Join John Brewin for minute-by-minute updates as Mikel Arteta’s side open their campaign in Italy
The team celebrates with Raya, who has been on real form this season. Buying him instead of Aaron Ramsdale was controversial but it’s been effective. Partey owes the goalie one there.
It worked. Retegui does a stutter step, his shot is saved but the ball bounced up to nod in. Amazing reflexes from Raya to claw it away.Partey looked guilty as hell, Ederson was clipped as well as pulled back. The decision stands, after a long wait. Raya has time to chat to the bench ahead of Retegui’s penalty.Ederson and Havertz collide in midfield. But Ederson gets back up, beats Partey down the left, and goes over in the box. Did the offence take place in the box…VAR will decide….
An absorbing cont….no, sadly not. It’s been low-level entertainment. Both teams defending well and beyond a couple of Lookman flashes not much excitement. Is it like this because there’s another seven matches of this new-fangled group stage to come? We can only speculate.Mik Arteta is angry as his team again lose the ball. His team have defended well but it’s hard not to yearn for the free-spirited disco dancers of two years ago.
Kieran Tierney, Mikel Merino, Oleksandr Zinchenko and Takehiro Tomiyasu all out, with Martin Odegaard on that list for the foreseeable, it seems. Declan Rice and Riccardo Calafiori are ready. Gabriel Jesus to return? Bukayo Saka to be rested? It’s still a strong hand Mikel Arteta has to play. Ademola Lookman, Wandsworth’s finest, the hero of Lansdowne Road, is expected to start amid a bit of an injury crisis for Gasperini. Defence is robbed Ben Godfrey, once of Everton, young prospect Giorgio Scalvini, and club captain Rafael Toloi are all out and so is West Ham “legend” Gianluca Scamacca.were glorious winners of the Europa League, boxing off Bayer Leverkusen in Dublin. Gian Piero Gasperini is one of the wiliest foxes ever to do it. And he’s back for more.
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