Bournemouth - Arsenal

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It has been far too easy for the visitors up to this point. It's damage limitation for the home side now as Arsenal look to add to their tally. As does Smith, who has also gone into the book for catching Martinelli. The Bournemouth man challenges Saka from behind and concedes a free-kick to Arsenal in a dangerous area just outside the box. The second half is underway at the Vitality with Arsenal in the driving seat and Bournemouth looking for a way back into the match. A third goal for the Gunners before half-time would surely signal the end of this contest however, a goal for Bournemouth changes the dynamic of the second half. It was a very tight one! Bournemouth need to try and get on the front foot early in this second half and force Arsenal to do some defending of their own. Xhaka pulls the ball back to the edge of the box and Saliba curls a delightful left-footed effort into the far postage stamp. Can the Cherries find a consolation as we enter the final ten minutes of the match or will Arsenal find themselves a fourth goal? Two changes for Arsenal in the last knockings of the match. The hosts have faced two top quality opposition in the last two weeks and will take a lot from their experiences, which they can use going forward for the rest of the season.

Published: Aug. 20, 2022, 8:41 a.m.. Bukayo Saka. Arsenal's Bukayo Saka, right, celebrates with teammate Martin Odegaard after scoring their side's ...

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Arsenal made it three straight wins to open the Premier League season by beating Bournemouth 3-0 with Martin Odegaard setting the team on its way with two ...

Arsenal is the only team to start with a maximum nine points. It contrasts to last season, when Arsenal opened with three straight losses to leave Mikel Arteta’s job under threat. BOURNEMOUTH, England — Arsenal made it three straight wins to open the Premier League season by beating Bournemouth 3-0, with Martin Odegaard setting the team on its way with two goals inside 11 minutes on Saturday.

Mikel Arteta's new talisman, Gabriel Jesus looks worth every penny of the £45M it took to acquire him. Fun fact: this weekend he becomes the first player ever ...

Some of the chatter coming out of the first two Arsenal matches centers on potentially slow starts to the season for Martin Ødegaard and Bukayo Saka on the right side of the attack. Emile Smith Rowe, Fabio Vieira, and Cedric all featured for the U21s on Wednesday and could be available for selection today. It’s tough to play on the road in the Premier League, and the Gunners shouldn’t be dropping points to newly promoted clubs expected to be in the relegation battle. Some have speculated that Takehiro Tomiyasu might return to his spot at right back because he’s comparatively stronger in the air than Ben White, although the England man gets a bit of a bum rap — he’s better with his head than he gets credit for. Fun fact #2: Arsenal have named the youngest starting XI in the league for the first two matchdays and look set to do the same again today. [Aston Villa](https://7500toholte.sbnation.com) side 2-0 to open the season, then were thoroughly humbled 4-0 by [Manchester City](https://bitterandblue.sbnation.com).

APerhaps scariest for many Premier League teams (and Bournemouth supporters)? Arsenal rarely looked like it had to shift into second gear.

The Gunners have now scored multiple goals in all three Premier League games this season as well as all five preseason matches (five vs Nurnberg, two vs Everton, three vs Orlando City, four vs Chelsea, and six against Sevilla). What a shame that we won’t see Odegaard and Erling Haaland leading Norway into the World Cup. Gabriel Jesus: We kid you not, the ex-Man City man is looking like a slightly-smaller Kylian Mbappe through three matches in an Arsenal shirt. Arsenal has attack to go unbeaten for a while: Crystal Palace, Leicester City, and now Bournemouth have looked largely ill-fit to deal with the new-look Arsenal attack, and Gabriel Jesus and Oleksandr Zinchenko are looking like players sprung from their cages, chrome-wheeled, fuel-injected, and stepping out over the line (Zinchenko, to be fair, could’ve used with a bit less freedom at times on Saturday). And that meant that Arsenal could attack with almost the entire team. Bournemouth is not one of these teams, at least when it comes to the Premier League’s best.

Read the report from our Premier League game at the Vitality Stadium as a Martin Odegaard brace sets us on our way to victory.

And six minutes later, the dream start for us and our captain continued as he grabbed a second to put us in firm control. Copyright 2022 The Arsenal Football Club plc. The opening goal came after five minutes, courtesy of a piece of Brazilian magic. Odegaard is the third Arsenal player to score twice in the first 11 minutes of a Premier League match, after Kanu in October 2002 vs Sunderland and Eddie Nketiah vs Leeds in May. However, the win had long-been secured, and with the clean sheet also in the bag, it meant we won our first two away league games without conceding a goal for the first time since 1993/94, and in the process moving us up to the Premier League summit. On 51 minutes we won a free-kick on and Martinelli drove down the right before firing a cross over to Xhaka at the back post to lay the ball off to the Frenchman, who promptly curled it into the top corner to register his first goal in our colours and clinch the win.

Arsenal's brilliant start to the season continued Saturday with a slick, impressive win at Bournemouth that has fans dreaming of a title challenge.

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