“We needed to respond after the first two games and got the vital three points”.
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Arsenal doubled their lead in the 39th minute when Sancez’s scuffed effort managed to cross over the goal line, after some good work by Theo Walcott.
The third was a great connection between Arsenal’s two most expensive players ever, as Alexis read a great Mesut Özil run perfectly, and Özil sank the unmarked header into the back of the net easily. They played well and changed their formation and put us under more pressure.
Sanchez then helped himself to a brilliant goal chipping over a wall of Watford players, while Ozil amazingly got on the end of Sanchez’s chip and headed us three up, all before half time!
Mazzarri responded by introducing Pereyra at the interval and he marked his debut with a well-taken goal 10 minutes into the second half, stealing in ahead of the impressive Granit Xhaka to bend a strike past Cech and reduce the arrears.
Meanwhile, Wenger has urged Mesut Ozil to build on his scoring start to the season after admitting the one element the midfielder’s game has lacked is goals.
The Hornets will aim to get back on track at Vicarage Road when they welcome the Gunners this Saturday as their first match at home ended in a 2-1 loss to Chelsea. “We had two hard away games (against Leicester City and Watford) but today I believe we had a good, solid performance”, Wenger said.
“I believe he has a good mixture of short and long balls, in midfield it is important for us to sometimes stretch the defenders”, Wenger continued.
With new players surely coming in the side, Arsenal must feel that they have enough in their resources to challenge for the title.
“They had medicals. We have to finish the paperwork and I don’t know exactly when we will announce it but look, I think it could be announced at the beginning of the week”. “We played a good game”, he said. “(Robert) Pereyra, (Daryl) Janmaat, (Younes) Kaboul and Success all came in and did very well”.
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“Cech was incredible and made some great saves”.
