Quote from: Jaycoinz on Today at 08:19:54 PM

Quote from: rendravolt on Today at 07:30:12 PM

It still feels like a dream to see Arsenal successfully slaughter Leverkusen with a landslide score and is this really the Arsenal we know? Grin

Even though this is only a pre-season match, the Gunners are so serious about being able to beat Leverkusen and I think this could be a good record after successfully beating last season's Bundesliga champions. Mikel Arteta must also be very happy with his team's performance in this match and it looks like he's fielding all of his main squad so they can win.

On the other hand, maybe Xabi Alonso freed his players here and didn't burden them all too much to achieve maximum results. Leverkusen certainly just wants their players to stay fit before the season starts and I think a defeat like this feels quite reasonable. It looks like Xabi Alonso also only fielded his reserve players and it's a stark contrast to what Arsenal did. In addition, Granit Xhaka was finally able to reunite against his former team and this was a fun match for him.

Well like I always say it's the friendly games and i wouldn't ever take these games that serious because the whole league itself hasn't kicked off and this lose can't be used to determine the way they will play because I can see even from the line up that most of the players of this Bayer Leverkusen wasn't actually featured and that's because maybe the Manager might be avoiding unnecessary injuries to his players.

Yeah friendly games are not to be taken seriously but there is always a good feeling when teams takes it seriously and win most of their pre season games because it is also a way of preparing themselves ahead of the new seasons so sometimes their performance at pre season games can reflect in their normal league matches so whether Bayern Leverkusen played their best squad or not, it doesn't change the fact that Arsenal won them in a friendly match and looking at Arsenal squad that featured in this pre season match, most of their key players were available for this friendly match hence their ability to win Bayern Leverkusen all the way from the first half so friendly or no friendly game, it was a good result from Arsenal.

You need to understand that whether players that featured in a pre season match or not, every player is cautious of not getting injured before the league matches starts so is literally every team that doesn't play all their key players in a friendly match as some of the players are reserved for the new season games.