Arsenal are expected to challenge for the title again this season after two second-place finishes, and they are unrecognisable from where they were three years ago. On August 13th 2021, Arsenal faced Brentford in the opening game of the Premier League season, and the home side’s first-ever game in the competition, and fell to a dismal 2-0 defeat. It was a makeshift squad, with Mikel Arteta missing a lot of players due to illness, but it was nevertheless a poor display as his side struggled to threaten going forward, and were calamitous at the back. It came after an eighth-place finish in the p…
