Aston Villa skipper John McGinn’s lone aim helped his facet beat Arsenal within the Premier League match week at Villa Park in Birmingham on Saturday. In the early minutes of the sport, midfielder Leon Bailey began an attacking play on the correct facet, and went previous three Arsenal defenders to proceed his run, and saved a sq. cross to McGinn, who positioned a fiery shot on the highest nook of the submit and gave the house facet the lead.
Even although the Birmingham-based membership struggled with creating possibilities, nevertheless, they had been profitable with their defence work.
Carlos made two goal-line clearances, one on both facet of halftime. Even although Saka discovered the again of the web however it was dominated off as a consequence of offside. In the ultimate minutes, Havertz discovered his approach to equalise, however the referee gave him a handball to cease the attacking play.
In the tip, Villa had been profitable in sustaining its lead and profitable the match by 1-0 in entrance of their residence followers. On the opposite hand, Bournemouth clinched a large 3-0 victory over mighty Manchester United on the Old Trafford on Saturday.
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With the win on Saturday, Bournemouth reached the milestone of profitable their first recreation at Old Trafford. Earlier, the away facet collected simply 4 factors of their earlier 11 video games on the ‘Theatre of Dreams’.
Dominic Solanke made the primary breakthrough of the sport within the fifth minute. Lewis Cook intercepted Amrabat’s cross and made a superb flip of tempo to maneuver ahead the place he saved a cross aiming Solanke and the English striker made no mistake to make the cross by way of United goalkeeper Onana.
The remainder of the 2 targets of the sport got here within the second half. In the 68th minute, Marcus Tavernier despatched a deep cross into the field and Phillip Billing was current over there to attain the second aim of the match.
Tavernier’s second help of the match got here within the 73rd minute when he saved an inswinging nook that met Marcos Senesi on the field, and the participant saved a fiery header into the underside proper nook.
United displayed a poor efficiency in entrance of their residence followers. On the opposite hand, the away facet not solely scored three targets however had been profitable in preserving a clear -sheet.
After the tip of the present PL match week, Arsenal got here right down to second place within the standings with 36 factors. While United maintain sixth place with 27 factors. Whereas, Bournemouth stand within the thirteenth place on the factors desk with 19 factors.
