Losing to Arsenal was not supposed to happen, not after adding some crucial players to the team this summer.
It was the first game Barcelona played in a while as a team, Arsenal had played more, their players were sharper on the ball, and overall, Barcelona did not play poorly for their first game. Whenever I watch preseason games with all the changes that the coaches make to the team, I try to judge the performance of the team with their first and second half differently. Different players played in the first Half, and in the second half. The Barcelona players from the first half were not playing so well, they were able to score the first goal from a lucky rebound, and the second from a deflection from the defensive wall of Arsenal. The players in the second half played better, they were able to close down Saka better and create some good attacks of which one ended in a goal. Barcelona team will be stronger, they can win the UCL if they can fix some little errors in the team, or have a lucky run to the finals.
The final result of the match will always be seen, but we must also remember that this is a pre-season match where the club may not be at its best, as that is not the main purpose of a pre-season match. We have to look at how they play and not the final result. There's certainly a lot to improve on when looking at how they played in this match, and for me that's normal. Arsenal played better, but that doesn't mean they played without gaps to fix. I'm not going to try to sum up the whole thing, but in this match there were fragile gaps in their defense, not just for Barcelona, but Arsenal too, even though they were better than Barcelona.
I consider this match only to be an experiment to see how new players perform with old players and also to look for reliable formations to apply to every match, so it's only natural that sometimes in friendly matches some clubs don't look too good because this match doesn't really have any meaning just for test.
I think predicting to bet on friendly matches is also very difficult when yesterday I tried to bet on Barcelona but ended up losing.
In fact, even so, there is nothing bad in Arsenal's match with Barcelona because these two clubs are still in an ordinary formation, like trying to make a perfect formation and if this were an original match from each league, it might be more different and would even appear more perfect.
Barcelona's defeat yesterday did not disappoint because I understand that their defenders are a bit worse than before because in the transfer season Barcelona are not able to get enough quality players to add to their defense