(AFP) - Arsenal regained the lead in the English Premier League in football from defending champion Manchester City, with a remarkable victory outside its home stadium over its London neighbor Chelsea 1-0 on Sunday in the fifteenth stage, which witnessed the leadership of Egyptian Mohamed Salah for his team, Liverpool, to a victory over its host, Tottenham 2. -1, and a wonderful start for Spanish coach Unai Emery with Aston Villa, by defeating Manchester United 3-1.
Arsenal raised its tally to 34 points, two points ahead of Manchester City, who beat Fulham 2-1 on Saturday, while Chelsea remained seventh with 21 points after failing to win a fourth consecutive match.
And the Spanish coach of Arsenal, Mikel Arteta, who played his 150 match as coach of the team, was the same number of games he played with him as a player, happy with this “great victory for us. It is another step for us as a team. To come here to face a team of high caliber and to perform and win, this will be granted.” Young men, more faith” in the team’s ability to try to win the first title since 2004 and the days of French coach Arsene Wenger.
He continued, "We are a really young team, but we showed a lot of composure and courage on the way we played in this stadium. I am really impressed. We were under pressure to get back to the top, and what we did today was unbelievable."
Arsenal was the better side for most of the match, in a match that did not witness many chances, except for a dangerous one for the guests, when Brazilian Gabriel Martinelli raised a perfect ball inside the area, so his compatriot Gabriel Jesus slipped behind the Chelsea defenders and turned his head outside the three sticks, and the goal was open in front of him at the end of the first half.
In the second half, Chelsea coach Graham Potter sent off Gabonese striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, former Arsenal player, and replaced him with Albanian Armando Broja. Arsenal succeeded in opening the scoring when Bukayo Saka lifted the ball from a corner kick that passed everyone, and Brazilian defender Gabriel followed it into the net from close range (63).
Arsenal's Norwegian playmaker Martin Odegaard wasted a good opportunity to boost his team's lead when he curled a ball that passed to the right post (74).
Emery made a great start with his new team, Aston Villa, as successor to Stephen Gerrard, by leading him to his first home victory in the league against Manchester United since August 19, 1995, by defeating him 3-1, which is the same result as his last victory over the “Red Devils” among his fans in “ Premier League".
And in a match that United started with the participation of Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo as a key player, while also wearing the captain’s armband, Jacob Ramsey caught the eye, after he became, according to “Opta” statistics, only the fourth player in the history of the Premier League to score for his team and his own goal by mistake and make a decisive pass in the same match, after Kevin Davis (December 2008), Welshman Gareth Bale (November 2012) and Wayne Rooney (October 2012).
Ramsey played the role of a passer in Villa's first goal in the match, which was scored by Jamaican Leon Bailey since the 7th minute, then after French Luca Digne added the second from a beautiful free kick (11), the 21-year-old restored hope to United when the ball turned from him after a shot from Luke Shaw and deceived His Argentine goalkeeper, Emiliano Martinez (45), before himself restored the difference to two goals at the beginning of the second half, after a pass from Olly Watkins (49).
With this result, thanks to which he raised his score to 15 points in thirteenth place, Villa inflicted a first defeat on the team of Dutch coach Eric ten Hag in his last 9 matches locally and continually, and the fourth this season, to freeze his score at 23 points in fifth place, before the date between them was renewed Thursday. In the third round of the League Cup, this time at Old Trafford.
Ten Hag was not satisfied with what he saw from his team, saying, "It is not acceptable to concede a goal so quickly at the beginning of the second half on the counterattack. Our players are experienced and you have to win individual matches. They (Villa) looked as if they were more physically fit. It is unacceptable. On Players take responsibility and be ready."
After two successive defeats against Nottingham and Leeds, life returned to Liverpool by defeating Tottenham in the latter's stronghold 2-1, thanks to its top scorer, Salah, who scored both goals.
The first came after a beautiful collective game and a pass inside the area from Uruguayan Darwin Nunes (11), and the second came after a ball that arrived directly from Brazilian goalkeeper Allison on the outskirts of the London team’s area, so Eric Dyer missed his vertical pass towards his French goalkeeper Hugo Lloris, so the “Pharaoh” kidnapped it and played it in the ball. The net (40), scoring his sixth goal in the league this season and his fourteenth in 20 matches in all competitions.
Salah told British Sky Sports, "I think we were lucky in the first half. We played well and scored two goals. We could have scored in the second half but we weren't lucky. We did a good job by getting the three points... I'm focused on creating The difference is that I made it today."
Tottenham returned to the atmosphere of the meeting in the second half, thanks to its top scorer, Harry Kane, after a pass from Swedish substitute Diane Koloshevsky (70), but his eleventh goal in the league this season was not enough in the end to deny Liverpool its first victory away from home and the fifth in total, to raise the German coach’s team. Jürgen Klopp scored 19 points in eighth place, while the balance of his London host froze at 26 points after receiving his fourth defeat of the season.
Newcastle took full advantage of the fall of Spurs and snatched third place from it after Newcastle continued its brilliance by defeating Southampton with four goals for Paraguayan Miguel Almiron, who raised his tally to 8 goals (35), New Zealander Chris Wood (58), Joe Willock (62) and Brazilian Bruno Guimarães (2). +90), against a goal by Frenchman Romain Peru (89).
Crystal Palace snatched a fatal victory from its host and London neighbor, West Ham, 2-1, thanks to the goal of Frenchman Michael Ulis (4 + 90).