{"id":203171,"date":"2024-07-25T15:38:52","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T15:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/07\/25\/4-talking-points-from-arsenals-first-pre-season-game-of-the-summer\/"},"modified":"2024-07-25T15:38:52","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T15:38:52","slug":"4-talking-points-from-arsenals-first-pre-season-game-of-the-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/07\/25\/4-talking-points-from-arsenals-first-pre-season-game-of-the-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"4 talking points from Arsenal\u2019s first pre-season game of the summer \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Arsenal kicked off their pre-season tour of the United States of America in the early hours of Thursday morning, facing off against Bournemouth in an all-Premier League clash in California.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Gunners\u00a0took an early lead in the game before eventually being pegged back by the Cherries via a very, very deflected goal from Antoine Semenyo.<\/p>\n

In typical friendly fashion, the game would then be decided by a penalty shootout, which was won by Arsenal 5-4 thanks to successful penalties from Martin Odegaard, Oleksandr Zinchenko, Jorginho, Gabriel Jesus and Jakub Kiwior.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s all the key talking points from the game.<\/p>\n

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Ticket sales aren\u2019t impressive<\/h2>\n
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Plenty of empty seats \/ RINGO CHIU\/GettyImages<\/p>\n

If you watched the game, we\u2019re sure you\u2019ll have noticed the rather alarming number of empty seats at the Dignity Health Sports Park.<\/p>\n

There were 14,000 empty seats to be exact in the 27,000 capacity stadium in California \u2013 meaning that more than half the tickets for the game went unsold.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t a one-off during the Premier League\u2019s pre-season tour of the USA, with a reported\u00a020,000 tickets\u00a0still left to be sold for Arsenal\u2019s heavyweight clash with Manchester United. A combination of ticket prices inflating unreasonably and the sheen of these pre-season games in the USA coming off \u2013 especially after the country just hosted the Copa America \u2013 can be seen as the two key reasons for these poor sales figures.<\/p>\n

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Dominic Solanke\u2019s performance<\/h2>\n
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Caused problems \/ Orlando Ramirez\/GettyImages<\/p>\n

Dominic Solanke has been heavily linked with a move to Arsenal\u00a0throughout the 2024 summer transfer window so, as expected, fans were keen to see how he\u2019d perform against his prospective new club.<\/p>\n

In the end, he performed pretty well.<\/p>\n

The number nine was a constant thorn in the Arsenal backline\u2019s side during his 64 minutes on the pitch, creating a few good chances for himself by besting the likes of Ayden Heaven and Jurrien Timber in duels.<\/p>\n

While he failed to convert any of his chances, there were plenty of promising signs from the Arsenal target.<\/p>\n

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Ethan Nwaneri impresses<\/h2>\n
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Talented youngster \/ Ryan Hiscott\/GettyImages<\/p>\n

There was one player that Arsenal fans were particularly excited about on X during the early hours of the morning, and that was Ethan Nwaneri.<\/p>\n

The club\u2019s youngest ever player \u2013 having made his debut as a 16-year-old in 2022 \u2013 thoroughly impressed in the pre-season opener in the USA. Nwaneri was able to create two chances for his teammates in the game, but it was his ability to drift past opposition players with ease which got Gunners fans on X particularly excited.<\/p>\n

He looks ready to make the jump to regular first-team football during the 2024\/25 season.<\/p>\n

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The absence of Emile Smith Rowe<\/h2>\n
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Smith Rowe didn\u2019t feature \/ Simone Joyner\/GettyImages<\/p>\n

Emile Smith Rowe\u2019s lack of involvement in the game against Bournemouth could perhaps signal the impending end of his long Arsenal career.<\/p>\n

The creative midfielder is reportedly set to join Fulham in a deal worth \u00a330m, with Mikel Arteta all-but confirming his departure when explaining Smith Rowe\u2019s absence from the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are things happening in the background at the moment,\u201d the boss revealed. \u201cWe decided the best thing to do was to keep him away from the game today.\u201d<\/p>\n

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