Crystal Palace vs Arsenal

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"It was very good because we start with a win and a clean sheet," Saliba, who spent the last two-and-a-half years on loan in France, said. Minutes later it was Granit Xhaka making the intervention as he got a foot in to deflect Edouard's close-range shot over the crossbar. Arsenal took their impressive preseason form into the start of the game, pressing well and dominating the early going.

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Continuing on from the above point, Arsenal were eventually forced to go long with their goal kicks, forcing the Eagles to break them down defensively with four across the back and a pair of defensive midfielders sitting just in front. With all of the Arsenal superlatives out of the way, it must be said that Crystal Palace eventually settled into the game and had ample opportunity to grab a (mostly) deserved equalizer. Again, he was part of everything, but when “everything” amounts to nothing, well… The irony of Arsenal opening the scoring, after such a period of possession play, from a cleverly designed and drilled set-piece routine lands just right. There was plenty of space down the left side of attack, where Ben White admirably filled in for Takehiro Tomiyasu. Arsenal were particularly flustered and threatened when Palace pressed the backline trying to play out of the back. The ability to simply put the ball over the line when the pretty possession isn’t paying dividends has been missing from Arsenal for a number of years.