Arsenal beat Watford 3-1 on Saturday to claim their first win of the Premier League season, and are poised to significantly strengthen their squad before Wednesday’s transfer deadline.
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Mesut Ozil was making his first start of the season after being rested following Euro 2016 and Arsenal’s German playmaker made up for lost time with a headed goal in first-half stoppage time. Watford, half-asleep, then allowed the Chilean to turn provider when Mesut Ozil nodded home unmarked on the stroke of half time.
Mazzarri responded by introducing Pereyra at the interval and he marked his debut with a well-taken goal 12 minutes into the second half, bending a strike past Cech to reduce the arrears. In the second half we played good football and we should have scored more. “I don’t know exactly when we’ll announce it, but I think we’ll announce it in the middle of the week”.
Wenger joked that he is “scared” of the total sum that Arsenal seem certain to spend and predicts the Premier League clubs will easily top £1 billion in summer transfer spending.
– Alexis Sanchez has scored in all three of his Premier League appearances versus Watford, while also assisting two goals in these matches.
“I’m happy that you noticed that, because 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”.
” Watford went for it absolutely because we couldn’t score the fourth goal and because we dropped physically and I think that we win games here but they are physically very strong, very determined”.
Arsenal made the flawless start when Ozil, who was making his first start of the season, clipped a attractive ball onto the chest of Sanchez. He’s a great player, we have a lot of players in this position, great players like Coquelin, Elneny, Jack Wilshere. “They are just over the fences ( at their respective training grounds ) and against us they are always really up for it”.
Bet365 make Arsenal 8/11 favourites to win this one with Watford 4/1 outsiders.
“We had to work very hard to get the signings done”.
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Arsenal had seven shots on target in this game, six of which were in the first half. “We have not got any plans for anyone else now”.
