Cardiff City scored its first league goal of the season but Arsenal took the points as Alexandre Lacazette struck a superb late winner to secure a 3-2 victory in a Premier League thriller on Sunday.
Harry Arter wasted a glorious chance to give Cardiff the lead in the opening minutes following a dreadful mistake by ’keeper Petr Cech and shortly afterwards Arsenal went ahead when Shkodran Mustafi powered home a header from a corner.
Victor Camarasa sparked joyous scenes when he hammered home for the host just before the break after getting the better of Nacho Monreal.
Arsenal restored the lead just past the hour mark when Mesut Ozil and Lacazette combined well to tee up Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang to curl home from 20 yards but once again Cardiff responded with Danny Ward heading past Cech.
Lacazette sealed victory for Arsenal in the 81st minute when he was allowed to turn in the box by Sol Bamba before firing into the top corner.
On Saturday, a powerful long-range strike from Kyle Walker gave champion Manchester City a 2-1 win over Newcastle United at the Etihad Stadium.
Walker’s 52nd-minute strike, from over 25 yards out, was his first goal for City and came after Newcastle had fought back to go in level at the break.
City took the lead in the eighth minute through a wonderful strike from Raheem Sterling who cut in from the left and beat Newcastle ’keeper Martin Dubravka with a diagonal shot into the far corner.
The results:
Premier League: Cardiff 2 (Camarasa 45, Ward 70) lost to Arsenal 3 (Mustafi 12, Aubameyang 62, Lacazette 81).
Saturday: Premier League: Manchester City 2 (Sterling 8, Walker 52) bt Newcastle 1 (Yedlin 30); West Ham 0 lost to Wolves 1 (Traore 90).
La Liga: Real Madrid 4 (Bale 17, Benzema 48, 61, Sergio Ramos 66-pen) bt Leganes 1 (Guido Carillo 24-pen); Celta Vigo 2 (M. Gomez 46, Iago Aspas 52) bt Atletico Madrid 0.
Serie A: Bologna 0 lost to Inter Milan 3 (Nainggolan 66, Candreva 82, Perisic 85); Parma 1 (Gervinho 33) lost to Juventus 2 (Mandzukic 2, Matuidi 58).
Bundesliga: VfB Stuttgart 0 lost to Bayern Munich 3 (Goretzka 37, Lewandowski 62, Mueller 76); Hoffenheim 3 (Szalai 50, 63, Kramaric 90+4) bt Freiburg 1 (Heintz 36); Bayer Leverkusen 1 (Bailey 24) lost to Wolfsburg 3 (Gerhardt 36, Weghorst 55, Steffen 59); Eintracht Frankfurt 1 (Haller 54-pen) lost to Werder Bremen 2 (Osako 22, Rashica 90+6); Augsburg 1 (Gregoritsch 12) drew with Borussia Moenchengladbach 1 (Plea 68); Nuremberg 1 (Ishak 48) drew with Mainz 1 (Mateta 25) .
