Arsenal scored 3 valuable points by emerging victorious 3-1 in the summit match of the fourth stage of the Premier League at home to Manchester United, while Liverpool achieved its third successive victory with a valuable and deserved 3-0 victory over its guest Aston Villa, and Crystal Palace snatched an important victory 3-2 over Guest Wolverhampton.
At the “Emirates” stadium, after the first half ended with a positive draw 1-1, things turned around in the last minutes of the second half, as the video technology referee canceled a goal for Manchester United, and then Arsenal responded by scoring two quick goals in stoppage time.
Marcus Rashford advanced with a goal for United after a quick counterattack in the 27th minute, but Martin Odegaard equalized for Arsenal one minute later thanks to a powerful ground shot.
It seemed that the match would end in a 1-1 draw, but the last minutes witnessed great excitement, as Argentine substitute Alejandro Garanacho scored a goal for United in the 87th minute, which was canceled by the video referee for offside, and in stoppage time, Declan Rice succeeded; He joined Arsenal this summer in a huge deal, taking advantage of a corner kick from Bukayo Saka, receiving the ball without interfering with the opponent’s defense and firing a powerful shot into the net of goalkeeper Andre Onana in the 6th minute of stoppage time. In the 11th minute of stoppage time, and from a quick counterattack, Brazilian Gabriel Jesus singled out Onana’s goal and quietly hit the ball into the net.
Arsenal advanced to fifth place with 10 points, two points behind Manchester City, the leaders, title holders and holders of the full mark, while United fell to 11th place with 6 points from 4 matches.
At home and in his 300th match under the leadership of German coach Jurgen Klopp, Liverpool achieved a remarkable 3-0 victory over Aston Villa, raising its score to 10 points in third place, two points behind leaders Manchester City with a perfect record so far.
The victory is the third in a row for Liverpool after a draw in its opening match against its host Chelsea.
Liverpool played the match without the heart of its defense; Dutchman Virgil van Dijk and Frenchman Ibrahima Konate; The first due to suspension after he was sent off last week, and the second due to injury, so Cameroonian Joel Matip and Joe Gomez played in their place.
And after he scored a brace against Newcastle in the final minutes after coming off the bench to give his team a dramatic 2-1 victory, Uruguayan striker Darwin Nunez started at the expense of Dutchman Cody Gakbo. Liverpool’s start was a thunderbolt. After he got a corner kick after a mistake in distraction by Spanish defender Pau Torres, the ball reached Hungarian Dominique Subosulai, and he fired it with his strong left and settled into the net after 3 minutes had passed.
Liverpool continued its absolute advantage and succeeded in adding the second goal with friendly fire when Nunez hit a ball that bounced off the crossbar and hit the leg of Polish Patty Cash and turned into the net in the 22nd minute.
Nunez almost added the third goal, but the crossbar stood against the ball, which he hit late in the first half.
And at the beginning of the second half, the Egyptian Mohamed Salah finally decided the result in the interest of his team when he slipped behind the defenders at the far post and winked the ball into the net, taking advantage of a header from Nunez in the 55th minute.
According to the statistics; Salah became the first player in the English Premier League to contribute to scoring or assisting goals in 10 consecutive matches or more since he achieved this between August and December 2021.
Salah started the season by making a goal against Chelsea in the opening match before scoring in Bournemouth in the second round and making the winning goal against Newcastle United in the previous round. He also scored 3 goals and made 5 goals in the last 6 matches of last season.
Salah scored 14 goals and provided 8 assists in 15 consecutive matches. Starting from the third round until the 17th round of the 2021-2022 season.
Salah, who was at the center of media speculation about the possibility of his transfer in a huge deal to the Saudi Al-Ittihad club, raised his tally to 188 goals in his busy career with Liverpool.
On the other hand, Aston Villa, who suffered its second loss in the competition this season against two victories, stopped at 6 points in eleventh place.
And in a third match; French striker Odson Edouard scored two goals to lead Crystal Palace to a 3-2 win over Wolverhampton.
After a low-level first half, Palace opened the scoring after Terek Mitchell kicked off from the left side and sent a perfect cross, which Edwar turned into a close-range goal in the 56th minute.
Wolverhampton equalized through substitute Hwang Hee-chan with a header, but Palace scored in the 78th minute when Ibriche Eze showed great individual potential and skillfully controlled Jean-Philippe Matita’s pass before firing a shot past goalkeeper Jose Sa.
Palace settled the victory after exchanging roles with Matita and scored quietly into the net near the end, but Matthews Konya narrowed the difference for the visiting team after 6 minutes of stoppage time.
2023-09-04 00:09:37
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