Premier League season opener: Arsenal overwhelmed by newcomer Brentford 2-0

Brentford began its first topflight marketing campaign since 1947 by beautiful Arsenal 2-0 Friday within the opening recreation of the Premier League season.
Sergi Canos put Brentford forward within the twenty second minute and Christian Noergaard headed within the second within the 73rd after Arsenal didn’t cope with an extended throw-in, handing the promoted membership an ideal begin to life within the Premier League in entrance of almost 16,500 followers on the Community Stadium.

Those followers lastly had an opportunity to have a good time contained in the stadium, which was opened final yr amid the lockdown when no supporters had been allowed into video games.
They had waited even longer for a second like this. Brentford’s final recreation in England’s prime division was a 1-0 loss to Arsenal, in May 1947. Now the staff is prime of the league for not less than a night, forward of the remainder of the weekend’s video games.
“Nobody who was here will ever forget that. And I’m proud to be a part of that,” Brentford supervisor Thomas Frank mentioned. “I have such belief in this group of players, so even though I knew we were going to face Arsenal, a massive club with unbelievable players, I had a feeling I would be disappointed if we didn’t beat them.”
For Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal, it was one other disappointing efficiency and a worrying begin. The staff solely completed eighth final season and confirmed little signal of getting sorted out its earlier issues. With strikers Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Alexandre Lacazette each lacking _ Arteta mentioned they had been feeling “unwell” _ Arsenal once more struggled to create any form of clear scoring possibilities regardless of dominating possession for stretches of the sport.
And their defensive shortcomings confirmed once more.
Brentford’s opener got here after right-back Calum Chambers hacked the ball off the byline, just for it to return again through Ethan Pinnock to Canos, who minimize contained in the defender and buried a low shot inside Bernd Leno’s close to publish.
For the second purpose, Arsenal’s defenders allowed an extended throw from Mads Bech Sorensen to bounce within the six-yard field and Norgaard arrived on the far publish to move into an empty web.
Arsenal’s academy striker Folarin Balogun was handed his first Premier League begin however was taken off earlier than the hour mark. He was changed by Bukayo Saka, who was given a standing ovation from the Brentford followers after being subjected to racist abuse following his penalty miss for England within the European Championship last loss to Italy.
“I don’t want to use excuses. We had a team out there good enough to achieve a different result,” Arteta mentioned. “We know we have to improve.”