Arsenal continued its path at a steady pace in the English Premier League, achieving its fifth victory in a row once morest its host Aston Villa 2-1 in the fifth stage of the competitions, Wednesday, which witnessed a second consecutive hat-trick and a record for the Norwegian Erling Haaland during Manchester City’s 6-0 victory over Nottingham Forest.
Arsenal escaped the trap of Aston Villa and coach Steven Gerrard, achieving the full mark with two goals scored by Brazilian Gabriel Jesus (30) and Gabriel Martinelli (77), while their compatriot Douglas Lewis scored Aston Villa’s only goal (74).
With this victory, the men of Spanish coach Mikel Arteta maintained the top of the Premier League table with 15 points from five games, while Aston Villa remained in the nineteenth place with three points.
Jesus opened the scoring for the “gunners” in the 30th minute, following he followed a darbka ball into the area following a cross from the Swiss Granit Chaka.
However, Aston Villa returned to equalize with a surprise goal for Lewis in the 74th minute. Arsenal players demanded to cancel it, claiming that there was a mistake by the goalkeeper while playing the corner kick from which the goal came directly.
However, the match referee issued a fatwa following resorting to the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) technology.
The Gunners’ reaction did not delay, as Martinelli secured the three points for his team by scoring the winning goal in the 77th minute.
Who stops Haaland?
In another match, Halland led his Manchester City team to a wide victory over its newly promoted guest, Nottingham Forest, with a clean six, scoring three goals (12, 24, 38), while Portuguese Joao Cancelo (50) and Argentine Julian Alvares scored (50). 65 and 87) the other three objectives.
With this victory, City remained in second place with 13 points, two points behind Arsenal, while Nottingham Forest, with 4 points, remained in the fourteenth place.
City began the match with a pressing attack, and opened the scoring in the 12th minute through Haaland, who received a pass from Phil Foden and put it in the net.
The Norwegian managed to double the score in the 23rd minute, when he passed a ball to Foden, who was stopped by the defense, and the ball returned to Halland, who put it in the open goal.
Halland quickly scored his third goal in the 38th minute, when Cancelo raised a ball from the left, Foden headed it towards John Stones, who headed it back to Halland, who followed it into the net.
With this second hat-trick in a row, Haaland became the first player in the history of the English Premier League to score 9 goals in his first five matches in the Premier League, overtaking former City player Sergio Aguero and Mick Quinn from Newcastle.
The Norwegian needed five matches to score two hat-tricks in the Premier League, while the previous record was held by Senegalese Demba Ba in 21 matches.
City continued to celebrate its goals and scored the fourth goal when Cancelo reached a pass from Portuguese Bruno Silva on the outskirts of the penalty area, and he hit a missile ball in the upper right corner of the goal (50).
Alvares scored the last two goals for City, the first in the 65th minute when he received a pass from the Algerian Riyad Mahrez and hit it powerfully into the net, and the second in the 87th minute, when he got a rebound from the defense, to hit the top corner of the goal.
