Arsenal and Liverpool both began what they hope will be title-chasing 2023-24 seasons with wins in the Premier League results today.
The Reds kicked off Saturday’s action at newly-promoted Ipswich Town before Arsenal hosted Wolves in one of four games at 3pm BST.
Brighton & Hove Albion won by the largest scoreline of the day at Everton, and Newcastle also started with three points at home to Southampton, who won the Championship play-offs last season.
Catch up with what happened in Saturday’s six top-flight matches with our round-up of the results on the opening day.
Starting as we mean to go on pic.twitter.com/Jfs5vUAZK8
— Arsenal (@Arsenal) August 17, 2024
Arsenal vs Wolves: Saka, Havertz open accounts
Bukayo Saka played his first competitive match since the final of Uefa Euro 2024 with England by starring as Arsenal won a seventh successive encounter with Wolves.
Kai Havertz headed Arsenal in front after 25 minutes and Saka struck with 16 minutes remaining to seal a comfortable 2-0 victory.
Ipswich vs Liverpool: Jota, Salah score
New manager Arne Slot was unimpressed with Liverpool’s first-half display at Ipswich, who contained Mohamed Salah and his team-mates until the forward crossed for Diogo Jota to convert the 60th-minute opener.
Salah’s close-range finish five minutes later gave Liverpool comfort in a 2-0 win but will only have mildly dampened the mood for hosts celebrating their first appearance in the Premier League since 2002.
The Egyptian King. Simply incredible. pic.twitter.com/4R55moGwPK
— Liverpool FC (@LFC) August 17, 2024
Everton vs Brighton: Hurzeler joy
The youngest permanent manager in Premier League history enjoyed a dream start as strikes from Kaoru Mitoma in the 25th minute, Danny Welbeck in the 56th and Simon Adingra four minutes from time gave Fabian Hurzeler’s Brighton a 3-0 win at Everton.
The Toffees, who were reduced to 10 men when Ashley Young was sent off for denying Mitoma a clear goalscoring…
Author : Ben Miller
Publish date : 2024-08-17 18:30:17
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Publish date : 2024-08-17 18:39:23
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