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Arsenal claim derby honours v Chelsea, Everton level late v Man Utd

Arsenal needed to come from behind to win a breathless game 2-1 against Chelsea at the Emirates Stadium as Kai Havertz scored for the third time in the Premi...

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Arsenal needed to come from behind to win a breathless game 2-1 against Chelsea at the Emirates Stadium as Kai Havertz scored for the third time in the Premier League against his former club.

Havertz netted midway through the first half to equalise after Morgan Rogers, who the champions missed out on signing during the transfer window, had stunned home fans with a volleyed goal after 77 seconds.

The Germany international was instrumental too in Martin Odegaard's 50th-minute winner, executing a delightful dummy to leave Chelsea's defence flatfooted and create room for the captain to rifle home.

Chelsea had lost four league games in a row at the Emirates, conceding 11 goals, but here they gave Arsenal a far sterner examination than at any time during that sequence, with the front three of Cole Palmer, Joao Pedro and Rogers again showing their potential as assets in a possible title challenge.

Yet Xabi Alonso appeared no closer to solving the enigma of a team so irresistible in attack yet too easily pulled into all the wrong shapes defensively and in midfield.

In truth, Arsenal's play and Chelsea's wobbles ought to have brought victory by a larger margin, Emiliano Martinez with a wonderful stop to deny Bukayo Saka, before David Raya gave a reminder of his own indispensability with an even better save to keep out Estevao.

Earlier, Ainsley Maitland-Niles scored a dream stoppage-time equaliser on his Everton debut to earn a 2-2 draw against Manchester United and lift the mood at the end of a difficult week.

Deadline day ended in disappointment for fans of both clubs but the Toffees' inaction was particularly concerning given Tuesday's botched business left them with a threadbare squad and an unhappy manager.

David Moyes admitted he had "to live with disappointments" and called for Everton players to "muck in", but Sunday looked set to end in further frustration after substitute Benjamin Sesko's 88th-minute header put United on course for a late victory.

Tyrique George's thunderous strike had cancelled out a fine Bryan Mbeumo effort moments earlier but the Slovenia international would not prove United's match-winning substitute for the second time at Hill Dickinson Stadium this year.

Instead, deadline-day acquisition Maitland-Niles came off the bench to rifle home from distance to snatch a dramatic late point and spark bedlam.

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