The first match of the 2017-2018 season in the Premier League was 100% successful.
For the first time in the history of the English championship kicked off on a weekday. The compilers of calendar of the Premier League never has wished, and sent him to open the season, Arsenal and Leicester.
Only 105 seconds it took the former leader of the Lyon’s Alexander Lacazette to score his debut goal in the Premier League. The new leader of the attacks of “Arsenal” head locked shed Alani.
Leicester four minutes later replied with a goal by Okazaki, and then Vardy reminded of themselves by 29 minutes, one of the main creators of championship success, “Leicester” rounded out a perfect cross from Albrighton. And yet Arsenal failed to break to level the scores – Welbeck sent the ball into the goal after a failed attempt to Lacazette grabbed a brace.
The second half proved no less hurricane – Vardy after a corner again brought the Leicester forward, but at the end of the match the coach of “Gunners” Arsene Wenger gave two perfect substitutes: Ramsey and Giroud turned the game and allowed Arsenal for the first time in many years to open a season without losing points.
Arsenal – Leicester 4:3
Goals: Lacazette, 2, Welbeck 45+2, Ramsey 83, Giroud, 86 — Okazaki, 5, Vardy, 29, 59
Arsenal: Cech — Holding (Fat, 67), Montreal, Kolasinac — Bellerin, Alani (Ramsey 67), Xhaka, Oxlade-Chamberlain — Ozil, Welbeck (Walcott 75) — Lacazette
Lester: Smihel Simpson, Morgan, Maguire, Fuchs — Mahrez, Ndidi, James (Iheanacho, 82), Albrighton (Gray, 88) — Okazaki (Amartya, 72), Vardy
Warning: Morgan
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