England Roundup: Spurs remain unbeaten with win over Bournemouth

BOURNEMOUTH, England (AP) — James Maddison scored his first aim for Tottenham in a 2-0 win over Bournemouth within the Premier League on Saturday that maintained Spurs’ unbeaten begin underneath Ange Postecoglou.

Maddison put Spurs forward within the seventeenth minute with a exact end and Dejan Kulusevski doubled the benefit along with his first aim of the season within the 63rd as Tottenham adopted up final weekend’s residence win over Manchester United with one other spectacular efficiency.

The crew now has two wins and a draw underneath Postecoglou whereas enjoying the attack-minded fashion of soccer that the supervisor has dropped at the membership. Though with Richarlison struggling badly up entrance for a 3rd sport in a row and nonetheless searching for a primary aim of the season — he was taken off an hour into the sport — some Spurs followers may nonetheless be questioning simply how good this crew might have been had the membership not offered talismanic striker Harry Kane to Bayern Munich on the eve of the season.

Tottenham dominated the primary half and Maddison — who joined from relegated Leicester within the low season — opened the scoring when he ran onto a cross into the world from Pepe Matar Sarr and directed the ball contained in the far publish with a first-time effort.

Richarlison had an opportunity to double the lead when he was performed by means of on aim, however after evading one defender, he couldn’t get his ft sorted in time for a shot earlier than the ball was blocked by one other.

Bournemouth improved after the break however Tottenham doubled its lead towards the run of play when Destiny Udogie exchanged passes with Son Heung-min earlier than pulling the ball again throughout aim, the place Kulusevski slotted it contained in the far publish.

Heavy rain then additional lowered Bournemouth’s probabilities of staging a comeback.

The Cherries have one level from its opening three video games after dropping at Liverpool final weekend.

Fulham 2, Arsenal 2

In London, Joao Palhinha scored within the 87th minute to present 10-man Fulham a 2-2 draw at Arsenal.

Arsenal gifted Fulham the lead after simply 57 seconds after a defensive howler however got here again to guide 2-1 because of second-half objectives from Bukayo Saka and Eddie Nketiah. But the hosts couldn’t see out the win as Palhinha was left unmarked to fit residence a nook for the late equalizer. That was regardless of Fulham going a person down when Calvin Bassey was proven a second yellow card within the 83rd.

Arsenal striker Gabriel Jesus got here on for his first look of the season after a knee harm however the Gunners couldn’t discover a winner by means of 9 minutes of harm time. It was Arsenal’s first dropped factors of the marketing campaign after opening with two wins, and the setback was largely self-inflicted.

Fulham took an early lead when Saka misplayed a again cross, sending Andreas Pereira by means of on aim with goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale stranded effectively exterior his space. As Ramsdale backpedaled towards aim, Pereira calmly slotted the ball previous him into the open internet.

Arsenal missed a handful of first rate possibilities to equalize within the first half, with Gabriel Martinelli drawing three saves from Bernd Leno alone. Kai Havertz had the most effective likelihood within the eleventh minute when Saka met a cross on the far publish and poked the ball throughout aim towards the German, who lunged in however solely managed to poke it huge of the web.

Arsenal gifted Fulham one other likelihood when Ben White let the ball drop to Raul Jimenez, who almost scored with a spectacular overhead kick that sailed simply huge of the publish.

Jimenez returned to the Emirates for the primary time since 2020 when a head collision whereas enjoying for Wolverhampton left him with a fractured cranium that sidelined him for almost a 12 months.

Arsenal struggled to create high quality possibilities in a second half performed in the course of a thunder storm that lit up the sky above Emirates Stadium, till substitute Fabio Vieira helped flip the sport round. The Portuguese midfielder first earned a penalty when he was introduced down within the space, and Saka calmly transformed from the spot.

Nketiah then put Arsenal forward minutes later by poking residence a low cross from Vieira. Fulham complained that play went on regardless of Bassey staying down after a problem on Saka within the space moments earlier and Fulham supervisor Marco Silva was booked for his protests.

Arsenal seemed set to see out the win when Bassey was despatched off, however extra sloppy defending from a nook allowed Fulham to equalize.

Vieira almost capped his impactful cameo by netting the winner deep into harm time, however Leno tipped his curling shot over the bar.