Afrigather Arsenal Soccer Membership and Crystal Palace on Friday night time kicked off the brand new Premier League marketing campaign.
The PUNCH had earlier reported that the 2022/23 Premier League actions resume at present with Gunners travelling to Selhurst Park to tackle Palace in a London derby in their opening game.
For the third season in a row, Arsenal will start their new marketing campaign with a London derby; the Gunners eased to a 3-0 success at Fulham behind closed doorways in 2020, however Brentford ran out convincing 2-0 winners over Arteta’s facet of their first-ever Premier League fixture final time period.
Patrick Vieira’s facet thumped the Gunners 3-0 on this fixture just a few months in the past, however Mikel Arteta has labored to plug the gaps in his Gunners XI throughout a productive summer season.
Taking 4 factors from a attainable six in opposition to his former membership final season, Patrick Vieira slammed the Emirates turf in frustration when his facet gave away two factors in a 2-2 draw with Arsenal earlier than witnessing his facet outclassing the Gunners in April.
By main the Eagles to a Twelfth-placed end final season and reaching the FA Cup semi-finals, former Invincibles captain Vieira earned a supervisor of the season nomination, and optimism is excessive round Selhurst Park beneath the Frenchman.
In the meantime, Arsenal supervisor, Mikel Arteta, has expressed optimism that Gabriel Jesus’ expertise of usually profitable trophies at Manchester Metropolis will rub off on his new teammates.
Jesus makes his aggressive debut for the Gunners at Crystal Palace on Friday night time after a summer season transfer from Metropolis. The striker gained 4 Premier League titles amongst eight main trophies.
The Brazilian ahead joined the Gunners for extra recreation time as he goals to make the World Cup in Qatar later this 12 months.
He has whetted Arsenal followers’ urge for food by scoring seven instances in pre-season.
“If you deliver prime gamers from prime golf equipment and so they’ve been extraordinarily profitable through the years, there’s expectation,” mentioned Arteta at his pre-match press convention on Friday.
“The function that Gabi has right here goes to be very totally different to the function that Gabi had in his earlier membership.
“He’s an amazing expertise with a mentality that’s so contagious and he’s going to present us quite a bit, nevertheless it’s a workforce on the finish of the day.”
Arteta has additionally recruited Oleksandr Zinchenko from Metropolis, whereas the additions of Fabio Vieira, Marquinhos, Matt Turner and the return of William Saliba from a mortgage spell at Marseille have bulked up the Arsenal squad.
Expectations of ending within the Premier League prime 4 for the primary time in seven years have been lifted by thrashings of Chelsea and Sevilla in pre-season.
However Arteta is aware of these outcomes will depend for little if his facet don’t make a constructive begin at Selhurst Park, the place they misplaced 3-0 final season.
“We’re all enthusiastic. We had the pre-season we wished, it was nicely organised, we had good outcomes, good preparation and good performances,” added the Spaniard.
“However now the ball begins to roll tomorrow night in a very totally different context and in opposition to a Premier League workforce and we all know what to anticipate there.”
