Arsenal‘s victory over Brighton felt like a match that had been performed a number of occasions already this season.

The Gunners dominated play, missed possibilities and needed to take care of accidents to key gamers – one thing that has examined their squad for the reason that opening match of the marketing campaign, with ahead Kai Havertz lacking with a knee damage since then.

On Saturday, Arsenal have been with out the injured Jurrien Timber and misplaced Riccardo Calafiori within the warm-up, which means left-back Myles Lewis-Skelly stepped into the beginning line-up at brief discover.

There was some excellent news, with centre-back Gabriel returning as a second-half substitute following his damage lay-off.

Arteta stated his facet have been “surviving” the challenges thrown at them for six months and the accidents to key gamers are “uniting” the squad.

“In the meanwhile we survived six months, so let’s have a look at, there’s one other 5 and a half to go, so hopefully issues will get higher,” he stated.

“The excellent news as nicely, we have got Gabi [Gabriel] sooner than anticipated, which is nice.”

That is the second week in a row the place Manchester Metropolis have performed earlier than Arsenal and gone high of the Premier League, with the Gunners having to reply.

However Arteta says his squad are relishing the problem they face as they attempt to win the Premier League for the primary time since 2004.

“We will solely management what we do. We’re doing a number of good issues that I feel that we have now to enhance as nicely,” he stated, including that taking part in “each three days goes to be a problem and we’re up for it”.