The Arsenal Wrap

It wouldn't be Arsenal without everything going wrong when everything is going right would it. After a perfect start Mikel Arteta has suffered his first major setback in the hands of two injuries to defensive midfielders Mohamed Elneny and Thomas Partey.  Thomas continued his injury prone record at Arsenal with the Ghanaian missing Arsenal's match against Fulham due to a minor injury, his deputy in Mohamed Elneny filled in as his replacement and put in a solid performance once again in his place however as of this morning it has come to light the Egyptian picked up a major hamstring injury during the game and is set to spend a lengthy time on the side-line for the foreseeable future and all though Partey's injury isn't major he is set to out for a couple of weeks and will definitely miss the next two games which take place this week including that massive away game to Manchester United.  So let's have a look at what potential midfield options Mikel Arteta can choose...

  Arsenal continued their 100% perfect start to the Premier League season with a superb fighting comeback win against fellow Londoners Fulham.  Arsenal were giving a massive blow before kick off had even started when it came the front that Zinchenko and Partey were to miss the game due to injuries so in came Tierney and Elneny respectively.  From kick off Arsenal dominated Fulham however couldn't find the opening goal with the visitors putting in a stern defensive performance. Despite chances from Saka, Jesus and Xhaka the gunners couldn't find a way past former Arsenal man Bernd Leno who put in a great performance on his return to the Emirates.  Arsenal were punished for not taking their chances when Gabriel made a huge defensive blunder and let Aleksandar Mitrovic take the ball off him to net his 100th Fulham goal. They weren't behind for long when Martin Odegaard, who had been head and shoulders the best player on the pitch equalised thanks to a deflected shot. Af...

Arsenal made easy work of newly promoted Bournemouth  Arsenal made it three wins from three from their opening three Premier League games for only the third time in the club's history with a comfortable 3-0 away win at newly promoted Bournemouth, the only two previous times being 03/04 and 04/05. Arsenal came out the blocks with Arsenal captain  Martin Odegaard netting his first Arsenal brace in the first ten minutes, largely thanks to some great play from Gabriel Jesus in both goals. It could of easily been more in the first 45 minutes with Arsenal playing some scintillating stuff and the Cherries were struggling to get any sort of possession at all with Arsenal having 74% of the ball for the first 45.  The third goal eventually came from an unlikely scorer, while he scored in the wrong end last week, spurred on by his new chant William Saliba netted his first Arsenal goal in stunning fashion smashing the ball into the top corner from just inside the box on his weak foot...