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Leaders Liverpool held off a second-half fightback to win 2-1 at Chelsea Sunday and maintain their perfect start to the season.
Trent Alexander-Arnold and Roberto Firmino scored the vital goals as Liverpool made it six wins out of six this season - and 15 Premier League wins in a row - to restore their five-point lead at the top of the table.
“It was massive for us, I think,” Alexander-Arnold said. “We had a setback midweek (losing to Napoli in the Champions League) but bounced back and showed we’re a really good side.
“We were prepared to have a tough second half, they’re a good side. Last 25-30 minutes was really tough, we had to defend well and were able to see it out. Fifteen wins (in a row) shows what side we’re are. Eighteen points out of 18 is good going and hopefully we’ll keep going.”
Arsenal climbed to fourth after a 3-2 win over Aston Villa, despite playing almost an hour with 10 men.
Manchester United’s poor start continued as they were beaten 2-0 at West Ham while Crystal Palace drew 1-1 with Wolves.
Liverpool were 2-0 up at half-time at Stamford Bridge through a superb free kick from Alexander-Arnold and a header from Firmino.
Chelsea had a goal ruled out for offside when it was 1-0 and reduced the deficit in the second half when N’Golo Kante fired the ball into the top corner with 20 minutes to go.
That sparked a frenzy of Chelsea attacks but they couldn’t find the equalizer and Liverpool moved clear again at the top while the hosts slipped to 11th.
“Didn’t deserve to lose, possibly could have won,” Chelsea manager Frank Lampard said.
“I don’t want to sound naive, because details. Performance wise I thought we were the better team, kept pushing.
“Three points is gone but let’s use of this and take it forward becaus if we play like that week in, week out, we’ll be OK. We should be proud of the performance but we don’t want to lose games.”
Ten-man Arsenal twice came from behind to beat Aston Villa and take a place in the top four.
John McGinn put Villa in front and though Ainsley Maitland-Miles was sent off before half-time, Arsenal equalized through Nicolas Pepe.
Wesley restored Villa’s lead almost immediately but Calum Chambers levelled and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang won it for Arsenal with six minutes to go.
“The win is massive for us as a club and team,” Chambers said.
“We have the quality and the spirit. We dug in deep to get the momentum going.”
Andriy Yarmolenko and Aaron Cresswell scored the goals as West Ham moved up to fifth with a well deserved win over United, who dropped to seventh after their second defeat in six matches.
United manager Ole Gunnar Solsjkaer bemoaned his side’s inability to take their chances.
“(They had) two great finishes but of course we could have done better defending them and we should have, could have scored ourselves,” he said.
“When you lose a game you’re disappointed. It’s always a difficult ground to go to and we hoped to do better than we did.
“We hoped for better, but in the key moments they grasped it and we didn’t. They had two fantastic finishes from two left feet and we didn’t take our chances when we had them.”
And United suffered insult to injury as striker Marcus Rashford suffered a groin problem, which will be scanned on Monday.
“I don’t know how long he’ll be out, I’m not a doctor. But he’ll probably be out for a little while.” Diogo Jota scored in the fifth minute of injury time to give Wolves a draw at Crystal Palace, despite having Romain Saiss sent off 17 minutes from the end.
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Leaders Liverpool held off a second-half fightback to win 2-1 at Chelsea Sunday and maintain their perfect start to the season.
Trent Alexander-Arnold and Roberto Firmino scored the vital goals as Liverpool made it six wins out of six this season - and 15 Premier League wins in a row - to restore their five-point lead at the top of the table.
“It was massive for us, I think,” Alexander-Arnold said. “We had a setback midweek (losing to Napoli in the Champions League) but bounced back and showed we’re a really good side.
“We were prepared to have a tough second half, they’re a good side. Last 25-30 minutes was really tough, we had to defend well and were able to see it out. Fifteen wins (in a row) shows what side we’re are. Eighteen points out of 18 is good going and hopefully we’ll keep going.”
Arsenal climbed to fourth after a 3-2 win over Aston Villa, despite playing almost an hour with 10 men.
Manchester United’s poor start continued as they were beaten 2-0 at West Ham while Crystal Palace drew 1-1 with Wolves.
Liverpool were 2-0 up at half-time at Stamford Bridge through a superb free kick from Alexander-Arnold and a header from Firmino.
Chelsea had a goal ruled out for offside when it was 1-0 and reduced the deficit in the second half when N’Golo Kante fired the ball into the top corner with 20 minutes to go.
That sparked a frenzy of Chelsea attacks but they couldn’t find the equalizer and Liverpool moved clear again at the top while the hosts slipped to 11th.
“Didn’t deserve to lose, possibly could have won,” Chelsea manager Frank Lampard said.
“I don’t want to sound naive, because details. Performance wise I thought we were the better team, kept pushing.
“Three points is gone but let’s use of this and take it forward becaus if we play like that week in, week out, we’ll be OK. We should be proud of the performance but we don’t want to lose games.”
Ten-man Arsenal twice came from behind to beat Aston Villa and take a place in the top four.
John McGinn put Villa in front and though Ainsley Maitland-Miles was sent off before half-time, Arsenal equalized through Nicolas Pepe.
Wesley restored Villa’s lead almost immediately but Calum Chambers levelled and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang won it for Arsenal with six minutes to go.
“The win is massive for us as a club and team,” Chambers said.
“We have the quality and the spirit. We dug in deep to get the momentum going.”
Andriy Yarmolenko and Aaron Cresswell scored the goals as West Ham moved up to fifth with a well deserved win over United, who dropped to seventh after their second defeat in six matches.
United manager Ole Gunnar Solsjkaer bemoaned his side’s inability to take their chances.
“(They had) two great finishes but of course we could have done better defending them and we should have, could have scored ourselves,” he said.
“When you lose a game you’re disappointed. It’s always a difficult ground to go to and we hoped to do better than we did.
“We hoped for better, but in the key moments they grasped it and we didn’t. They had two fantastic finishes from two left feet and we didn’t take our chances when we had them.”
And United suffered insult to injury as striker Marcus Rashford suffered a groin problem, which will be scanned on Monday.
“I don’t know how long he’ll be out, I’m not a doctor. But he’ll probably be out for a little while.” Diogo Jota scored in the fifth minute of injury time to give Wolves a draw at Crystal Palace, despite having Romain Saiss sent off 17 minutes from the end.
