Aug 17, 2025, 12:33 PM ET<\/p>\n
The second half is underway at Old Trafford as Manchester United<\/a> trailed after just 13 minutes, with Riccardo Calafiori<\/a> putting Arsenal<\/a> 1-0 up in the big game of the Premier League<\/a>‘s opening weekend.<\/p>\n United finished 15th last season, while Arsenal lost out on the Premier League title to Liverpool<\/a>, but it’s a new season and anything can happen.<\/p>\n The Gunners hand a debut to new striker Viktor Gy\u00f6keres<\/a>, who made his name under Man United manager Ruben Amorim at Sporting CP<\/a>, but United’s new striker Benjamin Sesko<\/a> is only on the bench as Bryan Mbeumo<\/a> and Matheus Cunha<\/a> start. There was also no place for Rasmus H\u00f8jlund<\/a> in the United squad, while goalkeeper Andr\u00e9 Onana<\/a> is not fit enough to play and is replaced by Altay Bayindir<\/a>.<\/p>\n Earlier, world champions Chelsea<\/a> were held to a 0-0 draw against FA Cup champions Crystal Palace<\/a>. Palace gave starts to forward Eberechi Eze<\/a> and defender Marc Gu\u00e9hi<\/a>, despite them being heavily linked with transfers, and both played a huge role in the main talking point of the game as Eze’s first-half free kick was slammed home, but VAR ruled it out due to Gu\u00e9hi disrupting the wall.<\/p>\n In the day’s other game, Nottingham Forest<\/a> thrashed Brentford<\/a> 3-1 as striker Chris Wood<\/a> kept up his fine recent form with two goals. The New Zealand striker bagged his 90th and 91st Premier League goals in the first half, either side of a header from new signing Dan Ndoye<\/a>, to give Forest an easy win, before Brentford’s Igor Thiago got one back from the penalty spot.<\/p>\n Join us for another packed day of highlights and commentary from ESPN’s writers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 17, 2025, 12:33 PM ET The second half is underway at Old Trafford as Manchester United trailed…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":153561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-153560","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115045124900317671","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}