Arsenal stored at bay Manchester United’s expensively assembled ahead line and scored once more from a set piece to win 1-0 in the marquee match in the opening spherical of the Premier League on Sunday (August 17, 2025).
Arsenal defender Riccardo Calafiori nodded in from shut vary in the thirteenth minute after United back-up goalkeeper Altay Bayindir — beginning forward of Andre Onana — flapped at the ball from a nook whipped in by Declan Rice.
While Arsenal adopted seemingly title rivals Liverpool and Manchester City in claiming an opening-weekend victory, United fell to a loss that’s all-to-familiar beneath Ruben Amorim following a woeful Fifteenth-place end final season by English soccer’s fallen big.
United spent round 200 million kilos ($270 million) on revamping its assault in the offseason, with Bryan Mbeumo and Matheus Cunha beginning the match and Benjamin Sesko coming off the bench in the second half.
While the crew performed with a superb depth at Old Trafford, Arsenal’s robust defence stood agency.
At the opposite finish, Viktor Gyokeres endured a troublesome first aggressive begin for Arsenal, whose aim got here from a well-known route with Mikel Arteta’s crew so imposing from set-piece conditions in latest seasons.
Chelsea additionally failed to attain in its opening league sport, held 0-0 by Crystal Palace in its first aggressive match as the membership world champion.
A month after gorgeous Paris Saint-Germain in the Club World Cup last, Chelsea toiled at Stamford Bridge after a brief preseason due to its exertions in the United States.
Eze’s farewell?
Eberechi Eze has been closely linked with a transfer to Tottenham so the England midfielder might need been making his last look for Palace.
He nearly marked it with a aim.
In the thirteenth minute, Eze smashed a direct free kick previous Chelsea goalkeeper Robert Sanchez from the sting of the realm however the aim was dominated out after a video overview noticed an infringement by Palace captain Marc Guehi as he tried to push apart Chelsea’s Moises Caicedo in the defensive wall.
The Premier League confirmed Guehi was standing lower than one meter (yard) from the wall as the shot was taken, which isn’t allowed.
Joao Pedro and Cole Palmer, stars for Chelsea in the Club World Cup, had been quiet. The hosts lacked depth as a result of they’ve solely been again in coaching for a few weeks, whereas Palace has had a protracted preseason and was coming off beating Liverpool on penalties in the Community Shield final weekend.
Wood begins sizzling for Forest
Nottingham Forest hit the bottom working with a 3-1 win over Brentford, with striker Chris Wood — the crew’s high scorer final season with 20 objectives — netting twice in the primary half both facet of a aim on debut by Dan Ndoye.
Wood began shortly final season in one of the best goalscoring top-flight marketing campaign of his profession and he wanted simply 5 minutes to open his account this time spherical, benefiting from a poor clearance at a nook to poke house a end.
Ndoye headed in a second in the forty second minute and Wood rounded the goalkeeper in first-half stoppage time to stroke in a 3rd.
Igor Thiago transformed a late penalty for a comfort for Brentford, which could battle this season after promoting star ahead Bryan Mbeumo to Manchester United and never having first-choice striker Yoane Wissa accessible. Wissa has been linked with a transfer to Newcastle.
Jota tribute
All matches on Sunday featured a interval of silence earlier than kickoff as a tribute to Diogo Jota and Andre Silva, the brothers who had been killed in a automobile crash in Spain final month. Jota was a participant for Liverpool at the time.
