“Arsenal is usually a football playing team but last time against us there was a lot of long balls and always to Olivier Giroud [who scored two goals in the match]”.
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The first Premier League match week is nearly over, but two league giants have yet to play. On that front, if you are consistent it could be easier’.
Wenger will need to do some creative work with his back line if Koscielny isn’t ready, and so it may be Callum Chambers and either left-back Nacho Monreal or new signing Rob Holding starting at center-back for the Gunners. A win would be the flawless start to a campaign in which the Premier League is the aim.
To date, Arsenal’s most expensive signing ever was Mesut Ozil, who cost £42.5m when he arrived from Real Madrid in 2013. “No matter how much is demanded of you, you can only give your best”. And when queried as to whether he has the players available to him to increase Arsenal’s goal tally from last season, Wenger added: “Yes, because our finishing last year was of a worse quality than the year before and we had the same players”.
“It is becoming that (a financial competition) more but the financial competition does not always reflect the Premier League table”.
The Anfield ace will be on hand at DStv’s new football season’s kick-off event where fans can get to meet the legend and watch Manchester United go up against Bournemouth at 1:30 pm and Arsenal face Liverpool at 4 pm which will be broadcast on SuperSport 3. We have to make sure that is the case.
Stability is one thing Arsenal will be missing in defence for Liverpool’s season-opening visit to the Emirates tomorrow.
He explained that Sanchez played in pre-season and noted that they have “a lot of wonderful players” going forward, such as Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Santi Cazorla.
Former Manchester City winger Trevor Sinclair has told Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger that he needs to splash the cash on a top notch striker in order to win the Premier League title. Meanwhile, Arsenal’s best defender and most important player, Laurent Koscielny, will miss the match due to fatigue after returning late in the summer from his global excursions in the European Championships.
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Expectations will be high for the first game of Klopp’s first full season with the club.
