The English Premier League is back this weekend after some exciting midweek games. Chelsea won their second Premier League win shortly after beating Dortmund to advance to the quarter-finals of the Champions League. A 3-1 win over Leicester City has bolstered Chelsea's hopes of qualifying for next season's European Cup. Manchester City came close to winning a crucial win over Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park to increase the pressure on the Gunners.
On Sunday afternoon, Arsenal made a short march to Craven Cottage Stadium, where they took on Fulham. Gabriel, Martinelli and Martin Odegaard help the Gunners maintain the top spot with 5 points. On the other hand, Manchester United had a very difficult afternoon against Southampton at the Theater of Dreams. Casemiro received a direct red card after a dangerous challenge on a Southampton midfielder.
Although United had several chances to score in the first half, including a disallowed handball in the box, the deadlock could not be broken. The match heated up in the second half as both teams created many scoring opportunities. West Ham United and Aston Villa face off at London Stadium. Newcastle United and Wolverhampton Wanderers will start later today.
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Arsenal trio of Bukayo Saka, Gabriel Martinelli and Martin Odegaard have all scored twice in Premier League goals this season / James Williamson - AMA/GettyImages
Arsenal finished last season with just two players scoring twice as many Premier League goals. However, with 11 matches of the current campaign still running, the Gunners have up to three individuals scoring ten or more goals.
Gabriel Martinelli (12 goals), Bukayo Saka (ten) and Martin Odegaard (ten) have provided Arsenal with three reliable avenues to score in this year's title race.
To get a sense of how impressive that achievement is at the start of the season, only one other club in Europe's top ten leagues can boast so many goalscorers (according to Opta). ).
10+ - Arsenal and Paris Saint-Germain are the only teams in Europe's top 10 leagues to have three players score more than 10 goals this season:
12 - Martinelli
10- Saka
10 - degaard
19 - Mbappe
13-Neymar
13- Messi
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– OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) March 12, 2023
Paris Saint-Germain's fearsome and famous attacking trio of Kylian Mbappe (19 league goals), Lionel Messi (13) and Neymar (13) are the only other trio in Europe's top league to even could separate Arsenal's goals.
Mbappe and Messi finished first and second in the 2022 FIFA Best of the Year Awards, with Neymar completing the trio in ninth place. No Arsenal player made the shortlist of 14 players announced in January.
For Arsenal's significantly younger trio, this is uncharted territory. Odegaard's pre-season record is eight goals while on loan at Dutch side Vitesse Arnhem, while Martinelli has never scored more than six in a season. Saka, admittedly, finished as Arsenal's top scorer with 11 goals in the top flight last year, but by hitting double figures again this season, the player The 21-year-old has become Arsenal's youngest player to score 10 or more Premier League goals in consecutive seasons. .
Since joining the Monaco first team at the age of 17, Mbappe has scored at least 13 goals in each of the past seven years. Neymar hit doubles in seven of his previous eight top-flight campaigns, while Messi spent 15 consecutive seasons scoring goals, being cut short by just six in his first season in Ligue 1. Normal operations have resumed this quarter.
Neymar (left), Kylian Mbappe (centre) and Lionel Messi have scored 66% of PSG's goals in Ligue 1 this season / Tim Clayton - Corbis/GettyImages
Neymar will not be able to add to his roster this season after sustaining a late campaign ankle injury last month. On the other hand, Arsenal can add the fourth name to the top scorer list after welcoming the Brazilian back from injury.
Gabriel Jesus came on from the bench against Fulham for his first Premier League game since November after recovering from a serious knee injury he sustained while playing for Brazil in the FIFA World Cup. ' winter. The 25-year-old has blocked five goals since scoring in the North London derby in October but he has more than a quarter of the season left to cement his record.
Unlike PSG, Arsenal are not top scorers in their league despite a good scoring record. Manchester City's Erling Haaland-centric attack helped the defending champions score 67 goals in 27 league appearances (28 of which belonged to the Norwegian striker), three more than the Gunners. player. However, Phil Foden is the team's second-highest scorer with just nine goals in the league.
Odegaard's 10th goal of the season was Arsenal's third in an easy win over Fulham on Sunday, helping the Gunners restore a five-point lead over Man City at the Premier League summit.
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