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Arsenal have become the first side in Premier League history to concede a first minute goal on three occasions in the same calendar year.<\/p>\n
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Sloppy starts on home soil became something of a familiar theme during the run-in last season with Bournemouth infamously finding the back of the net in just 9.11 seconds.<\/p>\n
Arsenal fell further behind in the contest but on that occasion they were able to mount a famous comeback, culminating in Reiss Nelson\u2019s injury-time winner. <\/p>\n
More charitable defending allowed Southampton to open the scoring at the Emirates later on in the campaign when the title was still up for grabs as Carlos Alcaraz benefited from a wayward pass from Aaron Ramsdale.<\/p>\n
And the Arsenal goalkeeper as partly at fault again on Saturday when he was caught out of position by Pereira, whose astute near post finish completed an unwanted hat-trick for Mikel Arteta\u2019s side.<\/p>\n
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While Bukayo Saka also shouldered blame for his misdirected backpass, Ramsdale\u2019s positioning was brutally exposed by Pereira much to the annoyance of Martin Keown.<\/p>\n
He said: \u2018This was something we saw often at the end of last season when Arsenal didn\u2019t take advantage of their lead in the title race.<\/p>\n
\u2018Ramsdale is so far off his line, he does this so often and I\u2019m not sure why, and Pereira shoots into the near post.\u2019<\/p>\n