{"id":19776,"date":"2025-08-24T07:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T07:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/19776\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T07:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T07:07:11","slug":"arsenal-put-five-past-leeds-but-lose-odegaard-and-saka-to-injury-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/19776\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal put five past Leeds but lose \u00d8degaard and Saka to injury \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Premier League: Arsenal 5 [Timber 34, 56; Saka 45+1; Gy\u00f6keres 48, 90-5 pen] Leeds United 0<\/p>\n

It was an occasion that was transcended by someone who did not play but had so much more to chew over from an Arsenal<\/a> point of view. The club showed off their new signing, Eberechi Eze, parading him beforehand and screening a welcome video for him at half-time.<\/p>\n

As the goals flew in to defeat Leeds<\/a>, the cutaways to him in the stands were inevitable. Eze\u2019s signing has the feel of a coup and not only because Arsenal, in the vernacular of the trade, properly did over Tottenham to land him.<\/p>\n

Eze clapped as Jurri\u00ebn Timber opened the scoring following a corner, Bukayo Saka made it 2-0 and Viktor Gy\u00f6keres opened his account for the club with the third. There would be another goal for Timber following another corner; Arsenal\u2019s excellence in this area endures. And another one for Gy\u00f6keres from the penalty spot at the very end.<\/p>\n

\"Arsenal'sArsenal’s Max Dowman is put under pressure by Gabriel Gudmundsson of Leeds United during the Premier League match at Emirates Stadium. Photograph: Justin Setterfield\/Getty Images <\/p>\n

And yet when it was over, it was yet another new boy whose name was on everybody\u2019s lips. Max Dowman got on for his first Arsenal appearance in a competitive game as a 64th-minute substitute and the crowd would be singing his name as he made a few smooth and fearless runs with the ball. Remember, Dowman is just 15. <\/p>\n

Playing on the right wing, Dowman also flashed a shot high from the edge of the area and it was him winning the penalty at the death, going down after the tiniest of touches from Anton Stach. Is Dowman taking GCSE drama? The whiff of something untoward removed very little of the shine from his performance.<\/p>\n

It was a procession after Timber\u2019s first goal on 34 minutes; Leeds started stoutly only to be swatted aside. But the celebratory air was not total. Far from it. Mikel Arteta had not been able to select Ben White because of an injury, with Kai Havertz and Gabriel Jesus also out. He would lose the captain, Martin \u00d8degaard, and Saka to further problems, which is a long way from being ideal when Arsenal\u2019s next game is at Liverpool next Sunday. \u2013 Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Premier League: Arsenal 5 [Timber 34, 56; Saka 45+1; Gy\u00f6keres 48, 90-5 pen] Leeds United 0 It was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[2725,18,19,17,8254,795,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-19776","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-arsenal","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-leeds-united","13":"tag-premier-league","14":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}