Arsenal Ruin Postecoglou Nottingham Forest’s Debut With 3-0 Win

Arsenal ruined Ange Postecoglou’s archetypal crippled successful complaint of Nottingham Forest arsenic Martin Zubimendi’s treble sealed a 3-0 triumph astatine the Emirates Stadium connected Saturday.

Zubimendi bagged his archetypal goals for the Gunners pursuing his close-season determination from Real Sociedad.

The Spain midfielder opened the scoring successful the archetypal fractional and netted again successful the closing stages aft Viktor Gyokeres doubled Arsenal’s pb soon aft the break.

Arsenal’s 3rd triumph successful 4 games took them to the apical of the array connected extremity quality up of Liverpool, who look Burnley connected Sunday.

A 1-0 decision against champions Liverpool successful their past lucifer earlier the planetary interruption had punctured the optimism astatine Arsenal aft successive wins against Leeds and Manchester United to commencement the season.

But this was the benignant of assured display, highlighted by Noni Madueke’s virtuoso performance, that Gunners brag Mikel Arteta believes volition support his broadside successful contention to triumph the title.

The lone acheronian unreality for Arteta was an wounded to Arsenal skipper Martin Odegaard, who was forced disconnected successful the archetypal fractional with what looked similar a enarthrosis problem.

Odegaard joined a lengthy wounded database that already includes Bukayo Saka, Kai Havertz, Gabriel Jesus and William Saliba.

It was a frustrating instrumentality to northbound London for Postecoglou, conscionable 3 months aft helium was unceremoniously sacked by Tottenham contempt winning the Europa League past play to extremity the club’s 17-year trophy drought.

Postecoglou was hired by Forest this week pursuing Nuno Espirito Santo’s dismissal aft his narration with proprietor Evangelos Marinakis collapsed.

Marinakis instantly piled unit connected Postecoglou, who presided implicit Tottenham’s worst top-flight decorativeness since 1976-77 past season, by claiming Forest were successful a presumption to situation for large trophies.

However, the Australian did not triumph a northbound London derby arsenic Tottenham brag and was incapable to usher Forest to their archetypal triumph connected Arsenal turf since 1989.