“Our season will be defined by beating the teams around us”.
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Arsenal secured their first league win of the season on Saturday when they won 3-1 away to Watford, and will use the worldwide break to strengthen their squad with a couple of signings.
Kaboul, the former Tottenham and Sunderland defender, endured a torrid Watford debut, but is confident things will improve.
Walter Mazzarri is still waiting for his first win as Watford boss having lost three out of four games in all competitions since his summer appointment.
Asked about how good Ozil’s performance was, Wenger replied: “Especially in the first half”.
Arsene Wenger has confirmed Valencia defender Shkodran Mustafi and Deportivo striker Lucas Perez have completed their moves to Arsenal. Firstly Alexis Sanchez bundled home a Walcott cross to make it 2-0, before Özil headed in a third right on half-time after linking up with Sanchez once more.
Watford: Watford has only one injury problem with Djedje missing with hamstring problem. “(Robert) Pereyra, (Daryl) Janmaat, (Younes) Kaboul and Success all came in and did very well”.
Milner opened the scoring with a 43rd-minute penalty after Erik Lamela had fouled Roberto Firmino, but Philippe Coutinho and Sadio Mane were both denied during a one-sided first half.
“The first half we did well, scored three goals and could have scored more”, the keeper reflected. The next two will be very important for us’. He’s a great player, we have a lot of players in this position, great players like Coquelin, Elneny, Jack Wilshere.
“We had a good cushion at halftime”, Wenger added. At the moment we are not completely there physically and could see that in the second half. “I don’t know exactly when we’ll announce it, but I think we’ll announce it in the middle of the week”.
In the 57th minute, the two new arrivals played key roles in their side getting back into the game.
“They will integrate into the team now and we will help them”, said the manager. “I believe in hard work and that will get us results”. “We have not got any plans for anyone else now”.
9 – The number of penalties Watford have given away since the start of the 2015-16 Premier League season.
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– The Hornets have now used 21 different players in the Premier League this season, with 17 different nationalities represented.
