Arsenal vs Bayer Leverkusen 4-1 Highlights | Friendly Match

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Arsenal vs Bayer Leverkusen’s Pre Season Friendly match started the with full attacking forces.

Arsenal’s pre-season preparations continued this evening with impressive 4-1 win over German champions Bayer Leverkusen.

Mikel Arteta’s team selection saw a very familiar looking team, with new signing Riccardo Calafiori absent from the squad as he builds up his pre-season fitness levels, alongside the injured Jurrien Timber and Takehiro Tomiyasu.

There was some summer rust from both sides in the opening stages, but in the 8th minute Arsenal took the lead after a nice move down the left hand side saw Kai Havertz find space. His cut back was dummied by Martin Odegaard, allowing Oleksandr Zinchenko to fire a left-footed shot into the bottom corner. 1-0.

Within a minute the lead was doubled. Leandro Trossard intercepted a pass from the Leverkusen keeper, the ball made its way through Odegaard and Havertz with a clever flick, before the Belgian sent the defender one way with a turn and fired into the net for 2-0.

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The Gunners looked lively, the German champions not so much, and Arteta’s side had a lot of joy down our left-hand side with Trossard finding space time and again. The Belgian almost got his second of the game in the 25th minute, firing a shot from distance which the keeper pushed around the post, after which a Zinchenko header caused mild alarm in the opposition box.

There was little threat from Xabi Alonso’s side, and they fell further behind in the 38th minute. Gabriel Jesus picked the ball up around the halfway line, drove down the left before cutting inside and from outside the D he fired in a shot which the keeper probably should have done better with. Nevertheless, the Brazilian has looked very sharp in pre-season so far, and this goal will be a nice confidence boost for him. 3-0.

A couple of blocked shots were all that Leverkusen could muster in the first 45 minutes, with one on target right at the death, but it was a meek effort which didn’t trouble David Raya.

Mikel Arteta made four changes at the break, sending on Bukayo Saka, Myles Lewis-Skelly, Jakub Kiwior and Declan Rice for Zinchenko, Vieira, Jesus, and Saliba. The visitors had the first effort of the first half through former Arsenal Academy player Nathan Tella, but again it caused Raya little danger.

Leverkusen’s best chance of the game came in the 60th minute, again for Tella, but his first time shot fizzed wide. That prompted Alonso into a half dozen changes that we can’t be bothered to be specific about because frankly who cares? At the same time, Jorginho and Martin Odegaard were replaced by Ethan Nwaneri and Thomas Partey.

The 17 year old was immediately impactful, driving forward to play the ball outside to Saka, who then roasted the full-back to drill a ball into the danger zone. A defender got there first but could only direct the ball to Havertz who made no mistake from close range. 4-0.

Rice had a pop from distance but put it wide, before Arteta made more changes with Gabriel, White and Havertz being replaced by Ayden Heaven, Josh Nichols, and Eddie Nketiah.

The crowd entertained themselves with a Mexican wave, and with all the changes things got a little disjointed. Leverkusen got one back in the 75th minute through Adam Hlozek – his dinked finish going beyond Raya after he’d run off the back of Kiwior. 4-1.

Granit Xhaka came off in the 80th minute and had a hug with his former boss, Gabriel Martinelli came on for Trossard, and the more experienced Leverkusen side were probably on top in the final stages – although the Gunners did have half-chances to make something happen.

In the end though, a positive night, and plenty for Mikel Arteta to be pleased about ahead of Sunday’s friendly with Lyon.

Goals: O. Zinchenko 8′, L. Trossard 9′, G. Jesus 38′, K. Havertz 65′, A.Hložek 76′

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4 Arsenal	TEAM STATS	1  Leverkusen
9	Shots	7
6	Shots on target	2
44%	Possession	56%
421	Passes	539
84%	Pass accuracy	88%
5	Fouls	8
0	Yellow cards	1
0	Red cards	0
0	Offsides	1
4	Corners	2