The Arsenal Wrap

Gabriel Jesus celebrates opening the scoring in Baltimore Arsenal have made it 3 wins out of 3 for pre-season with a win against fellow Premier League side Everton to open their US tour with a win. The damage was all done in three minutes where Arsenal scored two goals in the space of three minutes thanks to Jesus. The Gunners started strong with both sides putting out close to first team sides for the first 45. The game mirrored the match at the Emirates last May in the early exchanges where we saw Arsenal in complete control of possession and Everton playing park the bus and trying to hit Arsenal on the counter. The gunners pressing and pressure was causing all sorts of problems for Everton who almost gave a goal away after a poor back pass from Mason Holgate due to the pressure he was under was intercepted by Gabriel Jesus who had his shot saved by Jordan Pickford who kept Everton in the game for the first half. A minute later Arsenal came close again as Granit Xhaka hit th...

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 Lo...