Complete false start for Arsenal in the new Premier League season!
Gunners embarrassingly lose 2-0 in opener against promoted Brentford on Friday night; the Arsenal disaster continues after finishing eighth last season.
Arsenal-Alptraum Reloaded!
For Brentford with German U21 European champion Vitaly Janelt (23), who played 90 minutes, Canos (22nd) and Nörgaard (73rd) met at the sold-out Brentford Community Stadium (16,479 spectators). Arsenal: pale, unimaginative, just weak.
Liverpool legend and “Sky UK” expert Jamie Carragher (43) also features Arsenal on TV, says: “It’s just Arsenal. Weak, intimidated, men against boys again. New season, same old story.
The 0: 2 in particular causes a lot of problems for all Arsenal fans: Nörgaard arrives completely free at the long post to the header and can cover it. Particularly weak: Arsenal’s defenders, who stayed too far away.
Carragher: “Just come in and Norgaard at the far post … the goalkeeper can’t do anything, neither Pablo Mari nor Ben White, Calum Chambers are all over the place and the score is 2-0. Weak!”
For Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta (39), the air is getting thinner after the disappointing last season and defeat at the beginning. The coach: “I don’t want to make excuses. We had a team that was good enough to get a different result. “
Arteta continues: “We know we have to improve. We have big games ahead of us and we need a different performance to achieve a better result. “
In the next match, the “Gunners” will face the Champions League champion FC Chelsea with the Germans Timo Werner, Antonio Rüdiger and Kai Havertz.
A performance similar to that of the newly promoted Brentford could threaten the next bankruptcy …
