London (AFP)
Arsenal fell into a 2-2 draw with Fulham, who played the final minutes with ten players, in the third stage of the England Football Championship, while Manchester United returned from afar in front of its guest Nottingham Forest, and came away winning 3-2.
Arsenal, last season’s runner-up, wasted their first points this season, after two wins in the first two stages, over Nottingham Forest 2-1, and over its neighbor Crystal Palace 1-0, before the upcoming meeting next week against Manchester United.
At the Emirates Stadium in north London, not a minute had passed, until Brazilian midfielder Andreas Pereira took advantage of a defensive mistake, then Arsenal goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdell went out of his goal, to score from outside the area, and Arsenal waited until the 70th minute to get a penalty kick, Bukayo Saka equalized, before Eddie Nketiah added the second two minutes later, taking advantage of a cross from Portuguese Fabio Vieira.
Fulham’s task was complicated when the referee fired Fulham’s Nigerian defender Calvin Bassi in the 83rd minute, but Fulham refused to lose, and succeeded in equalizing, through Portuguese midfielder Joao Paulinha, inundating the ball from close range into the net (87).
And at Old Trafford, Nottingham stunned its host Manchester United with two quick goals in the first four minutes, through its burly Nigerian striker Taiwo Owunii, who walked the ball from the middle of the field, to single out Cameroonian goalkeeper Andre Onana and open the scoring after two minutes had passed, and Ivorian defender Willy quickly added. Pauli II, taking advantage of a corner he followed with his opinion into the net.
Manchester United threw all his weight to compensate, and his Danish playmaker, Christian Eriksen, succeeded in reducing the difference, when he took advantage of Marcus Rashford’s individual effort on the wing to wink it into the net «17», and after Brazilian Casemiro missed a goal, when he played a header outside the three woods and the goal was open in front of him. In the first half, he managed to equalize, after an elaborate pass from Portuguese team captain Bruno Fernandez (52).
“United” took advantage of the numerical shortage in the ranks of its opponent, as a result of the expulsion of defender Joe Worrall, after he roughed Fernandez heading for the “67th” goal, before the latter scored nine minutes later from a penalty kick for roughness with Rashford inside the “76th” area.
Tottenham continued its good start with its new Australian coach, Ange Postecoglou, and in the absence of its top scorer, Harry Kane, who moved to Bayern Munich in a huge deal, by defeating Bournemouth 2-0, and Everton suffered its third consecutive loss this season by falling at home to Liverpool 0-1, and it concludes The stage on Sunday, Burnley will meet Aston Villa, Sheffield United with Manchester City, the “defending champion”, and Newcastle United with Liverpool.
2023-08-26 16:56:08
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