“I hope I can recover really well because tomorrow I will need super fresh legs again.” “I’m really happy with how I felt today,” Evenepoel said. Riders face another difficult mountain stage in Asturias on Sunday. Roglic, going for an unprecedented fourth straight Vuelta title, had his preparations affected by a fall at the Tour de France. My team was superb today, we controlled from the start, and it wasn’t easy.” “But it was good to see Primoz being really strong today, it’s nice to see him like this. “I took time on a lot of guys except for the two most important ones, Primoz and Enric,” said Evenepoel, the Belgian rider from team Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl. Rudy Molard started Saturday’s tough mountain stage 21 seconds off the lead in second place, but dropped nearly 10 minutes behind. Overall, Evenepoel was 28 seconds in front of Mas and 61 seconds ahead of Roglic. He was 1 minute, 20 seconds behind Vine but came in along with his main challengers in the overall classification - Enric Mas and three-time defending champion Primoz Roglic. Remco Evenepoel, who was second to Vine in the sixth stage on Thursday, kept the leader’s red jersey by crossing the line in fifth place. “I’ve just got so much more confidence after that first one. “It’s incredible,” the Alpecin-Deceuninck rider said. Vine impressed on the grueling final climb to beat Marc Soler, Rein Taaramae and Thibaut Pinot by more than 40 seconds in a foggy eighth stage in northern Spain. The Australian won his second Vuelta stage on Saturday, two days after overcoming a flat tire to take his first win at a Grand Tour race. LAVIANA, Spain: Jay Vine is having fun in the Spanish Vuelta. Travers kept the score down in the closing stages with impressive saves from Jesus and Eddie Nketiah, but after a 4-0 defeat to defending champions City last weekend this was another lesson in the step up to the top flight for the Cherries.
Only the tightest of offside calls on a VAR review denied Jesus the goal his performance deserved after he slotted in from Odegaard’s wonderful pass. Saliba swept Granit Xhaka’s pass into the top corner from just outside the area to kill off any threat of a Bournemouth fightback. The Frenchman spent the last three seasons on loan since Arsenal splashed out £27 million on him as an 18-year-old, but he is quickly making his mark at both ends of the field. The league leaders had to wait until the second period to make their control show on the scoreboard but did so in spectacular style thanks to Saliba’s first goal for the club.
The Norwegian was also in the right place to round off another flowing team move for the second as Bukayo Saka and Ben White combined down the right and Jesus’ touch teed up Odegaard to fire powerfully into the far corner.Īrsenal went on to dominate the rest of the first half as Bournemouth chased shadows in the sun on the English south coast. Mark Travers was equal to Martinelli’s low shot, but the rebound fell kindly for Odegaard to tap into an empty net. The Brazilian showed his strength to outmuscle Marcos Senesi and play in Gabriel Martinelli in the move that led to the opening goal.
Jesus was again at the heart of the visitors’ best attacking play, even if the former Manchester City forward failed to add to his two goals in his first two appearances for the club. Twelve months on, they are a team transformed with the arrivals of Gabriel Jesus and Oleksandr Zinchenko helping a side that finished fifth last season to reach a new level. Three games into last season, Arsenal were without a single point and off to their worst start in 67 years. William Saliba’s sweet strike in the second half gave the scoreline a fair reflection of the Gunners’ dominance as Mikel Arteta’s men continued their perfect start to the season after three games. BOURNEMOUTH, United Kingdom: Arsenal stormed to the top of the Premier League as newly-appointed captain Martin Odegaard struck twice inside 11 minutes in a comprehensive 3-0 win at Bournemouth on Saturday.
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