Sunday’s Premier League action brought us the north London derby, before Wolves hosted Newcastle at Molineux.
Here’s what went down.
Scorers: Lemina 36′; Schär 75′, Barnes 80′
Newcastle produced a late second-half fightback to snatch a 2-1 win over Wolves.
Jacob Murphy fired an early warning shot from the visitors with a long-range attempt which Sam Johnstone had to tip over his crossbar.
The Magpies’ best opening arrived midway through the first half as Anthony Gordon grazed Johnstone’s lefthand post after a mazy run and shot.
But Mario Lemina broke the deadlock for the hosts after João Gomes dummied Jørgen Strand Larsen’s ball across the face of goal to the far post.
The Wolves enforcer should have doubled his tally shortly before the interval but snatched a shot on the edge of the penalty area that trickled wide.
Johnstone found himself called into action early in the second half as he palmed away an ambitious long-range attempt from Bruno Guimarães.
Larsen responded for the Old Gold with a shot which clipped the post after he was teed up for a first-time strike by Lemina.
The Celta Vigo loanee continued to lay siege to Nick Pope’s goal with a strike which the Newcastle stopper had to parry down low.
Matheus Cunha forced Pope into a save at his near lefthand post after sprinting past Guimarães and Lewis Hall in the build-up.
However it was Eddie Howe’s men who found the target next as Fabian Schär equalised with a strike deflected off Craig Dawson’s head.
Harvey Barnes completed the comeback by dancing past Matt Doherty before firing a curling effort into the top righthand corner of Johnstone’s net.
Deep in added time, Pope produced a superb save to deny Cunha’s volleyed effort to ensure Newcastle took maximum points at Molineux.
Scorers: Gabriel 63′
Gabriel’s second half header was enough to see Arsenal win a fiery north London derby against Tottenham.
The Gunners came into the derby without Declan Rice and Martin Ødegaard whilst Spurs welcomed Dominic Solanke back into the fold after his injury lay-off.
Spurs had two early corners which caused David Raya some problems but the Spanish shot-stopper was at his best as he clawed a flick away from goal.
Arsenal’s first real chance came with 18 minutes gone as Kai Havertz’s header was saved expertly by Guglielmo Vicario down to his right.
As is the wont in a derby, tempers flared just before the break as Jurrien Timber went in high on Pedro Porro with the challenge resulting in a 20-man brawl. The referee though, decided for calm and gave the Dutch defender, as well as Vicario, a yellow card.
With seven bookings given it was, according to Opta, the joint-dirtiest first half in Premier League history and it wasn’t long before Jorginho was given his own yellow after the break.
Both teams were impressing defensively but in the final third, neither were really at their best. Brennan Johnson epitomised that on the hour mark as he was played in but shot weakly at David Raya’s goal.
And it was left to a defender to open the scoring on 63 minutes as Gabriel headed in Bukayo Saka’s corner.
Mikel Arteta’s side were still pushing for a second goal and with 10 minutes to go and brough on Raheem Sterling for his debut.
But one goal was enough as the Gunners saw out the game,
Next weekend is the big one with Arsenal taking on Manchester City in an early title battle.
