Strength in depth at last? Zubimendi, Gyökeres spark Arsenal win

Mikel Arteta expressed his admiration for Liverpool's transportation concern connected the eve of this game, but Saturday's 3-0 win implicit Nottingham Forest was an aboriginal affirmative advert for Arsenal's summertime recruitment strategy.

While Liverpool smashed the British transportation grounds doubly successful 1 summertime by acquiring Florian Wirtz and past Alexander Isak, the Gunners signed 8 players for a combined interest of much than £260 cardinal successful an effort to debar past season's mistakes.

And for a while, this felt a batch similar past season. Arsenal were chiefly a menace from corners, they suffered different wounded arsenic Martin Ødegaard trudged disconnected aft conscionable 18 minutes and the instrumentality of Ange Postecoglou managing a squad wearing achromatic gave this a distinctly acquainted feel.

That was until the caller boys made their beingness felt. Noni Madueke had been Arsenal's astir unsafe subordinate successful the opening fractional an hr but it was different summertime arrival, Martín Zubimendi, who broke the deadlock with a stunning 32nd-minute volley.

Madueke's country -- of people determination was a country progressive determination -- was headed retired to the borderline of the container wherever Zubimendi caught the shot truthful sweetly that Murillo's flimsy deflection should not detract from the purity of the strike.

Ødegaard was replaced by Ethan Nwaneri -- who signed a caller declaration past period aft speculation helium could perchance permission -- earlier Eberechi Eze, making his afloat debut, provided his archetypal assistance for Arsenal's caller centre-forward Viktor Gyökeres to instrumentality his tally to 3 goals from 4 appearances.

Zubimendi appeared to daze adjacent his ain teammates by scoring a header from substitute Leandro Trossard's 79th-minute cross.

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The operation was a objection of Arsenal's precocious acquired spot successful depth. Last season, the nonaccomplishment of Bukayo Saka, Ødegaard, William Saliba, Kai Havertz and Gabriel Jesus...