Pre-season underway at London Colney with a 5-1 win, what's next in the pre-season schedule?

Pre-season underway at London Colney with a 5-1 win, what's next?

Mikel Arteta taking charge of what will be his third full season in charge.

It was only 36 days since Arsenal closed out their 21/22 season with that 5-1 win against Everton to the start of pre-season for the 22/23 season, time has flown with hopefully most the players rested, recovered and slightly more tanned after a month on the beach but the hard work and build up for that tricky opening Premier League game against Crystal Palace starts now. 

Arsenal kicked off their pre season on Saturday with a 5-1 win against Ipswich Town of League One. Arsenal got off to a flying start thanks to Eddie Nketiah, wearing his new number 14 shirt he netted within the first 30 seconds, Eddie soon added to this with another two goals to complete a first half hat-trick, certainly Mikel Arteta will be hoping Eddie will continue this form with the imminent arrival of Gabriel Jesus to keep the Brazilian on his toes. Albert Sambi Lokonga and Folarin Balogun scored the two other goals the second and the fifth respectably. Arteta fielded two different teams for each half with the first being much stronger featuring the likes of Partey, Pepe and Ben White while the second half featured younger players such as Patino, Hutchinson and Matt Smith. 

  

    Eddie Nketiah celebrating with Nico Pepe



What is next for Arsenal in pre-season? 
With many of Arsenal international players missing like Saka, Saliba and Odegaard, Arsenal still don,'t expect all their international player to report back till next Wednesday or Thursday according to reports, Arsenal will travel to Germany on Monday with a weaker squad. New signings Vieira and Marquinhos are expected to travel with the squad along with the current first team players and the under 23 players involved in todays match. The week long training camp will conclude with a friendly against Nurnberg on July 8th.

Arsenal will head back to London Colney for a couple of days before jetting off to the USA for their US tour. Arsenal's international players along with new signings like Gabriel Jesus and Matt Turner will fly off with the team aswell. 

Arsenal face fellow Premier League side Everton on July 16th in Baltimore, Mikel Arteta will be hoping that he can gather some intel on Frank Lampard Everton side ahead of their Premier League meeting on the 10th of September. They then travel to Orlando, to play Orlando City and Chelsea respectively. 





Arsenal finish pre-season with the Emirates Cup where they play Sevilla at the Emirates on the July 30th. It will be the first time since 2019 the tournament will be played and it will be the 11th of edition of the pre-season competition.  


There will most likely be a couple of friendlies that will be played behind closed doors along with a kit launches and hopefully some new signings. Still a lot to look forward this summer ahead of that big opening Premier League game against Crystal Palace on August 5th.



   
 




 


























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