The Arsenal Wrap

After a two long week absence from playing Premier League football, Arsenal finally returned to Premier League action with a thoroughly dominant performance against Brentford.  After a scrappy opening start William Saliba nodded Arsenal in front with a superb header. A fantastic team goal which was finished off Gabriel Jesus gave Arsenal a 2-0 lead which how it stayed it was for half time.  Fabio Vieira who was given a huge chance after Martin Odegaard was unavailable due to injury and he took it with a stunning goal to top off a fantastic away win to return Arsenal to the top off the Premier League.  Player Ratings : Aaron Ramsdale: 7/10 Won't get an easier game this season. Very calm on the ball as usual. Ben White: 8/10 Once again proving Gareth Southgate wrong. Another superb performance at right back in a venue where he had a horrible time last year. William Saliba: 9/10 Saliba been carrying a knock for a couple weeks and yet he still puts a performance like that. He...

  Arsenal perfect start to the Premier League season came to an abrupt end at Old Trafford as they were beaten by a rejuvenated Manchester United side by three goals to one.  Mikel Arteta men have had a perfect start to the season despite a mini injury crisis they have won all their first five games comfortable. Now while you can only beat what's in front of you majority of people would of expected on paper for Arsenal to win all five of those games which is exactly what they did however this was the first real proper test against a inform Man United side who had won their last 3 games after their embarrassing start to the season and Arsenal failed this test.  It is easy to say Arsenal failed their first proper test of the season and all this early hype around Mikel Arteta's team should be wiped off after this game, that would simply be a extremely narrow minded view.  While the result really reflected the saying of "Same old Arsenal" the performance reflected the lo...