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Three days after its start, Arsenal has hardly made it full of victories in the Premier League, where the stumbling blocks of the greats do not stop.
Manchester City, who had won their first two games, went through an ordeal to rescue a draw (3-3) at Newcastle in a wonderful game.
Chelsea was beaten (3-0) on their visit to Leeds in a game that opened after a gross error by goalkeeper Mendy and is already five points behind the leader, an Arsenal that exudes freshness to consolidate the reconstruction that it undertakes hand in hand by Mikel Arteta.
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They asserted themselves (0-3) on their Saturday visit to Bournemouth, with two goals from Odegaard and a stellar performance from Gabriel Jesus.
The day closes on Monday (9:00 p.m., Dazn) with a duel between Manchester United and Liverpool at Old Trafford to which Casemiro's new team arrives without scoring points, but no longer as bottom because West Ham, another team with a European band, accumulated disasters and stumbled again at home (0-2) against Brighton.
The emergencies go by neighborhood: Liverpool needs to win after chaining two draws in a bad start to the campaign.
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3
Nick Pope, Sven Botman, Trippier, Dan Burn (Krafth, min. 94), Schar, Joelinton, Joseph Willock (Sean Longstaff, min. 69), Bruno Guimarães, Callum Wilson (Wood, min. 69), Saint-Maximin and Miguel Ángel Almirón (Murphy, min. 82)
MNC M. City
3
Ederson Moraes, Walker, John Stones, Cancelo, Aké (Rúben Dias, min. 20), Rodrigo, Gündogan, De Bruyne, Bernardo Silva, Foden and Erling Braut Haaland
Goals
0-1 min.
4: Gundogan.
1-1 min.
27: Miguel Angel Almiron.
2-1 min.
38: Callum Wilson.
3-1 min.
53: Tripper.
3-2 min.
59: Erling Braut Haland.
3-3 min.
63: Bernardo Silva.
Referee
Jarred Gillett
Yellow cards Bruno Guimarães (min. 7), Cancelo (min. 17), Schar (min. 33), John Stones (min. 51), Trippier (min. 75) and Joelinton (min. 91)
The established order is faltering at the dawn of a Premier that has Leicester, Manchester United and West Ham in relegation places and in which the top scorer (with 4 goals) plays for Leeds, the Spanish Rodrigo Moreno.
Newcastle pushed the reigning champions to the limit, coming from behind on an early Gündogan goal, taking the ball from him and diving into Ederson's goal in furious transitions.
In this unleashed context, the figure of Allan Saint-Maximin emerged, a footballer who after three seasons with the Magpies had offered more promise than certainty, but who last season was by far the best dribbler in the five major leagues.
The boy, with an eccentric and enlarged air, arrived at just 22 years old from Nice, previously forged in the prolific nursery of Saint-Ettener.
His mold is his own to handle in such a physical league, but his exuberance has punished him thus far with continual injuries.
The arrival of Eddie Howe to the team has opened up a new future for him.
In a team where large investments are in sight and with which illustrious names are related, the coach has been in charge of putting Saint-Maximin on the label of essential.
“I love seeing him on the field.
He is the best dribbler I have ever coached,” Howe says of his pupil.
Against City he gave a recital of power, always at a gallop, without ties to deploy diagonally from the left towards the area.
And with the resource of dribbling, of course.
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All three of Newcastle's goals were generated by Saint-Maximin.
In the first two he signed he undressed behind City to assist Paraguayan Miguel Almirón and Callum Wilson.
In the third he forced a free kick, unstoppable as it was by legal means, which Trippier placed on the squad defending Ederson.
The former Atlético side was in the winter window the first incorporation of a team that was awaited with the checkbook in the transfer market.
But he has barely moved in that souk.
He signed central defender Botman from Lille for 37 million euros and goalkeeper Nick Pope for 11 million, a bargain for an English international.
For now, his best deal seems to have called Howe, the manager who led and kept Burnley in the elite.
"Newcastle have undoubtedly become one of the toughest opponents in the championship,"
Guardiola reflected at the end of the match.
The Catalan coach did not like that his team entered the game of cons that they proposed.
"We had to take more time to mount the attacks in the rival field."
When City achieved that purpose, that of getting together on Newcastle's ground to avoid being stabbed with every loss of the ball, they achieved something similar to what they were looking for at the beginning.
With half an hour to play, they were two goals behind on the scoreboard, but Haaland, who barely touched the ball, and Bernardo Silva, brought the score back to a level in just five minutes.
From there to the end, Newcastle was less furious in the pressure and coupled to do it with fewer spaces behind them.
Guardiola despised the value that fresh legs could give him, he barely made a substitution and the first half was forced by an injury to Aké that gave Ruben Dias a chance.
Kalvin Philips, Mahrez or Julián Álvarez were left without participating.
"When we have games every three days he will play," he said about the Argentine striker.
The final draw seemed to satisfy everyone.
“That atmosphere!
This is what football is all about,” the City manager gloated when asked about the atmosphere at St James' Park.
For Howe it was the first time that he had scratched a point against the Catalan coach after ten defeats.
"He is one of the best coaches in the Premier," Guardiola concluded.
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