Arsenal capitalise on Bayindir error to win 1-0 at Manchester United

United’s expensively-assembled caller guardant enactment gully a blank arsenic Arsenal began rubric run with a choky triumph astatine Old Trafford.

Arsenal kept Manchester United’s expensively assembled guardant enactment astatine bay and scored again from a acceptable portion to win 1-0 astatine Old Trafford successful the marquee lucifer successful the opening circular of English football’s Premier League.

Arsenal defender Riccardo Calafiori nodded successful from adjacent scope successful the 13th infinitesimal connected Sunday aft United back-up goalkeeper Altay Bayındır flapped astatine the shot from a country whipped successful by Declan Rice.

After finishing 2nd for the past 3 seasons, the unit is connected Arsenal brag Mikel Arteta to present the club’s archetypal league rubric since 2003-04.

The Spaniard was near to beryllium connected his reliable defence and goalkeeper David Raya to unafraid a immense 3 points arsenic the visitors ne'er afloat got going arsenic an attacking force.

United, meanwhile, fell to a nonaccomplishment that is each excessively acquainted nether Ruben Amorim pursuing a woeful 15th-place decorativeness past play by the struggling elephantine of English football.

United spent astir 200 cardinal pounds ($270m) connected revamping their onslaught successful the preseason, with Bryan Mbeumo and Matheus Cunha starting the lucifer and Benjamin Sesko coming disconnected the seat successful the 2nd half.

Cunha and Mbeumo unsettled Arsenal’s usually unflappable centre-back pairing of Gabriel Magalhaes and William Saliba aboriginal on.

However, United’s bully enactment was undone by a glaring mistake from Bayindir, who was deputising for Andre Onana.

Patrick Dorgu came closest to a United reply earlier half-time with a almighty effort from region that came backmost disconnected the post.

Dorgu reacts aft hitting the woodwork [Peter Powell/Reuters]

Mbeumo and Cunha saw tame efforts easy saved by Raya, portion the Spaniard did brilliantly to divert different Cunha changeable crossed the look of goal.

Arsenal had held involvement successful Sesko for good implicit a twelvemonth earlier alternatively pursuing a determination for Viktor Gyokeres arsenic the solution to their request for a fig nine. The Swede had a quiescent Premier League debut and was replaced earlier the hr people by Kai Havertz.

Sesko made his entranceway moments aboriginal to a hero’s invited aft rejecting the advances of Newcastle for the lure of the 20-time English champions.

United continued to bask the amended of the play without uncovering the decorativeness arsenic Mbeumo saw a almighty header expertly clawed retired by Raya.

But Arsenal held steadfast to support gait with rubric rivals Liverpool and Manchester City, who besides won connected the opening play of the campaign.

Calafiori told Sky Sports aft the lucifer that his broadside person country to improve, contempt the win.

“Like always, we were moving a batch connected our set-pieces, and that is what we showed today. We person to amended if imaginable and support going,” helium said.

“If we privation to vie astatine the precocious level we person to beryllium bully successful each position. My teammates are acceptable to play and it is not casual to play each game. The assurance we person wrong is going to bring up the level. Hopefully I play a batch but if not determination is different teammate that tin play.”

Manchester United skipper Bruno Fernandes said that portion his squad played well, they request to beryllium much objective successful beforehand of goal.

“We created tons of chances and didn’t people truthful we person to bash amended adjacent time. We controlled the crippled well, we were bully connected the ball,” helium told Sky Sports.

“[Matheus Cunha and Bryan Mbeumo] created a batch [of opportunities and] they were successful the close positions. We cognize they are unsafe and they are a threat. We are precise alert of what they tin springiness to the team. It was a bully archetypal content for them but I’m beauteous definite they volition bash overmuch better.”

Elsewhere successful the Premier League connected Sunday, Chelsea failed to people successful their opening league game, arsenic they were held 0-0 by Crystal Palace successful the Blues’ archetypal competitory lucifer arsenic the Club World Cup champions.

A period aft stunning Paris Saint-Germain successful the Club World Cup final, Chelsea toiled astatine Stamford Bridge aft a abbreviated preseason due to the fact that of its exertions successful the United States.

Meanwhile, Nottingham Forest deed the crushed moving with a 3-1 triumph implicit Brentford, with striker Chris Wood – the team’s apical scorer past play with 20 goals – netting doubly successful the archetypal fractional either broadside of a extremity connected by Dan Ndoye connected his debut.

All matches connected Sunday featured a play of soundlessness earlier kickoff arsenic a tribute to Diogo Jota and Andre Silva, the brothers who were killed successful a car clang successful Spain past month. Jota was a subordinate for Liverpool astatine the time.

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