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Before we look ahead to today’s action, let’s drop in a bit of Arsenal reaction. They were at their destructive best against Leeds last night. Here’s Jacob Steinberg assessing the new Mikel Arteta era at the Emirates.
Yesterday's headlines
Let’s start with a quick reminder of what happened yesterday:
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Pep Guardiola was forced to defend James Trafford after the goalkeeper’s error in Manchester City’s 2-0 home defeat by Tottenham
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Arsenal’s 5-0 thrashing of Leeds was tainted by injuries to Bukayo Saka and Martin Ødegaard, causing concern for Mikel Arteta
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Burnley saw off Sunderland 2-0 at Turf Moor to pick up their first victory since returning to the top flight
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Brentford beat a blunt Aston Villa 1-0 to give Keith Andrews his first win as Bees boss; Bournemouth sunk Wolves by the same score
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In La Liga, Barcelona battled back from 2-0 down to beat Levante but Marcus Rashford was hooked at half-time on his full Blaugrana debut
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In the Championship, Coventry announced they had bought their stadium – and celebrated in fine style by thrashing QPR 7-1; Abdul Fatawu’s stunner secured three points for Leicester at Charlton
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And in the Bundesliga, Harry Kane (three), Michael Olise (two) and Luis Díaz were on target as Bayern Munich hammered RB Leipzig 6-0.
Preamble
Morning all. Welcome to another of these matchday live blogs, the place where we pull together all our weekend football reaction, buildup and general chat around fixtures, and where you’re always encouraged to drop us an email and join the conversation. The idea is that we’re your one-stop-shop on matchday mornings and beyond – well… until the games kick off.
And it feels like the Premier League season really got started yesterday. We had wins for hitherto written-off Burnley and Brentford, an actual 15-year-old starring for Arsenal and a surprise result at the Etihad (if you can call another Spurs win away at Manchester City a surprise – they’ve done it three times in the last three-and-a-half years).
There’s plenty going on today, too. Everton make their league debut in their shiny new ground, the Hill Dickinson Stadium, Nottingham Forest travel to Selhust Park amid rumours surrounding Nuno Espírito Santo’s future as manager, and Manchester United will be playing football, which is always entertaining as long as you don’t support Manchester United.
Let us know how you’re taking in today’s action and any wild predictions or theories you’d like to share at this nascent stage of the season. Let’s get into it!
