Arsenal
Pre-season
Arsenal had some average teams for their opponents in the first season with their new manager and ex-player Dennis Bergkamp, but the pre-season matches count for nothing as these matches are just for bringing the fitness, confidence up and to try new things with the team.
With this sort of remarkable skill, Dennis Bergkamp will try put his old playing style on the pitch.
Leopoldsburg V Arsenal
The beginning of Dennis Bergkamp's reign as Arsenal's manager
4 min: Goal Bendtner Headed the ball into the path of Eduardo and the rest was to easy for him.9 min: Goal Across from Hleb left Bendtner to put the ball past the goalkeeper.12 min: Goal Sagna Planted the ball on top of Bendtners head 0-3 Arsenal.16 min: Goal A cross from Hleb left a sliding Van Persie to score a sensational goal.16 min: Goal A corner from Hleb beating the defence leaving Bendtner to score with his head the first Hat-rick under Dennis Bergkamp.43 min: Goal Robin Van Persie released Eduardo with a pin point perfect through left Eduardo free to score a goal.45 min: Goal Eduardo and Hleb exchange passes leaving Eduardo to score the second Hat-trick of game and of Dennis Bergkamps Reign.68 min: Goal Walcott with a through ball reaching Adebayor who made it 0-7.74 min: Goal A long ball from Flamini was perfectly placed for Walcott who hit the ball on the volley and scoring a brilliant goal.77 min: Goal A corner from Quaresma land in the perfect place for Adebayor to slot home his second.90 min: Goal A pass from Flamini to walcott left him on the edge of the area and curled the ball into the top right corner.
Westerlo V Arsenal
5 min: Goal Sagna with the cross left Bendtner with a free header and he scores14 min: Goal Clichy with the cross Van Persie with the header past the on rusahing goalkeeper16 min: Goal A scramble in the box with Van der Vaart winning the ball and slotting past the goalkeeper19 min: injury A bone crushing challenge coming in from Fabregas leaving zeielenke on the floor with be insteadly replaced33 min: Goal Quaresma laid off a pass to Van der Vaart to smash in a goal.63 min: Goal A cross from Rosicky was perfect as Adebayor out jumped his marker79 min: Goal A free kick from jaja beat all the defence leaving Van den Eede to pull one back.
Beveren V Arsenal
5 min: Goal A header forward from Tymoschuk left Adebayor one-on-one with the keeper and there it is 0-1 to Arsenal.16 min: Goal A long free kick from Clichy land on the floor after a superb first touch from Adebayor brought the down the ball and then struck and fierce shot into the top left corner.28 min: Goal A deflected cross fell to Eduardo who rolled the ball past the keeper.16 min: injury After Senderos knocked Martens to the fall he went off with a serious wrist injury.
BEC V Arsenal
13 min: Goal Eduardo released Fabregas who broke behind the defence and blasted past the BEC's goalkeeper.15 min: Goal A corner from Di Natale gave Eduardo enough time to bring the ball down and the place the ball past soonki.28 min: Goal A cross from Di Natale planting the ball on Eduardo's head which looped over the goalkeeper and went in.47 min: Goal A Corner from Robin Van Persie went to the back post and a header from Bendtner putting the ball in the top corner.56 min: Goal Bendtner headed down a cross into the path on Robin Van Persie who pull an amazing shoot into the bottom right corner.66 min: Goal Eboué whipped in a low cross, Bendtner was sliding across the ground to connect to the ball and only just getting enough on the ball to put it past the goalkeeper.
Bristol City V Arsenal
53 min: Goal A deflected cross fell into the path of Adebayor on the edge of the eighteen yard box, Adebayor curled the ball into the top left corner.55 min: Goal Adebayor executed a through ball to Eduardo who rounded the goalkeeper and then slotted the ball home.64 min: Goal Adebayor headed down to the feet of Eduardo who then scored a simple goal.80 min: Goal With a scramble in the box Adebayor gets the ball and passes the ball to captain for the game Fabregas who tapped the ball into the net.
Sky sports managed to get a quick word with the new Arsenal manager Dennis Bergkamp. This is what he had to say.
quoteThis has been a good pre-season for the club i have made the signings of Quaresma, Tymoschuk, Sakho, Di Natale, Kompany and Van den Vaart to strengthen the team and to add competition across the midfield but of course with the signings i had to sell a few players these are Rosicky and Hleb going to Real Madrid and Juventus respectively.
Edit: Aug 13, 08