Gabriel Jesus has continued to prove his worth in gameweek five of the 2022/23 Premier League season.
Coming into this home fixture with five-goal contributions from the first four Premier League outings. There was an expectation that Arsenal's new number 9 would continue his first start against an Aston Villa side who are struggling deeply under Steven Gerrard. Amid a frustrating start to the first half, which saw Bukayo Saka denied a penalty after Tyrone Mings had been adjudged to have not pulled his shirt in the box despite TV evidence suggesting otherwise.
The north Londoners continued to press and hustle for that elusive opening goal, and it came in the 30th minute when Jesus pounced on an Emiliano Martinez mistake to grab his third goal of the season and his sixth goal contribution in the process. At the same time as things were unfolding at the Emirates Stadium in the first half, his successor at the Etihad Stadium continued his electric form to life in the Premier League as the Norwegian netted a first-half hat-trick against Nottingham Forest.
