Bukayo Saka has joined an unique membership of Premier League icons by starring in Arsenal’s win over Aston Villa.
The Gunners sealed a 2-0 victory at Villa Park on Saturday, with Leandro Trossard and Thomas Partey serving to to proceed Mikel Arteta’s facet’s profitable begin to the season.
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The win implies that Saka has now been on the profitable facet in 100 of his 171 Premier League video games for Arsenal.
The winger is just the fourth participant to seal a century of victories within the competitors earlier than the age of 23 within the Premier League’s historical past.
Manchester United legend Wayne Rooney, former Arsenal and Chelsea midfielder Cesc Fabregas and Manchester Metropolis’s present star Phil Foden have additionally achieved the feat.
Saka turns 23 on September 5, lower than two weeks time.
Since his Arsenal first group debut in 2018, Saka has turn out to be a key participant for the Gunners, scoring 59 targets and grabbing 54 assists in 228 video games.
He made Premier League historical past when he got here on for his debut in Arsenal’s 4-1 win over Fulham on New 12 months’s Day in 2019.
On the age of 17, he turned the primary participant born in 2001 to play within the Premier League.
Now, 100 league wins later, he’s written himself within the historical past books as soon as once more.
And Saka virtually added to his goalscoring tally within the first half at Villa Park, just for Emiliano Martinez to brilliantly flip round his curling effort.
Although he did play a significant function in each of Arsenal’s second half targets within the Midlands, with Trossard firing the guests into the lead within the 67th minute after reacting quickest to Saka’s deflected cross.
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Simply ten minutes later, he assisted Partey’s long-range effort as Arsenal made it two wins from as many Premier League video games this season.
The consequence implies that the north London giants have equalled an unbelievable Soccer League document.
Arsenal are actually simply the third group after Liverpool in 1982 and Manchester Metropolis in 2019 and 2021 to win 18 out of their first 20 matches of a calendar 12 months.
And so they exacted the right revenge on Villa, who’re the one group to beat Arsenal this 12 months.
Villa did the Premier League double over Arsenal final time period, with the defeats finally seeing Arsenal miss out on the title by two factors.
And Gooners will likely be hoping they’re going to have a lot extra to cheer about within the coming weeks with Brighton, Tottenham and Manchester Metropolis on the horizon.
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