21-year-old Joško Gvardiol makes his Premier League debut for Manchester City!
What a signing
Erling Haaland
Burnley:
2 goals
2 shots on target
2 key passes
23 touches
10 passes completed
2 ground duels won
8.7 match rating
Robot.
Anass Zaroury’s red card is the first sending off in a team’s opening Premier League fixture since Morgan Schneiderlin for Everton in 2019.
Not a great start.
Rodri’s game by numbers vs Burnley:
125 touches (most)
97.3% passing accuracy (107/110)
15 final ⅓ entries (most)
8x possession won
5 duels won
5 tackles made
4 shots
1 shot
1 assist
0.5 xG
A goal and and assist in a top flight league match for the first time in his career.
Man City have won eight consecutive games against Burnley without conceding a single goal:
5-0
3-0
5-0
2-0
2-0
2-0
6-0
3-0
25-0 on aggregate.
Erling Haaland has now scored 100 goals in Europe’s top-five leagues:
Dortmund: 63
Man City: 37
Only Robert Lewandowski has scored more since Haaland made his debut in January 2020 (114).
Pep Guardiola on Kevin De Bruyne: “He’s injured again, it is a problem. Same as the final of Champions League. We’ve lost him for some time.”
Arsenal XI: Ramsdale; Partey, White, Saliba, Timber; Rice, Havertz, Odegaard; Saka, Nketiah, Martinelli.
Nottingham Forest XI: Turner; Boly, Worrall, McKenna; Aurier, Yates, Mangala, Aina; Danilo, Johnson, Gibbs-White.
73 - This is the first time Gabriel Magalhães has not been named in a Premier League starting XI for Arsenal since August 2021 in a 5-0 defeat to Manchester City. It ends the Brazilian’s run of 73 consecutive league starts for the Gunners. Tactical?