5 Things We Learned From Arsenal Friendly V's Charlton
Arsenal faced Charlton Athletic in a friendly match on Saturday, and we can learn a lot even from the limited public information on the match. After we cover the obvious details of the match like the goals and who still isn’t fit , there’s still more we can glean from the pictures, videos and highlights Arsenal put up. Let’s have a look at five things we noticed: 1. Tierney looks like the first-choice left-back LONDON, ENGLAND: Kieran Tierney Mikel Arteta played two different sides in the two halves against Charlton. The first-half looked a lot like the first-choice team, with Leno in goal, Bellerin and Luiz in defence, Özil, Aubameyang and Lacazette in forward areas, and so on. What’s interesting is that Tierney also made the team. The Scottish international hasn’t played under Arteta so far, so we had no way of measuring whether he’d usurp Sead Kolasinac and Bukayo Saka. The early signs look positive ...