Achievement of Obameyang and the grossest mistakes of the defenders

If on Saturday all the top submarine clubs with the exception of Manchester City won, on Sunday, Arsenal unexpectedly lost points in the match with Watford. And it all began for the “Gunners” you can’t imagine better. After the first half, they were 2-0 thanks to the double of Pierre-Emerick Obameyang. It is noteworthy that for him, these balls became the 35th and 36th in the Premier League for a year and a half of performances in England. On this stretch of the bigger he was not scored in the local championship.

However, if the Arsenal attackers coped with their task, the central defenders completely failed the game and, after the break, made a resultant error. First, Socratis Papastatopoulos actually gave the assist to Tom Cleverly, and then David Luis fouled on Roberto Pereira in his own penalty box. So “Arsenal” missed the seemingly obvious victory and extended the unbeaten run in the Premier League to three matches.

Two removals in the first half

In Spain, perhaps, the main event of the matchday was the victory of Sevilla over Alaves with a minimum score, which allowed the team to reach the first place in the standings with ten points.

No less attention was attracted by the situation that occurred in the meeting of Celta and Granada. The fact is that the wards of Fran Exribe already after half an hour of the game managed to remain nine. In the 11th minute, Jorge Saens received a red card, and in the 29th - Francisco Paynado.

At the same time, at least the first removal turned out to be extremely controversial. Saens in the fight, although he stepped on an Achilles opponent, but he hardly deserved such severe sanctions. As a result, “Granada” in the majority squeezed the opponent and won a third victory in four starting rounds.

The amazing start of Freiburg

In Germany, the humble Freiburg season began perfectly. In the first three matches, the team of Christian Streich won two victories, and after a pause in the games of the national teams they defeated the strong Hoffenheim 3-0 on the road, which allowed the team to move to third place.

Once managed to distinguish Christian Gunther, Janik Haberer and Nils Petersen. In total, in the first four matches of the new Bundesliga season, Freiburg scored ten goals and is second only to the two main favorites in this indicator, the Dortmund Borussia and Bayern.

Schalke, who sent five goals into the gates of the modest outsider Paderborn, marked an even larger victory. Let the account be managed to open already in the eighth minute to the losing side, in the future only the hosts missed.

Three assists in one half

Meanwhile, in Italy, the first match for Roma was held by the midfielder of the Armenian team Henrikh Mkhitaryan. And the debut turned out to be more than successful for the football player. The Romans did not leave the chances of Sassuolo at home, and the player himself scored. And by the 33rd minute the hosts were in the lead - 4: 0.

Mkhitaryan himself scored the third goal of his team. Bursting into the penalty area, he sent a shot directly between the legs of the goalkeeper with an accurate blow. But the main character of the meeting was still not Henry, but the 23-year-old midfielder Lorenzo Pellegrini, who gave away three assists at once.

True, Roma after the break expectedly slowed down, and Sassuolo managed to escape from a devastating defeat. The double was designed by striker Domenico Berardi.

Seven goals for two and a replacement for Golovin

But the “Monaco” of Alexander Golovin suffered another defeat in League 1. Let the Marseilles be in the rivals of the Monegasques, but Leonard Jardim’s wards were finally set to score three points, the more opposed was the team of another Portuguese specialist - ex-steering “Zenith” Andre Villas-Boas.

And the meeting began in the most favorable way for the hosts. By the middle of the first half, the team's newcomer Wissam Ben-Yedder managed to take a double. Thus, in the first four matches of the “Monaco” striker chalked up three goals.

However, the ugly actions in the defense nullified all the efforts of Golovin and the partners, and the team left for a break with an equal score. And at the beginning of the second half, the Monegasques were left without injured Ben-Yedder. After that, Jardim's wards rained down and missed twice more. The double was designed by Argentine striker Marcel Dario Benedetto.

Then Jardim went all-in and removed from the field who had not the best match of Golovin and Cesc Fabregas. As a result, the Monegasques managed to reduce the backlog to a minimum and arrange a final assault in the end. But Monaco was not destined to recoup. The team suffered a third defeat in five matches of League 1 and still does not know the victories.

The incredible salvation of Porto

But the ex-forward of “Spartak” Ze Luis things at “Port” are doing just fine. On Sunday, he scored another goal in a match with Portimonence and brought his number of goals in the current season of the Portuguese championship to five. In the scorers ’race, the Cape Verdee is only one accurate hit behind Pizzi from Benfica.

However, the game itself almost ended for a favorite embarrassment. Porto left for the break, possessing a confident advantage - 2-0, but in the second half managed to miss twice in five minutes. Moreover, in the time added by the arbitrator, the favorite remained in the minority. But the team was saved by another football player directly related to Russia, the ex-defender of Rubin Ivan Marcano. In the 98th minute, he jumped higher than anyone in the penalty area after a corner was sent and sent the shell into the net.