ARSENAL joined Manchester City at the top of the Premier League on Saturday after leader City suffered another afternoon of penalty woes in a 1-1 draw with Everton that ended its 100 percent home record this season.

    Arsenal’s hard-earned 3-2 win over Swansea City, featuring a double from Theo Walcott, put the side level with City on 19 points but Pep Guardiola’s side remained as leader on goal difference.

    Tottenham Hotspur, which had started the day in second place, missed a chance to go top, needing an 89th-minute goal from Dele Alli to rescue a 1-1 draw at West Bromwich Albion and protect its record as the only unbeaten side in the league.

    Guardiola saw his side’s perfect record disappear at the Etihad after Kevin De Bruyne and Sergio Aguero both had poor penalties saved by Maarten Stekelenburg in a game the leaders dominated.

    City has now missed four of its eight penalties this season, leaving Guardiola to opine: “The players have all the qualities to score penalties but we miss a lot. Hopefully, we will score more of them in future.”

    Romelu Lukaku made City pay in between the missed spot-kicks with his sixth goal of the season for Everton before Nolito finally landed the reward for City’s pressure with a 72nd minute equalizer. Guardiola said he was “proud” of his players.

    Arsenal introduced Swansea’s new manager Bob Bradley, the first American to take charge of a top-flight English side, to the harsh realities of Premier League life as Arsene Wenger’s men won a sixth consecutive league match.

    Walcott struck twice in the space of seven minutes in the first half and came perilously close to a hat trick while Mesut Ozil also scored on his 28th birthday.

    Bradley, though, was impressed by his new charges, who gave Arsenal a fright, scoring twice through Gylfi Sigurdsson and Borja Baston, as the Gunners had to play the last 20 minutes without Granit Xhaka, dismissed for a trip.

    Chelsea, which moved up to fifth, hammered Leicester City 3-0.

    Goals from the league’s top scorer Diego Costa, Eden Hazard and Victor Moses made last season’s glory feel like pre-history for Claudio Ranieri, whose title winners had received a guard of honor at Stamford Bridge in May. (SD-Agencies)