Holders Liverpool bushed Arsenal 1-0 successful English football’s Premier League, portion fallen favourites Man City suffer 2-1 astatine Brighton.
Published On 31 Aug 2025
Dominik Szoboszlai curled location a superb long-range escaped footwear to gain Liverpool a 1-0 triumph implicit Arsenal successful an early-season gathering betwixt 2 of the apt Premier League rubric contenders.
Manchester City was besides expected to beryllium challenging for the title this season, but collapsing to a 2-1 nonaccomplishment astatine Brighton – for a 2nd consecutive nonaccomplishment – was different motion that Pep Guardiola’s squad has mislaid its aura of dominance.
Little separated Liverpool and Arsenal astatine Anfield earlier Szoboszlai stepped up to an 83rd-minute escaped footwear and whipped it into the apical country from astir 30 yards.
“I thought I would instrumentality a risk,” Szoboszlai told Sky Sports. “I was confident, truthful I tried it and finally! It’s a agelong clip erstwhile you signifier each the clip and Trent [Alexander-Arnold] was taking the escaped kicks, but yet I could person my chance, and I did it.
“This [type of] changeable I didn’t signifier successful the past fewer weeks arsenic we were shooting from closer, but I had to instrumentality a hazard and sprout it a small spot harder.”
Filling successful astatine afloat backmost successful an emergency, the Hungary skipper – typically an attacking midfielder – did his champion content of now-departed close backmost Alexander-Arnold with a top-quality onslaught that was retired of keeping with the remainder of the game.
It’s present 3 consecutive wins to unfastened the play for Liverpool, the defending champion.
For Arsenal, it was a archetypal nonaccomplishment and archetypal extremity conceded – extending its winless grounds astatine Anfield dating backmost to 2012.
“Arsenal had an unbelievable play past play and 3 times successful a enactment coming second,” Szoboszlai added.
“To beryllium honest, it’s a compliment ever to support connected going with City, with Chelsea with america – it is ever truly hard. They person an unbelievable squad and an unbelievable coach.”

Man City suffer again arsenic erstwhile Liverpool midfielder Milner nets EPL record
City’s decision astatine Brighton followed a 2-0 location nonaccomplishment past play to Tottenham, which is demonstrating the aforesaid vulnerabilities and brittleness it showed past play erstwhile surrendering the rubric to Liverpool aft 4 consecutive years arsenic champions.
“This is the reality: we are not astatine the level from a agelong clip [ago],” said City midfielder Rodri, the reigning Ballon d’Or winner, who was starting successful the league for the archetypal clip since September past twelvemonth pursuing a superior genu injury.
Brajan Gruda surged done an unfastened defence, rounded goalkeeper James Trafford and slotted into an bare nett for the 89th-minute victor for Brighton, which trailed to Erling Haaland’s first-half onslaught – his 88th extremity successful 100 Premier League appearances since moving to England successful 2022.
City conceded an equalizer successful the 67th infinitesimal aft Matheus Nunes raised his limb successful the country to artifact a shot, with James Milner converting the punishment for Brighton to go – astatine property 39 years and 239 days – the second-oldest scorer successful Premier League history. He is besides the 2nd youngest, having netted arsenic a 16-year-old for Leeds.
With City noticeably fading, Brighton created a succession of chances earlier Gruda converted 1 to seal a repetition of his team’s come-from-behind 2-1 triumph implicit City past season.
City’s lone points truthful acold this play person travel from a 4-0 opening-round triumph astatine Wolverhampton, aft which pundits were saying Guardiola’s squad was back. Now, it has less points than Manchester United.
West Ham eased the unit connected manager Graham Potter with a 3-0 triumph astatine Nottingham Forest, secured by precocious goals by Jarrod Bowen, Lucas Paqueta — from the punishment spot — and Callum Wilson.
West Ham mislaid its archetypal 2 games successful the league, conceding 8 goals successful the process, and besides was eliminated from the English League Cup successful midweek.
Paqueta, the Brazil midfielder, celebrated his palmy punishment footwear by pretending to reply a telephone and propulsion distant a telephone earlier kissing the badge connected his jersey – possibly a motion to being linked implicit the past 24 hours with a determination to Aston Villa.
Crystal Palace visits Villa successful the last crippled connected Sunday to wrapper up the Premier League’s 3rd round.
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Al Jazeera and quality agencies