🎯 The main takeaway: Starting things off with a bang
On paper Arsenal were handed what should have been an easy fixture; a home match against a newly promoted team. These things just sometimes have a way of backfiring as we saw just a few years ago when Arsenal were surprised against Brentford.
What we saw was that this is a different Arsenal, one that looks freer and like they are back to being able to play without the weight of the world on their shoulders. They come in with the swagger of being the CHAMPIONS and played like it.
From the opening kickoff through to the third goal Arsenal dominated the match, generating chances and keeping Coventry from getting a sniff of goal.
Arsenal opened the scoring early, added a second and cruised into halftime on top. Things were going so well for Arsenal that even a mishit shot got Arsenal exactly what they needed to score a third goal.
The rest of the game was played at a much lower intensity and it turned into a glorified training session.
This also goes and puts a nice marker down for the rest of the League. Arsenal are here to ATTACK the title.
📈 The positives:
Arsenal were able to start Kai Havertz, Bukayo Saka, and Martin Ødegaard together in the Premier League for just the second time since Christmas Eve 2024. This was just the 11th time in the league that they have been able to start together since the start of 2024-25 season. That is crazy and goes a long way to explaining some of the attacking challenges Arsenal have had over that time. In this game each of them actually got on to the scoresheet as well. What a start to the season.
