2 days ago
Arsenal opener at Man Utd 'primed for narratives'
Arsenal open their Premier League campaign away to Manchester United on Sunday and Alex Moneypenny, host of Cannon Pod, believes the "huge" season opener will set the Gunners up for the season."It's massive for Arsenal to start well," Moneypenny said on a special Gunners episode of BBC Radio 5 Live's Football Daily podcast."We spoke about Arsenal becoming more versatile and I think this is a game where we can really show it. I think it was Rob Edwards a couple of years ago who spoke about the different games Arsenal can play - and I see this as a running game."If you look at Manchester United's front three of Matheus Cunha, Bryan Mbeumo and Benjamin Sesko with their wing-backs, can we go and match them or do we go different stylistically and try to control the game."Can we go and run through them with Kai Havertz or Viktor Gyokeres?"I really don't know about United because they've caused us problems over the years. "I'm interested to see how we set up and hopefully, we will have something for them. It's really fascinating and so primed for narratives. Listen to the full episode on BBC Sounds
