{"id":170774,"date":"2025-08-24T03:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T03:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/170774\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T03:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T03:47:10","slug":"riccardo-calafiori-lauds-arsenal-game-changer-who-william-saliba-calls-the-best-after-leeds-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/170774\/","title":{"rendered":"Riccardo Calafiori lauds Arsenal &#8216;game changer&#8217; who William Saliba calls &#8216;the best&#8217; after Leeds win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Arsenal have emerged victorious in the Premier League against Leeds United, with the Gunners dominating proceedings in a 5-0 victory.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/topic\/mikel-arteta\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mikel Arteta\u2019s<\/a> side have started off their Premier League campaign in fine form. After an opening-weekend victory against Manchester United, the Gunners saw off more northern opposition, this time on home soil, in Leeds.<\/p>\n<p>And aside from <a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/mikel-arteta-gives-immediate-bukayo-saka-and-martin-odegaard-injury-update-after-leeds-clash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bukayo Saka and Martin Odegaard getting injured<\/a>, it was a game to remember. Viktor Gyokeres scored twice to get his career really going, <a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/gyokeres-and-dowman-steal-headlines-but-100-take-on-arsenal-man-quietly-dominates-vs-leeds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Max Dowman made his Premier League debut<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/topic\/jurrien-timber\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jurrien Timber<\/a> got two goals and an assist.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"687\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2231697521-1024x687.jpg\" alt=\"Jurrien Timber of Arsenal celebrates after scoring a goal to make it 4-0 during the Premier League match between Arsenal and Leeds United\" class=\"wp-image-979220\" \/>Photo by Catherine Ivill \u2013 AMA\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The latter was quite remarkable, and <a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/topic\/arsenal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arsenal<\/a> players have reacted to this on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Riccardo Calafiori and William Saliba praise Jurrien Timber<\/p>\n<p>Timber took to Instagram after the victory to write the following: \u201cPerfect day at home\u201d, was the caption.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, after his heroics, Arsenal teammates flooded the comments. Here were a few of the notable ones:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"inline-links multi\">\n<li>Riccardo Calafiori: \u201cGame changer\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>William Saliba: \u201cThe best\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Mikel Merino: \u201cHeader after header\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Declan Rice, Max Dowman and Gabriel also commented with numerous emojis, while Liverpool\u2019s Jeremie Frimpong was also found in the feed.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, there will probably be many more messages to follow, but these were the pick of the bunch at the time of writing.<\/p>\n<p>Jurrien Timber\u2019s numbers vs Leeds<\/p>\n<p>Timber deserves every bit of plaudits he received for his Leeds showing. The Dutchman was in inspired form, which was reflected in desirable stats on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jurri\u00ebn Timber\u2019s game by numbers vs. Leeds United:<\/p>\n<p>91% pass accuracy <br \/>57 total touches<br \/>5 passes into the final third <br \/>3 chances created <br \/>2 goals <br \/>1 assist<\/p>\n<p>An FPL manager\u2019s dream. \u26bd\ufe0f\u26bd\ufe0f\ud83c\udd70\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sFMqbazjqk\">pic.twitter.com\/sFMqbazjqk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Statman Dave (@StatmanDave) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StatmanDave\/status\/1959318824538284226?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 23, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>View Tweet<\/p>\n<p>Are those the statistics of a defender, or a forward? Quite remarkable. Timber is now joint top goalscorer at the Emirates this season alongside Gyokeres.<\/p>\n<p>Next week, Timber and Arsenal face the tough test of Liverpool, where once again he\u2019ll need to be on his A-game. Can he defy the odds and get on the scoresheet once more?<\/p>\n<p>  <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arsenal have emerged victorious in the Premier League against Leeds United, with the Gunners dominating proceedings in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":170775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[5407,6649,97592,97593,221,62,67,132,68,93978],"class_list":{"0":"post-170774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-arsenal","9":"tag-english-premier-league","10":"tag-jurrien-timber","11":"tag-riccardo-calafiori","12":"tag-soccer","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-william-saliba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115081697415018960","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170774","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=170774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}