Arsenal ended the phase of the Champions League with a 2-1 win against a team from Girona from the competition before the game started.
The former Tottenham Hotspur loan leader Arnaut Danjuma put Girona in the lead in the middle of the first half, remarkably the first open playor to grant Arsenal in Europe this season.
But Jorginho Gloss from the penalty point, while Ethan Nwaneri’s first Champions League goal had decisively presented the Gunners before the half-time pipe.
Raheem Sterling also missed a penalty in added time that would have been the icing on the cake.
How the game unfolds
The Gunners had two early hits in North Catalonia. Leandro Trossard might have expected to do it better when he met Ethan Nwaneris cross into the penalty area with his body, while Riccardo Calafiori soon had the ball with a decent finish that was slightly away from the case.
Danjuma looked threatening in Girona’s left flank, but Neto was not tested and Arsenal would have been satisfied with her control level and her relative comfort a quarter of the way through the competition. When the hosts took the lead, it was quite out of the blue.
Arsenal was cut through a single pass into the left channel of Center-Back Juanpe. Danjuma ran on it and, when he had Neto 30 meters from the goal, saw a shot around the stranded Brazilian, who was still diving, even though the ball had led to a red card with the ball.
The Gunners reacted well and had completely turned the game at the end of the first half. Thomas Party Bulldozing Run in the box was responsible for drawing the Arsenal level, struggling through Tackles and being removed by Arnau Martinez. Jorginho held his serenity in the middle of the Heckles from the home fans and shot into the lower right corner.
Nwaneri’s starting stroke a few moments later was the next level, although he was not afraid when he cut inwards from the right and fired an unstoppable strike with his left foot that went beyond the reach of Pau Lopez. It was also time for Trossard to hit the bar from a narrow angle shortly before the interval.
Arsenal stayed above. The half-time replacement Jurrien Timber accidentally held an Nwaneri corner of direct nestling into the lower corner in his own attempts to turn the ball into it.
Girona made five changes in the first 25 minutes of the second half to change things and give arsenal different questions about answering. Mikel Areta also continued to use his bank and gave Myles Lewis Skelly another opportunity and threw Kai Havertz.
Just when the game seemed to be exchanged, the hosts had a potential compensation from the replacement and club-like Cristhian Stuani from Var for offside. Neto also made a comfortable storage of Martinez ‘header from Martinez and the lack of strength late.
Sterling had the chance to make himself particularly sure about the victory in death, and won a penalty after Alejandro Frances had hit a hand on the loose ball when he appeared. The Loan’s wing player appeared himself, but saw Lopez the resulting stain that was covered for a corner.
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Since a top-dot finish was effectively insured before the kick-off, it was clear that the team selection of Mikel Areta was more than a little motivated by the Premier League collision on Sunday in the Emirates stage.
William Saliba, Declan Rice, Kai Havertz, Gabriel Martinelli and Jurrien Timber started on the bench. David Raya traveled to Spain with the squad, but was “not fit” by the manager and did not make the selection. The veteran loan Neto received a debut instead.
Depending on the availability of Raya, all six is expected to return at the weekend if Arsenal will look for a win to keep as much pressure on Liverpool as possible and to achieve nine points between yourself and the city.
Neto borrowed the outcome of Aaron Ramsdale from Bournemouth’s borrowing last summer and had to wait for his debut to date because he had tied in the Carabao Cup Cup.
At the age of 35 and 194, the Brazilian Arsenal’s oldest debutant had been the 36-year-old Ned Liddell in 1915 for 110 years. But it was no reason that he would like to look back. He had a nervous moment on the ball almost directly from the opening of the opening and later a moment of madness when he was caught 30 meters in front of the goal in No-Man when Girona took the lead.
Since Raya was excluded from injuries in this case, it is not good for important games if that was a little more than just a precaution.
A player at the other end of his career was completely unimpressed and that was Ethan Nwaneri. The 17-year-old summarizes the old cliché “If you are good enough, you are old enough” together and does a great job in the fact that Bukayo Saka’s absence is displayed so hard.
Nwaneri is a player with self-confidence and his excellent Maiden Champions League goal shortly before half-time, at his first start in the competition, was proof of this. Jude Bellingham is the only Englishman who scored a goal of Champions League at a younger age – only 25 days.
As much as Nwaneri was impressed and Leandro Trossard has a positive influence, Arsenal was not available in the penalty area in order to really make their superior quality optimal.
Trossard is not a natural “number nine”, nor is a common starter Kai Havertz. Gabriel Jesus made an appropriate impression of a center forward at times, but the Brazilian is inconsistent and is excluded with a serious knee injury for the foreseeable future.
arsenal need A striker. It is the piece of the puzzle that has been missing for years.
Shortly before this, Arsenal was rejected with an offer for Aston Villa Front-Man Ollie Watkins. It would need a lot to land the English international before the transfer on Monday, while other rumored destinations such as Dusan Vlahovic or Benjamin Sesko may be much more accessible in summer.
In the age of PSR, Arsenal cannot panic and do it wrong. But it feels like they never exploit their full potential until the team is complete in advance with an appropriate top scorer.
The rotation in the Arsenal series gave Raheem Sterling a rare start. The 30-year-old wing player found only the network against Bolton Wanderers in the Carabao Cup this season in the Carabao Cup.
Since his season with 31 goals for Manchester City, it has been five years and it seems as if this player is only being removed. Although he won the late punishment that he could not convert himself, Sterling was the least effective of arsenal attackers in this case and, if so, warned to rub more salt into this wound.
The waiting to be the first player to score a goal for three English clubs in the Champions League.