Arsenal’s Emmanuel Frimpong was sent off with 20 minutes to go and Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish sent on Suarez and Meireles to take advantage.

Aaron Ramsey inadvertently deflected in Liverpool’s opener and Suarez netted the second in stoppage time.

In the northeast derby, Newcastle won 1-0 at Sunderland, while Alex McLeish’s first home game as Aston Villa manager ended in a 3-1 victory over Blackburn.

Two newly-promoted sides picked up their first points, with Queens Park Rangers winning 1-0 at Everton and Swansea drawing 0-0 against Wigan.

Liverpool now has its first victory after being held by Sunderland in the opener. The turning point at the Emirates Stadium was Frimpong’s second booking for a rash challenge on Lucas Leiva.

Liverpool shook up its attack and was piling the pressure on Arsenal when Ignasi Miquel’s attempted clearance from Suarez’s pullback came off Ramsey and looped into his own net.

Suarez swept the ball into the net for the second after latching onto a cross from Meireles.

“Obviously we are delighted it is a very difficult place to come that everyone knows about,” Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish said. “If that is an indication of how quickly they have settled we have a lot to look forward to.”

Arsenal now travels to Italy for Wednesday’s second leg of its Champions League playoff against Udinese, protecting a slender 1-0 lead with a shortage of players.

Already reeling from injuries and suspensions to key players, Arsenal center back Laurent Koscielny is set to miss two matches after coming off with a back problem after 15 minutes, forcing Wenger to hand the 18-year-old Miquel his league debut.

“We live under circumstances where every defeat is an absolutely a disgrace and an earthquake,” Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said. “We are very disappointed that we lost the game, but we are at the start of the season.”

Arsenal was held last weekend by Newcastle, which was celebrating Saturday after Ryan Taylor’s second-half free kick secured the win over fierce local rival Sunderland.

Taylor’s inswinging delivery from the left evaded everyone in the box, sailing over Sunderland goalkeeper Simon Mignolet’s outstretched arm and into the top corner.

Sunderland had defender Phil Bardsley sent off late on after receiving a second yellow card for a two-footed tackle on Fabricio Coloccini.

At Goodison Park, QPR celebrated its takeover by Malaysian businessman Tony Fernandes in style by winning its first match in the topflight in 15 years.

Tommy Smith controlled Akos Buzsaky’s pass before turning and shooting low into the far corner to clinch the win.

Everton was playing its first game of the season after its opener at Tottenham was postponed in the aftermath of the London riots.

The first Premier League match to be played in Wales saw Swansea goalkeeper Michel Vorm protect a 0-0 draw by saving Ben Watson’s penalty kick for Wigan.

Blackurn is still without a point two matches into the season after losing 3-1 at Villa.
 
Munich routs Hamburg 5-0; Dortmund also wins

Franck Ribery and Arjen Robben started a rare match together and scored in a 5-0 win for Bayern Munich over Hamburger SV in the Bundesliga on Saturday.

Defender Daniel van Buyten put the home side ahead against his former club in the 13th minute, with Ribery scoring four minutes later.

Robben dinked the ball over Jaroslav Drobny to score in the 34th, Mario Gomez scored from a narrow angle in the 56th, and substitute Ivica Olic added the fifth in the 80th.

Goals from Robert Lewandowski and Kevin Grosskreutz helped defending champion Borussia Dortmund to a 2-0 home win over Nuremberg.

Werder Bremen beat Freiburg 5-3, Stuttgart lost 1-0 at home to Leverkusen, and Hoffenheim beat newcomer Augsburg 2-0.

Hamburg’s previous coach Armin Veh was fired after losing 6-0 in Munich last March, and his successor Michael Oenning looked on helplessly as Bayern utterly dominated his young side again.

Munich might have scored even more, with Thomas Mueller hitting the post before the interval.

Robben sent in a free kick for van Buyten to score, before Ribery — playing in his 100th Bundesliga game — unleashed a low shot inside the far post.

Drobny pulled off a great save to deny Gomez from another Robben free kick, before the Dutch winger beat two defenders and lifted the ball over the goalkeeper from an angle.

After scoring 28 goals to finish the league as topscorer last season, Gomez finally got off the mark this season, before Olic marked his return from knee injury by heading in from close range.

Nuremberg started well in Dortmund, where Christian Eigler’s shot was blocked after US international Timothy Chandler picked him out with a precise cross, with Philipp Wollscheid heading over the resultant corner.