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Arsenal 3-0 Coventry City: Premier League – live reaction

First game of new Premier League season, 8pm kick-off Arsenal’s opportunity | Football Daily | Mail Scott Plenty of debutants in the cast tonight. Every single one of them will have been dreaming of something like this … Mikel Arteta’s turn to talk pitchside to Sky. “The players need that desire to go again … I certainly have it … we have to create an opportunity … we don’t know what other clubs are going to do … we

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The Guardian
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Premier League
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First game of new Premier League season, 8pm kick-off Arsenal’s opportunity | Football Daily | Mail Scott Plenty of debutants in the cast tonight. Every single one of them will have been dreaming of something like this … Mikel Arteta’s turn to talk pitchside to Sky. “The players need that desire to go again … I certainly have it … we have to create an opportunity … we don’t know what other clubs are going to do … we
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    First game of new Premier League season, 8pm kick-off Arsenal’s opportunity | Football Daily | Mail Scott Plenty of debutants in the cast tonight. Every single one of them will have been dreaming of something like this … Mikel Arteta’s turn to talk pitchside to Sky. “The players need that desire to go again … I certainly have it … we have to create an opportunity … we don’t know what other clubs are going to do … we

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    First game of new Premier League season, 8pm kick-off Arsenal’s opportunity | Football Daily | Mail Scott Plenty of debutants in the cast tonight. Every single one of them will have been dreaming of something like this … Mikel Arteta’s turn to talk pitchside to Sky. “The players need that desire to go again … I certainly have it … we have to create an opportunity … we don’t know what other clubs are going to do … we

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    First game of new Premier League season, 8pm kick-off Arsenal’s opportunity | Football Daily | Mail Scott Plenty of debutants in the cast tonight. Every single one of them will have been dreaming of something like this … Mikel Arteta’s turn to talk pitchside to Sky. “The players need that desire to go again … I certainly have it … we have to create an opportunity … we don’t know what other clubs are going to do … we

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    First game of new Premier League season, 8pm kick-off Arsenal’s opportunity | Football Daily | Mail Scott Plenty of debutants in the cast tonight. Every single one of them will have been dreaming of something like this … Mikel Arteta’s turn to talk pitchside to Sky. “The players need that desire to go again … I certainly have it … we have to create an opportunity … we don’t know what other clubs are going to do … we

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    First game of new Premier League season, 8pm kick-off Arsenal’s opportunity | Football Daily | Mail Scott Arsenal: Raya, White, Mosquera, Gabriel, Calafiori, Rice, Lewis-Skelly, Odegaard, Saka, Tzolis, Havertz. Coventry City: Rushworth, van Ewijk, Thomas, Amenda, Dasilva, Grimes, Onyeka, Yirenkyi, Tchaouna, Thomas-Asante, Simms. Continue reading...

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    Arsenal v Coventry City: Premier League – live

    First game of new Premier League season, 8pm kick-off Arsenal’s opportunity | Football Daily | Mail Scott The Premier League is back, and you won’t get too many people making a case for newly promoted Coventry City to get something in tonight’s opening game against champions Arsenal. But then on the first day of the 1993-94 season, Micky Quinn did this … … and there weren’t too many at Highbury expecting that either.

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