As the most eye-catching team in the new season of the Premier League, Arsenal has been crowding the champion favorite Blues City behind them, ranking first in the table, and beating the Blues in the last round showed a championship temperament, but the lack of depth in the squad to play on multiple fronts is a reality that the Gunners must recognize, Arsenal welcomed the Europa League game in midweek this week, they will host Brighton, and after this game, the Gunners only have two days off to usher in the Premier League game against Wolves. This is why many Gunners fans hope that Mikel Arteta can give up sesame to keep watermelon and focus more on the Premier League! Sure enough, in this game, Arteta rotated most of the main players, but Nketiah still helped the Gunners open the score, but the weak back line allowed Brighton to score three goals in a row, and finally eliminated Arsenal with a score of 3-1, and many Gunners fans said that they lost beautifully!
Although Arsenal invested heavily in upgrading the squad in the off-season, but with the thickness of their current squad, they do not support multi-line operations at all, for the Gunners, the most important goal this season is to go all out to attack the Premier League title, obviously manager Mikel Arteta is also very aware of his shortcomings, did not become blindly confident because of the current high position at the top of the Premier League table, in this game against Brighton, the manager also rotated many core players to prepare for the final game of the year.
Brighton, as the dark horse team in the Premier League this season, also proved their quality in this game against Arsenal, although they only created 13 chances with superior possession, far less than Arsenal's 24 shots, but Brighton's attacking efficiency is higher, which is why they were able to reverse the victory.
Arteta in the midfield sent Lokonga who is very unpopular with Gunners fans, usually want to win the game, as long as you see Lokonga appear, the first reaction of Arsenal fans is a headache, but in this game to see Lokonga, every Arsenal fan is secretly happy to be stable, the facts also prove this, the Arsenal midfield with Lokonga sitting can be said to be full of holes, let the opponent hit one accurate.
Although in the 19th minute after the start of the game, Nelson assisted Nketiah to break the deadlock to take a 1-0 lead, but then the game entered the rhythm of Brighton, in the 26th minute Arsenal sent a penalty, the old owner of Welbeck equalized the score, in the 57th minute Japanese player Mikasa Kaoru entered the box on the left, received a pass from his teammate and pushed into the far corner to help Brighton reverse the score, and in the 70th minute Arsenal's left side was penetrated again, Lamptai scored from a small angle after entering the box, and the final score was fixed at 3-1!
After losing this game, Arsenal was out of the English League Cup early, which is definitely a good thing for the Gunners in the long run, because there is a World Cup this year, the core players of the major giants have a very heavy game task, so Arsenal gave up these chicken rib events early, which can maximize the rest time for the core players in the team, which is conducive to them to attack the league title!