Saturday 14 September 2013 20:26, UK
Mesut Ozil set Arsenal on the way to victory at Sunderland on his debut, Tottenham Hotspur eased past Norwich City and David Moyes enjoyed his first home win as Manchester United manager on Saturday.
Gylfi Sigurdsson scored a goal in each half as Tottenham produced a controlled performance to beat Norwich 2-0 at White Hart Lane. Christian Eriksen and Roberto Soldado were heavily involved for Spurs, with the Spain international's impudent back-heel coming back off the post after the Dane's run into the box. Those two players combined to create Spurs' opening goal on 28 minutes as Soldado laid the ball off for Eriksen and his perfect pass played in Sigurdsson to finish. Spurs increased their lead three minutes into the second half when Paulinho's low cross from the right wasn't cut out by Norwich keeper John Ruddy and Sigurdsson finished from close range at the far post. Manchester City again looked far from fluent away from home as Stoke created the better chances in a largely forgettable 0-0 draw at the Britannia Stadium. Aston Villa suffered a third defeat in a row after Hatem Ben Arfa was the inspiration again for a 2-1 win in the Midlands. Loic Remy, making his first start for Newcastle, set up the opening goal on 18 minutes when he drove into the box and his low cross deflected into the path of Ben Arfa to sweep home from six yards out. Villa equalised midway through the second half when the in-form Christian Benteke rose powerfully to head home a corner to take advantage of poor goalkeeping from Tim Krul. But Newcastle were back in front six minutes later when substitute Yoan Gouffran side-footed home after Brad Guzan parried Ben Arfa's well-struck shot. Gareth McAuley left it late to score West Brom's first goal of the season as his side avoided defeat at Fulham for only the second time at Craven Cottage in the Premier League after a 1-1 draw. Fulham took a 22nd-minute lead when a corner dropped to Steve Sidwell about 12 yards out and he drilled a volley beyond Boaz Myhill. The Cottagers thought they had scored a second in the final 10 minutes after Bryan Ruiz's shot came back off the crossbar and then Hugo Rodallega volleyed home, but Sidwell had been offside before he set up the Colombian. And in the final minute West Brom delivered the sucker punch as Chris Brunt chipped a corner towards the far post where McAuley steamed in to head past David Stockdale. Last season's top two in the Championship played out a 1-1 draw as Cardiff City came from behind to take a point at Hull City. The Tigers went ahead five minutes before half-time when Tom Huddlestone's whipped cross was watched by a static Cardiff defence and Curtis Davies stole in at the far post to head past Joe Lewis. Cardiff levelled just before the hour mark following a well-constructed team move which ended with Don Cowie crossing from the right and Peter Whittingham timing his run to finish first time left footed.
