford boss Thomas Frank said he believes Arsenal
will be title contenders and they played like it to blow away the Bees in the
first 45 minutes.
“We have a different mentality this season,” said
Arsenal midfielder Granit Xhaka. “We are training like we play and have class
with the players that can make a difference.”
The match had been moved forward two hours to help
ease police pressures around
Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral and Britain’s
longest-serving monarch was remembered in a minute’s silence before kick-off.
Once the action did get underway, it was one-way
traffic as Arsenal bounced back in style from their sole defeat of the season
away to Manchester United two weeks ago.
It took just 17 minutes for Mikel Arteta’s men to
make the breakthrough when Saliba flicked Bukayo Saka’s corner in off the far
post.
Jesus also used his head to score his fourth goal in seven Premier League
games since joining from Manchester City as he powered home an enticing
delivery from Xhaka.
‘Gut feeling’ on Nwaneri
The absence of Odegaard also
made room for Vieira and the Portuguese midfielder made his mark with a
sumptuous strike from outside the box to kill off any doubt over the outcome
four minutes into the second half.
An easy day for
Arsenal was rounded off a minute from time when Arteta was able to hand Nwaneri
his debut as just 15 years and 181 days, breaking Harvey Elliott’s record as
the youngest player in Premier League history when he appeared for Fulham as a
16-year-old.
“It was a pure gut feeling,” said Arteta on handing
Nwaneri a debut.
“Yesterday he had to come because we have injuries,
especially the injury of Martin and then I had that feeling from yesterday that
if the opportunity could come that I was going to do it.”
At the other end of the table, West Ham will spend
the upcoming international break in the bottom three after
Neal Maupay’s first
Everton goal gave the Toffees a much-needed win.
Frank Lampard’s men are now unbeaten in five league
games but had just four points on the board before kick-off from four
consecutive draws.
An injury to Dominic Calvert-Lewin forced Everton to
seek more firepower in the final weeks of the transfer window and Maupay
delivered on just his second appearance since a move from Brighton.
The Frenchman spun onto Alex Iwobi’s pass and fired
in from the edge of the area to lift Everton up to 13th in the table.
West Ham slip to 18th with just one win from their opening
seven league games.
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