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Sport: Wenger faults EPL kick-off date and Arsenal breaks home defeat streak on EPL’s season’s opener


Arsenal boss, Arsene Wenger believes that the Premier League season should have been kicking off one week later than scheduled to give international players the chance to recover from the World Cup.
Wenger had 11 of his squad out in Brazil, and winners Mesut Ozil, Per Mertesacker and Lukas Podoski, have only just returned to training after their exploits with Germany.
“We could have done with one week later in all the competitions,” Wenger is quoted as saying by BBC Sport.
“The final of the World Cup was on July 13; the start of the Premier League season is August 16. If you want to give some holiday to the players, your preparation becomes very short.
“If you don’t give players enough holiday or enough build-up in their preparation and play them straight away, then they get injured.”

Arsenal breaks home defeat streak on EPL’s season’s opener

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. As Ramsey’s late strike sinks Palace
Aaron Ramsey’s stoppage-time goal ensured victory for Ar­senal yesterday against Crystal Palace in the only win for the home side in all the seven matches decided on the opening day of the 2014/2015 English Pre­mier League season.
Manchester United, Queens Park Rangers, Stoke City and West Ham United had all suffered home defeats to Swansea, Hull City, Aston Villa and Tottenham Hotspur respectively in three of the six matches decided earlier in the day, while the matches involving Leicester City and Ever­ton as well as the West Bromwich Albion versus Sunderland ended 2-2 re­spectively.
Brede Hangeland headed Palace, play­ing without a manager, in front after 35 minutes while Laurent Kosci­elny also replied with a header from a well-taken free kick by new signing, Alexis Sanchez on the stroke of halftime.
Palace, who were rocked by manager Tony Pulis’s shock exit on Thursday, seemed to have earned a point with a stub­born defensive display but Welshman Ramsey tucked in a rebound after Mathieu Debuchy’s shot was half-saved by Julian Speroni.
Palace had been re­duced to 10 men shortly before Arsenal’s late win­ner when Jason Puncheon received a second yellow card.
Earlier on, Swansea City stunned Manches­ter United 1-2 at the Old Trafford in the season’s opener to hand Louis van Gaal defeat in his first EPL game in charge as United’s manager.
Stoke City playing without Nigeria’s duo of Osaze Odemwingie and new signing, Brown Ideye, also went down at home 0-1to Gabriel Agbolahor’s Aston Vil­la. QPR and West Ham United complete the list of teams that tasted home defeat on Day One of the new EPL season.

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