{"id":368982,"date":"2025-08-24T05:11:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T05:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/368982\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T05:11:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T05:11:16","slug":"three-things-we-learned-from-arsenal-fc-win-over-leeds-as-injury-curse-strikes-again-but-gyokeres-is-off-the-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/368982\/","title":{"rendered":"Three things we learned from Arsenal FC win over Leeds as injury curse strikes again but Gyokeres is off the mark"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Arsenal<\/p>\n

Arsenal have now won both their Premier League games this season, without conceding, and will head to reigning champions Liverpool next week.<\/p>\n

And, here, Simon Collings takes a look at three talking points from the win over Leeds\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gyokeres gets off the mark<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Swede snatched at a chance early in the first half, when Martin Zubimendi had won the ball high up pitch after Leeds tried to play out from the back.<\/p>\n

It was an uncharacteristic lack of composure from Gyokeres, but he showed what he is all about after the break.<\/p>\n

Minutes into the second half, Riccardo Calafiori found the striker with an early ball over the top of the Leeds defence.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

First goal: Viktor Gyokeres<\/p>\n

Getty Images<\/p>\n

Gyokeres picked the ball up out wide on the left flank, however he had just one thought in his mind and drove inside, before finding the bottom corner.<\/p>\n

In the final minutes, Gyokeres got a second. This time, he rifled the ball home from the penalty spot in emphatic fashion.<\/p>\n

Injury concerns strike again<\/strong><\/p>\n

New season, same old injury fears for Arsenal.<\/p>\n

This campaign is only two games old and already Mikel Arteta<\/a> is sweating over the fitness of key players.<\/p>\n

Of greater concern, however, will be the fact that Bukayo Saka and Martin Odegaard were both forced off early.<\/p>\n

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Double concern: Bukayo Saka and Martin Odegaard<\/p>\n

Getty Images<\/p>\n

Odegaard injured his right shoulder in the first half and, after trying to carry on, had to come off just before the break.<\/p>\n

Saka\u2019s injury happened early in the second half, after he had made it 2-0, with the winger grabbing his left hamstring as he walked off.<\/p>\n

Arsenal will not want another season derailed by injuries.<\/p>\n

Dowman sparkles on his debut<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the biggest cheers of the afternoon came midway through the second half, when Max Dowman<\/a>\u2019s name and number came up on the big screens.<\/p>\n

Aged just 15 years and 234 days old, he became the second youngest player in Arsenal\u2019s history after Ethan Nwaneri.<\/p>\n

The hype around Dowman has been brewing for around 18 months, due to his performances for Arsenal\u2019s youth teams.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Impressive: Max Dowman<\/p>\n

AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Dowman looked ready for first-team action after that, and he seized his opportunity here with a lively 30-minute cameo.<\/p>\n

Deployed on the right wing, the 15-year-old caused his opposite number problems from the off and flashed a few efforts wide of the post.<\/p>\n

Dowman\u2019s best moment came at the death, though, when he won a penalty in the final minutes. A dream ending to a dream day for Arsenal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arsenal have now won both their Premier League games this season, without conceding, and will head to reigning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,56206,80,16,15,165],"class_list":{"0":"post-368982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-max-dowman","13":"tag-mikel-arteta","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-viktor-gyokeres"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115082028695239848","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}