So the premier league took off today with liverpool vs stoke being the seasons opener fixture and it was a thrilling encounter which showed the brilliance of the two opposing teams goal keepers, all in all it was a deserved win for liverpool who i taught earned the 3 points, however on this post i will mostly be talking on arsenal and their opening day match. The match was against aston villa and it took place at arsenal home soil, in the emirates. Arsenal opened the scoring charts in less than 10 minutes with a good goal from giroud, however, villa did not lose thier ground and due to the individual brilliance Gabriel Agbonlahor got a penalty awarded from a rash challenge on him by Wojciech Szczęsny and though benteke the spot kick taker failed to capitalize at first he made up for his errors and headed it into the net on the rebound, then yet another reckless challenge from Koscielny brought agbonlahor down in the penalty box and this time benteke didnt fail as he slotted the ball in the back of the next, giving villa the lead, and yet another challenge from koscielny was the straw that broke the camel back, and that camel was none other than referee A. Taylor who drew out his red card and gave koscielny his marching orders off the field. Now arsenal were a goal down and a man down too the least they could do was to try and look for an equalizer to salvage a point at-least, but this never happened as minutes later luna finished off szczesny and gave villa a 3-1 cushion lead, which ended arsenal hopes of getting any meaningful result from the game. This is arsenal 9th seasons since they won a trophy and the supporters and the pubic are growing tired with the team and the manager wenger who has claimed that arsenal are not scared to spend big and have such money to do so, but has not made any top signing, with their latest recent target ex bayern munich man luis gustavo snubbing them and choosing to play for wolfsburg and with liverpool insistence that suarez is not for sale and with the same thing being said about wayne rooney it seems wenger has a limited group of players with top quality to choose from, this arsenal squad looks like they might have a problem merely getting thier "fourth place ucl position" yet alone compete for the epl title but however its only the first date and the tranfer window does not end until September so lets wait and see what the window has to offer.
