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Gabriel Jesus is setting the standard that is driving Arsenal’s early-season charge at the top of the Premier League, and he came up trumps in his first north London derby.
Arsenal’s win over Tottenham came in Saturday’s early game and was followed by plenty of drama later, as Liverpool were held by Brighton and Hove Albion in a rip-roaring match at Anfield featuring a Leandro Trossard hat-trick.
Newcastle United earned a second win of the season, brushing off Fulham at Craven Cottage, while Graham Potter’s Chelsea had substitute Conor Gallagher to thank for their late winner at Crystal Palace.
With goals and drama in abundance, here Stats Perform unpacks the pick of the data.
Arsenal 3-1 Tottenham: Ton up for Kane, but it’s Partey time for Arsenal after derby win
Harry Kane became the first Premier League player to reach 100 away goals in the competition, but that was scant consolation for Tottenham after this derby defeat.
Arsenal were able to celebrate a third successive home league win over Spurs – the first time that has happened since 2013 – and they are unbeaten at home in this fixture for 12 games now (W8 D4).
It was a win to savour for Arsenal, with Thomas Partey’s opening goal rounding off a 21-pass move, going down as the Gunner’s sixth goal since December 26, 2019 to have come from a sequence of 20 or more passes. Only Liverpool and Manchester City have had more in that time.
Jesus restored the Gunners’ lead after Kane’s penalty brought Spurs level, with Arsenal’s close-season signing from City having managed five goals and three assists already in the Premier League. Only Erling Haaland (12) has had more goal involvements in the early weeks of this season.
It fell to Granit Xhaka to put the seal on the win, after Emerson Royal was sent off. The Arsenal midfielder grabbed his second Premier League goal of the season, with this the first campaign where he has managed more than one league strike since he netted four times in the 2018-19 season.
Liverpool 3-3 Brighton and Hove Albion: Trossard heroics stun Reds
Leandro Trossard became just the third opposing player to score a Premier League hat-trick at Anfield, joining former Coventry City winger Peter Ndlovu and ex-Arsenal forward Andrey Arshavin in that curious club. Arshavin famously hit four in a 4-4 draw in April 2009, the highest-scoring Premier League draw at Liverpool’s home ground.
Saturday’s feat meant Belgium international Trossard became the first Brighton player to score a Premier League hat-trick, and it left Liverpool four points behind the Seagulls after seven games each, with this game quite the baptism for new boss Roberto De Zerbi.
Liverpool have just two wins from seven games, and they were thankful for Roberto Firmino’s sharp finishing as he scored twice, taking his tally for the season to five Premier League goals, all coming at Anfield. He scored five across the 2021-22 season, all away from home.
Mohamed Salah remains stuck on two goals in this campaign but he marked his 200th Premier League appearance with a 50th assist when he set up Firmino to trim Brighton’s lead to 2-1 in the first half. Salah becomes just the third African player to reach 50 assists in the competition, after Didier Drogba (55) and Riyad Mahrez (51).
Crystal Palace 1-2 Chelsea: Gallagher returns to rock Eagles
Conor Gallagher came off the bench to deliver a 90th-minute knockout blow with Chelsea’s winner against the side they loaned him to last season.
It meant Crystal Palace’s losing run against Chelsea extended to 10 Premier League matches, and also boosted the Blues’ record to nine wins in their last 10 away London derbies against all teams.
New Chelsea boss Graham Potter watched on in his first Premier League game since joining from Brighton, and he saw former Barcelona and Arsenal striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang mark his league debut for the visitors with a first-half equaliser. Aubameyang also scored in his first game for Arsenal (against Everton in February 2018).
Odsonne Edouard’s opener in the seventh minute was the earliest goal Chelsea have conceded in a Premier League away game since January 2021, when Wilfred Ndidi scored for Leicester City in the sixth minute.
Fulham 1-4 Newcastle United: Magpies take flight thanks to Almiron’s capital double
Miguel Almiron had been Newcastle’s home boy of late, with his last seven Premier League goals coming at St James’ Park, so Saturday’s double at Craven Cottage bucked a trend.
A fine volley followed by a close-range finish from the Paraguayan helped Newcastle to their joint-biggest victory under Eddie Howe in the Premier League (also 3-0 vs Norwich City in April), and a biggest league win in London since beating Fulham 4-0 in May 2019.
Almiron last scored away from home in the Premier League in another 4-1 win for Newcastle – against Howe’s Bournemouth in July 2020.
Fulham were hindered by a red card for Nathaniel Chalobah after seven minutes and 26 seconds, the earliest a player has been sent off for the club in the Premier League since Ian Pearce against Palace in October 2004 (sixth minute).
