Arsenal beat Leicester City 2-0 in the league and moved up to sixth place, sharing points with fifth-placed Manchester United. And this round of the league manchester united lost to Manchester City, just to give Arsenal the opportunity to re-enter the European zone, the team today at home against the newly coached Watford, the opponent's performance has improved significantly since Claudio Ranieri took office, not a fish belly team, a powerful battle. In the last five meetings between the two teams, Arsenal have won four and drawn a record of no defeat, and this is the 100th match since Mikel Arteta has taken charge of Arsenal.
Mikel Arteta still had a 4-2-3-1 formation this season, with the current line-up roughly the same as in the previous league, with only Ainslie Maitland-Niles replacing the absent Thomas Parte and Lokunga in the midfield. The goalkeeper was still headed by the brave Ramsdale, the four-man defense consisted of Kenyo Fuan, Ben White, Gabriel and Nuno Tavares, Kieran Tierney was temporarily substituted, and Emil Smith-Rovey, Alexander Lacazette and Bukayo Bukayo Saca were supporting Aubameyang on the front line.
Early in the tournament, Arsenal had most of the possession but failed to organise too many threatening shots. In the 7 minutes of the match, Arsenal had Bukayo Saka break the goal, but unfortunately the offside was overturned first, and then the game was glued until 36 minutes, when Alexander Lacazette won the penalty, but Aubameyang's main shot was saved by the opposing goalkeeper, failing to open the record first, and the first half could only be flattened into the dressing room. After the change of sides, Arsenal still controlled the rhythm of the game, and finally scored through the opponent's goal in the 56th minute. At that time, Ben White successfully intercepted in the front, pushed forward with his own strength, although intercepted by the opponent, but the ball fell to the feet of Emile Smith-Rovey, shot at the top of the box, successfully broke the deadlock, and scored two consecutive games. After that, Watford actively counterattacked, but failed to win, Arsenal had a more blow-up, failed to open the score, and finally Arsenal won 1-0 at home with a goal from Emile Smith-Rowe, successfully seizing the united loss and occupying the fifth place in the league table, with only six points away from Chelsea at the top of the table.
Anslie Maitland-Niles, who replaced Thomas Parte in this battle, has an excellent performance, although his strength and role are obviously different from Thomas Partey, he is definitely capable of entering the team's bench list, defending at all costs, and achieving 5 interceptions in the whole game, second only to Fuan Jianyang. Ben White, who joined this season, played this season's masterpiece, played the perfect role of the attack center-back this season, became the team's most unexpected attack point, and became more and more tacit with Gabriel on the defensive end, making this game a clean sheet. It is worth mentioning that Mikel Arteta's first 100 games are 54 wins, 20 draws, 26 losses, second only to George Graham (56 wins), surprisingly more than Wenger, have we been wrong before?