Premier League Roundup: Tottenham beats United, Liverpool rallys past Bournemouth

LONDON (AP) — As Ange Postecoglou made his solution to the far finish of Tottenham’s stadium to applaud supporters after his first dwelling sport as Spurs supervisor, he was greeted by a white wall of followers giving him a standing ovation.

If any of these supporters nonetheless had lingering doubts in regards to the membership’s path following a summer season of upheaval, it’s protected to say that beating Manchester United 2-0 within the English Premier League on Saturday went a great distance towards profitable over skeptics.

Yes, the Harry Kane period is over at Tottenham. But the Postecoglou period could possibly be value getting enthusiastic about as properly.

“The support was outstanding, right from the first whistle the crowd were outstanding,” Postecoglou stated. “They carried us through the first half because we were nervy. … We’re showing bits of our game today. I saw enough that encourages me.”

It ought to encourage the followers, too.

Playing the model of attacking soccer that the Australian supervisor promised to deliver to north London, Tottenham took the lead by means of Pape Matar Sarr within the forty ninth minute and netted the second optimistically as United defender Lisandro Martinez deflected a low cross into his personal internet within the 83rd.

Sure, there have been issues Tottenham nonetheless want to enhance. The staff’s makes an attempt to implement Postecoglou’s tactic of enjoying out from the again almost acquired them in bother within the first half, as United’s press compelled turnovers and harmful counterattacks.

And Richarlison to date seems to be incapable of changing Kane up entrance, because the Brazil striker struggled to become involved in Spurs’ assaults for the second sport operating and was taken off within the seventieth.

But James Maddison had one other good displaying as Tottenham’s new creator-in-chief, and fellow newcomer Guglielmo Vicario pulled off a few good saves to disclaim United a approach again. None higher than when he tipped a header from Casemiro over the bar because the guests looked for an equalizer.

For United supervisor Erik ten Hag, in the meantime, this was one other sport that left extra query marks round his staff.

United someway beat Wolverhampton 1-0 at dwelling within the opening spherical regardless of being largely outplayed at Old Trafford, and this time they misplaced regardless of being the higher staff in a primary half that had good probabilities for either side. Bruno Fernandes ought to have given United the lead earlier than the break, however missed a large open header in entrance of purpose.

And Tottenham then largely dominated after the break.

“It was fair to say we looked a bit nervous at the start which wasn’t surprising,” Postecoglou stated. “We gave the ball away a little bit too much and, to be fair, Man Utd probably had the better of the chances. … Second half, certainly in spells, it kind of showed the team we want to be.”

LIVERPOOL

A little bit of adversity appeared to be simply what Liverpool wanted in its first dwelling sport.

Jurgen Klopp’s staff went behind within the third minute and Alexis Mac Allister was despatched off within the second half, however they nonetheless beat Bournemouth 3-1 at Anfield.

After Antoine Semenyo put the guests forward, Luis Diaz and Mohamed Salah scored for Liverpool within the first half and Diogo Jota added the third shortly after the hosts went all the way down to 10 males.

Mac Allister was proven a straight pink card within the 58th for kicking Ryan Christie’s leg after a mistimed problem for the ball that Klopp insisted didn’t warrant a sending off.

“When you see it back, it is the inside of the foot and no power behind it. It is not ruthless it is just (he) mis-hit the ball and then hit slightly the shin of the other player,” Klopp stated. “We saw harsher challenges which were not a red card and this shouldn’t have been.”

Salah’s purpose lifted him previous Steven Gerrard into fifth place amongst Liverpool’s all-time main scorers, with 187.

HIGH-SCORING BRIGHTON

Brighton might properly discover itself atop the standings after the weekend, thanks to a different high-scoring show.

Solly March netted two targets in a four-minute span of the second half as Brighton earned a second straight 4-1 win to start out the season — this time towards Wolverhampton.

Kaoru Mitoma and Pervis Estupiñan additionally netted for the guests earlier than the break.

It was one other indication that Brighton is able to problem the highest groups once more regardless of shedding Mac Allister to Liverpool and midfielder Moises Caicedo to Chelsea following a record-high sixth-place end final season.

Brentford adopted up final weekend’s 2-2 dwelling draw towards Tottenham by beating Fulham 3-0 away, after the host’s Tim Ream was despatched off within the second half.

Defending champion Manchester City performed Newcastle within the late sport.