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    "excerpt": "Enzo Le Fee: David Raya and Bruno Guimaraes were Arsenal's heroes as the Gunners maintained their 100 per cent start to their Premier League title defence with a hard-fought 2-0 win at Sunderland and went top of the table.",
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    "editor1": "Enzo Le Fee: David Raya and Bruno Guimaraes were Arsenal's heroes as the Gunners maintained their 100 per cent start to their Premier League title defence with a hard-fought 2-0 win at Sunderland and went top of the table.<p>After a robust, but goalless first half, the game exploded into life ten minutes after the restart.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>First Raya superbly saved an Enzo Le Fee penalty low down to his left, and two minutes later we broke the deadlock in stunning fashion.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Guimaraes fired home his first Gunners goal into the postage stamp of the top corner from well outside the area to silence the home crowd.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The game remained fiercely competitive, with both sides operating at full throttle, and was only settled when Saka won, and then scored, a penalty deep into injury time. <\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>He was released by a fine pass from Bruno, and burst into the area, where he was felled by Reinildo Mandava, the Sunderland man received a second yellow card and his marching orders, just before Saka stroked home his third goal of the season, to seal the Gunners sixth consecutive win to start the season.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Earlier, Alvaro Arbeloa picked up his first point in charge of Fulham, leading them to a draw against Liverpool \u2013 where he made 66 Premier League appearances as a player \u2013 which leaves the Reds still looking for their first home league win of the Andoni Iraola era.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Victor Munoz went closest to scoring for the Reds, the forward hitting the crossbar with a header in the first half, but the game ended goalless.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Earlier, Alvaro Arbeloa picked up his first point in charge of Fulham, leading them to a draw against Liverpool \u2013 where he made 66 Premier League appearances as a player \u2013 which leaves the Reds still looking for their first home league win of the Andoni Iraola era.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h5><b>Also Read: <\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cricketnmore.com\/cricket-special\">Special Cricket Stories<\/a><\/h5><p>Meanwhile, Hull City remains unbeaten on its return to the Premier League after a 2-2 draw away to Chelsea.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h5>Article Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/ians.in\/english-wire\/sports\/1\" rel=\"nofollow\">IANS<\/a><\/h5>",
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