Bournemouth vs Arsenal LIVE: Premier League result, final score and reaction after Odegaard and Saliba strike
Bournemouth 0-3 Arsenal: The Gunners extended their winning start in the Premier League
Arsenal coasted to victory at Bournemouth as captain Martin Odegaard’s early brace took the visitors to the top of the Premier League.
The Gunners kept up their perfect start to the new campaign, their 3-0 win at the Vitality Stadium sealed with a fine William Saliba strike as the defender opened his account for the club.
Odegaard had put Arsenal clear inside the opening 11 minutes, the first time the Norway international has scored twice in a match since a double for Stromsgodset in October 2014.
At this stage of last season, Mikel Arteta was facing calls to be axed as Arsenal boss as they sat bottom without a point or a goal. The summer signing of Gabriel Jesus has done much to herald such a stark turnaround in fortunes and, while he did not add to his goal tally on the south coast, the Brazil forward was again instrumental.
Follow reaction from the Premier League fixture, below:
Dominic Solanke to undergo fitness test ahead of Arsenal clash
Bournemouth boss Scott Parker will make a late call on striker Dominic Solanke ahead of Saturday evening’s Premier League clash with Arsenal.
Solanke was ever-present last season as the Cherries won promotion to the top flight but missed last weekend’s 4-0 thrashing at champions Manchester City due to an ankle issue.
The 24-year-old will undergo a fitness test before the Gunners arrive at Vitality Stadium, while Parker could hand a first start to Argentina defender Marcos Senesi.
“The team news will probably be similar to last week,” Parker told a press conference. “Dominic Solanke maybe (could be involved), we’ll have to assess him tomorrow and make a call. Everyone has come out of last week’s game well.”
Dominic Solanke to undergo fitness test ahead of Arsenal clash
The 24-year-old hit 29 Championship goals in the Cherries’ promotion-winning season
Early Arsenal team news
Emile Smith Rowe and Fabio Vieira are getting closer to full fitness having appeared for Arsenal’s Under-21s in midweek, while Takehiro Tomiyasu and Kieran Tierney are pushing for full involvement after both coming off the bench last weekend.
It would not be a surprise to see Mikel Arteta name an unchanged team, unless he wants a more natural right back in Tomiyasu in place of Ben White.
Early Bournemouth team news
Bournemouth striker Dominic Solanke is a doubt after missing the trip to Manchester City last weekend with an ankle injury.
Jordan Zemura also missed out after testing positive for Covid. Joe Rothwell, Ryan Fredericks and David Brooks are also set to be unavailable.
Bournemouth vs Arsenal
Arsenal will look to make it three wins out of three to open the Premier League season as they travel to Bournemouth this afternoon (kick-off at 5.30pm).
Gabriel Jesus has made an immediate impact at the Gunners and the Brazilian scored his first goals for the club in the 4-2 win over Leicester last weekend.
It added to Arsenal’s opening win of the season at Crystal Palace and the growing belief at the Emirates - but newly promoted Bournemouth will look to provide an upset on the south coast.
Scott Parker’s side were blown away in the first half of their defeat at Manchester City last weekend but had better fortunes in their opening home match of the season against Aston Villa two weeks ago.
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Full-time: Tottenham 1-0 Wolves
For the second week in a row, Tottenham required Harry Kane’s instincts at a corner to rescue a result that in other seasons might have been slipping away.
Report by Jamie Braidwood:
Harry Kane heads Tottenham to narrow win over Wolves
Tottenham 1-0 Wolves: Kane nodded home Son Heung-min’s second-half corner that was flicked on by Ivan Perisic to earn three points
Full-time: Tottenham 1-0 Wolves
It’s all over. Spurs had to work for those three points after a poor first half, but their second-half display was worthy of the win. Kulusevski was excellent, Perisic was good and Kane popped up with the crucial goal.
Wolves will rue a day where they performed pretty well but lacked a cutting edge. New signing Matheus Nunes was very impressive and they will win plenty of games in this league playing like that.
Tottenham 1-0 Wolves
90+1 min: Jimenez can’t control a header in the box and Spurs have a goal-kick, which brings a relieved cheer around the ground.
Tottenham 1-0 Wolves
89 min: Spurs haven’t really changed formation – instead Bentancur seems to be playing on the right side where Kulusevski was, and Richarlison is still on the left. Lucas Moura will be on soon, it appears. Wolves are probing now for the equaliser.
Tottenham 1-0 Wolves
86 min: Bissouma replaces the excellent Kulusevski, so it looks like Spurs are shifting to a three-man midfield with Richarlison and Kane up front.
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