Brentford vs Arsenal LIVE: Premier League result and final score as Fabio Vieira adds third on debut
Brentford 0-3 Arsenal: Vieira marked his first Premier League start with a stunning goal from distance after first-half headers from Gabriel Jesus and William Saliba
Arsenal returned to the top of the Premier League table in some style as Fabio Vieira’s first goal for the club added to first-half headers from William Saliba and Gabriel Jesus in an impressive 3-0 win at Brentford.
Mikel Arteta’s side responded to victories for Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday with a commanding performance at the Brentford Community Stadium, as the Gunners got their revenge for last season’s opening defeat to Thomas Frank’s team.
Saliba scored his second goal of the campaign with a fine header at the front post from a corner, before Jesus met Granit Xhaka’s wonderful cross to double their advantage.
Arsenal were missing captain Martin Odegaard but with Vieira making his first Premier League start for the club, the 22-year-old fired in a stunning goal from distance to wrap up three points.
Late in the match, Arsenal’s Ethan Nwaneri made history by becoming the youngest ever Premier League player at the age of 15 years and 181 days.
Everton 0-0 West Ham
51 mins: Close! Demarai Gray has been Everton’s most lively attacking player and he dances inside of Vladimir Coufal before curling an effort straight into the hands of Lukasz Fabianski.
Everton 0-0 West Ham
48 mins: Thilo Kehrer jumps above everyone else in the box and nods the ball away. West Ham recover it and fly down the left side with Rice, Cresswell and Fornals linking up.
Fornals takes the ball to the byline then swings it across the box to Bowen who fires his effort wide of goal.
Second half: Everton 0-0 West Ham
Everton get the ball rolling for the second half and immediately burst down the left wing with the aid of an overlapping run from Vitaly Mykolenko. He sends the ball into the box towards Demarai Gray but Kurt Zouma lunges in and taps the ball behind for a corner.
HT Everton 0-0 West Ham
The players come back out for the second half. Which team will change the initiative of the game and maybe break the deadlock?
Fabio Vieira’s debut goal helps Arsenal return top in comfortable win over Brentford
Arsenal climbed back to the top of the Premier League and avenged last year’s humbling at Brentford with a clinical 3-0 victory.
The Gunners were back at the scene of their dismal opening-day defeat last season which pre-empted their worst start to a campaign for 67 years.
But they are a different animal this term and proved it with an organised, inventive display and three well-taken goals from William Saliba, Gabriel Jesus and Fabio Vieira.
Such was Arsenal’s dominance that Mikel Arteta could even afford to give 15-year-old midfielder Ethan Nwaneri a late run-out as a substitute, making him the Premier League’s youngest ever player.
Fabio Vieira’s debut goal helps Arsenal return top in comfortable win over Brentford
Brentford 0-3 Arsenal: The 22-year-old marked his first Premier League start with a stunning goal from distance after first-half headers from Gabriel Jesus and William Saliba
Half-time: Everton 0-0 West Ham
45+1 mins: Nothing to separate the teams as they head into the break. It’s been an intriguing if unspectacular contest and the game needs a goal to liven things up.
Everton 0-0 West Ham
42 mins: Everton win a free kick on the left side as Anthony Gordon is brought down by Vladimir Coufal. Demarai Gray whips in the free-kick but it curls wide of the far post.
Everton 0-0 West Ham
39 mins: Iwobi recycles the ball from another Everton attack and sends another high ball into the middle of the box.
Conor Coady and Anthony Gordon both look to get to the cross but it goes over both of them and Lukasz Fabianski plucks it out of the air for the Hammer.s
Everton 0-0 West Ham
36 mins: Everton are stepping it up and whipping crosses into the penalty area more regularly. Alex Iwobi sends one in this time from the left but Thil Kehrer gets above Amadou Onana and heads it away.
West Ham’s defence has been solid so far.
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