A seem to be on the brand new signings and rising younger talent, there was lots to speak from Arsenal's penalty defeat to Atletico Madrid within the ICC.
Arsenal began their International Champions Cup with penalty heartbreak as exchange goalkeeper Antonio Adan kept three and scored the winner in Singapore.
Luciano Vietto opened the scoring for Atletico Madrid in opposition to the run of play – heading in a pass – after Jan Oblak had made three saves to disclaim the Gunners. Teenager Emile Smith-Rowe levelled the rankings when he cut in from the left, beat NULL defenders and curled his attempt previous Adan.
With the rankings tied at 1-1, it took penalties to split ultimate year’s Europa League semi-finalists, with Ainsley Maitland-Niles the basically Gunner to rating as Adan earned the plaudits.
Here are five issues we learned.
1 Emile Smith-Rowe appears to be impressive
Pre-season is all the time a nice opportunity for youth avid gamers to play along members of the senior staff and present off their ability.
Emile Smith-Rowe specifically inspired on this match. The 17-year-old is the youngest member of Arsenal’s squad in Singapore, but was one in all the club's finest avid gamers on the pitch. He scored a marvelous equaliser for Arsenal within the 47th minute, beating NULL Atletico defenders earlier than curling the ball into the higher corner.
Smith-Rowe will unquestionably have a destiny at Arsenal if he maintains with such performances, but Emery might ought to ship him out on mortgage this season to offer him the gambling time he wants to develop.
2 New signing alert
Several of Unai Emery’s new signings featured in Arsenal’s first critical pre-season run out.
Bernd Leno performed the primary half and regarded certain and while he did concede a goal, this resulted extra from Arsenal’s defensive failings pretty than poor goalkeeping.
Matteo Guendouzi also began and regarded very brilliant within the primary half, greatly contributing to Arsenal’s attacking moves. However, he wasn’t as stable defensively, and Atletico’s purpose was partly his fault when he switched off to permit Luciano Vietto get clear of him and rating a header.
Sokratis got here on for the ultimate 30 minutes and regarded a commanding presence on the pitch.
3 Penalty shoot-out woe
With the recreation ending at 1-1 after 90 minutes, penalties awaited. Arsenal obviously haven’t been practising shoot-outs however, simply via the fact they have been tremendous poor.
Henrikh Mkhitaryan didn't get his near sufficient to the corner, permitting Adan to save. Joe Willock and Eddie Nketiah’s pictures have been also simply guessed, and Adan back kept both. Only Maitland-Niles scored with a Panenka down the middle.
Whilst this penalty shoot-out was insignificant, Arsenal followers will desire their staff don’t repeat the identical performance when it truly matters.
4 A risk for Lucas Perez?
Striker Lucas Perez struggled for gambling time below Arsene Wenger and has basically made eleven appearances for the Gunners since becoming a member of in 2016.
There have been experiences that the courting among the participant and Arsenal’s vintage supervisor was fractious, but Emery appears to desire to contain Perez in his plans.
Recent photos of Perez in pre-season has triggered Arsenal followers to urge Emery to offer the striker a chance, and he did simply that, gambling him within the ultimate 30 minutes of the game.
He was many times useless throughout his time on the pitch, but a nice performance in a destiny pre-season recreation might see him overtake Danny Welbeck within the Arsenal pecking order.
5 Support for Mesut Ozil
It has been a tumultuous time these days for Mesut Ozil. After receiving extreme feedback for Germany’s early World Cup exit, he decided to cease global soccer on the grounds that he felt he encountered racism and disrespect when gambling for the nationwide team.
This determination was acquired badly in a few quarters of German football, but these within the New Singapore National Stadium made their aid for Ozil known.
He was now not named within the staff for the recreation simply via the fact of nonetheless recovering from the World Cup, but he was pitch side. At one level the enormous display monitor confirmed the midfielder, and he acquired one in all the largest cheers of the game.
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