Arsenal Tops Leicester City in Premier League Opener
Olivier Giroud completed an exhilarating comeback as host Arsenal
beat Leicester, 4-3
, on Friday to ensure Arsène Wenger’s team opened
the Premier League season with a victory for only the second time in
eight years.
Arsenal
mounted a comeback in the closing minutes at Emirates Stadium. After
Aaron Ramsey had tied the game in the 83rd minute, Giroud scored two
minutes later to seal the victory.
The
newcomer Alexandre Lacazette got off to a perfect start by scoring
within two minutes of kickoff. But as so often happens in the opening
round, Arsenal imploded as Shinji Okazaki and Jamie Vardy scored to put
Leicester in front.
Danny
Welbeck tied the game before halftime, but Vardy restored Leicester’s
lead after the break. But Leicester, which astonishingly won the league
in 2016, could not hold on for its first win at Arsenal since 1973.
Instead, Wenger avoided a third straight season-opening loss.
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