“It’s important that a player who comes from Bolton, comes to a club where he concedes four goals in the first game at home, he has to play under huge pressure at Leicester and today he performs the way he does”.
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It was only the Germany international’s 21st goal for the north London football club since joining them from Real Madrid in 2013 – and Wenger admitted that for a player widely regarded as world-class it is an area where he can still improve. Everything was positive, so I was convinced very fast.
It was, though, one of their new arrivals who provided the most noteworthy display of all at Vicarage Road.
“We live to fight another day”, he said.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has praised summer signing Granit Xhaka following his performance during Saturday’s 3-1 win over Watford. “He is a young and very talented player”, Hargreaves told BT Sport during their coverage of Thursday’s Champions League group-stage draw.
A 57th minute debut goal from Hornets substitute Roberto Pereyra gave Walter Mazzarri’s side hope.
I know we wanted another defender, but Wenger could just as easily have brought in another striker, and a midfielder instead, with Julian Draxler, James Rodriguez and Marcelo Brozovic all having been linked with switches to us, and all believed to be available this month.
The Switzerland worldwide made his first start in the goalless draw at Leicester but shone as the Gunners beat Watford 3-1 at Vicarage Road.
“We paid a heavy price in our first game (the 4-3 defeat by Liverpool) because we were not ready”. We might even get the rare double announcement on Tuesday, which would be fun. For us, the (international) break is not welcome. They will integrate into the team now and we will help them join squad.
The pressure had been on Wenger and his side heading into the weekend after ideal starts from both Manchester clubs had left them playing catch-up.
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Petr Cech believes Arsenal’s first-half showing at Watford has got their season under way as the Gunners picked up their first win of the campaign. He’s a manager with a lot of experience in Italy and has a new challenge here.
