As for Leicester, the champions are still searching for the first win of their title defense after a 0-0 draw at home to Arsenal, in a game between the top two teams from last season.
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Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool enjoyed the most eye-catching result of the Premier League’s opening weekend when they won 4-3 at Arsenal.
Substitute Batshuayi equalized in the 80th-minute with his first goal for the club before Costa, who scored a late victor against West Ham United Monday, finished calmly three minutes from time after being found by another sub, Cesc Fabregas.
On 52 minutes Utd doubled their lead, Jordi Clasie punished for a silly trip on the surging Luke Shaw with the award of a penalty and Ibrahimovic demanded the ball before sweeping home the spot-kick.
“How can I be happy with this?”
‘It’s not enough to receive the ball from his team-mates, he has to help us in the first pressure and run a lot and help us a lot with movement. “I did well. I won’t always start because of the other guys in the squad but the most important thing is we all worked together in the same direction and in the end we had a good win”.
Pep Guardiola is surprised at just how quickly his Manchester City side have gelled after they maintained their 100 percent start to the season with a 4-1 victory at Stoke City. Stoke can thrive on a good target man up front but we will have to wait and see if Hughes chooses to alter his squad before the transfer window closes. “There is time to get better”.
– Willy Caballero has kept just five clean sheets in 24 games for Manchester City (all comps).
Pep Guardiola was delighted with Manchester City’s display at Stoke and believes there is plenty more to come from his squad.
A very convincing penalty shout was turned away by the referee after Otamendi bundled over Allen in the box much to the disgust of the Stoke players. Shawcorss was judged to have pulled Otamendi in the penalty area, and the referee whistled for a penalty.
But Chelsea striker Michy Batshuayi came off the bench to equalise for Antonio Conte’s side in the 80th minute after Heurelho Gomes weakly parried Eden Hazard’s shot.
Aguero has three league goals already this season, along with Man United’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic, while Costa has also scored in his first two games. He headed a second after 36 minutes.
The Blues boss has revealed that Robles is “disappointed” at losing his No1 spot to new signing Maarten Stekelenburg, who was again impressive in yesterday’s 2-1 win over West Bromwich Albion at the Hawthorns.
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Southampton should probably have taken the lead when the game was scoreless, Nathan Redmond’s cross to Dusan Tadic would have been nodded into an open goal were it not for the former over-hitting it, while Tadic’s sharp first-time ball released Long but the Ireland forward’s shot was weak and easy for de Gea.
