Arsenal, Man City both win in comeback in Premier League

Having not won any matches since the beginning of the season and having to play away against a very strong opponent Arsenal this round, Southampton seems to be worried about losing, even losing by a large margin, before playing. The "Gunners" are showing impressive form with a series of 3 consecutive wins in all competitions and have scored 11 goals against their opponents...

That's why no one thought the Premier League newcomer would be the team to open the scoring in a game dominated from the start. Arsenal organized extremely dangerous attacks throughout the first half but Raheeem Sterling, Kai Havertz, Gabriel, and Jorginho all failed to finish.

Meanwhile, despite struggling to fend off the opponent's attacks throughout the first half of the match, Southampton surprisingly opened the scoring in the 55th minute. Mateus Fernandes kicked the ball accurately for Cameron Archer to escape and finish impressively, putting the ball neatly into the Arsenal net.

The home team were furious at the loss and after just 3 minutes, they equalized. Raheem Sterling passed the ball very delicately for Kai Havertz to run down and shoot diagonally, giving goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale no chance to block.

The former Arsenal goalkeeper had to pick the ball out of the net twice more in the 68th and 88th minutes after Gabriel Martinelli and Bukayo Saka finished. With a 3-1 aggregate win, Arsenal are confident of maintaining their position in the top 3 of the Premier League without worrying about any opponents "disrupting" them until after the FIFA Days break in October.

Taking place at the same time, the match between Man City and Fulham at Etihad Stadium also had the same "script" as the Arsenal - Southampton match. Rated much higher than Fulham despite being only 4 places above the London team on the rankings, Man City started the match with dominance in all aspects.

Ilkay Gundogan and Erling Haaland missed chances to open the scoring for Man City in just the first 4 minutes with shots that went wide of the post. Fulham's response was equally strong with Andreas Pereira scoring the opening goal in the 26th minute with a close-range tap-in.

If only Adama Traore had been a little luckier to double the lead for the visitors just 3 minutes later, no one could have predicted how the match would have turned out when Man City were 2 goals behind after less than half an hour.

Having escaped the loss, Man City began to respond, starting with a long-range shot by Mateo Kovacic in the 32nd minute to equalize 1-1 for Man City. It was still the Croatian midfielder who completed his own double by raising the score to 2-1 just 2 minutes into the second half.

Adama Traore had his third unsuccessful encounter with Man City goalkeeper Ederson, but home substitute Jeremy Doku was not far behind. After twenty minutes on the pitch, Doku scored to make it 3-2 for Man City.

Fulham refused to give up and in the 88th minute, substitute player Muniz narrowed the gap to 2-3 for the away team and it was a pity that they could not score another goal in the 6 minutes of extra time to get at least 1 point to leave.

The comeback victory helped Man City and Arsenal maintain a 1-point gap with the top team Liverpool.