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<\/p>\nArsenal\u2019s 1-0 victory over Manchester United on Sunday was far from a masterful performance against the better side but manager Mikel Arteta was delighted to escape from Old Trafford with all three points in their Premier League season-opener.<\/p>\n
Arsenal defender Riccardo Calafiori took advantage of a weak challenge from Turkish goalkeeper Altay Bayindir to head home an early corner and then the London side survived an onslaught of United attacks as they dug in to secure the win.<\/p>\n
\u201cA big, big result coming into the first game of the season against [United] at Old Trafford,\u201d Arteta said after facing a side fielding new signings Matheus Cunha and Bryan Mbeumo.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you feel that they are building something special and momentum with the new signings, and they want to kick off the season in a good way, and you are able to come away with the win, I\u2019m very happy I\u2019m part of the team.\u201d<\/p>\n
Arteta said his side, which spent nearly 200 million pounds (400 million AUD) in the close season after three consecutive second-place finishes, did a couple of things well on Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne, to take the set-piece and then react to especially mistakes,\u201d he said. \u201cSome of them are necessary, some of them unusual. But the way every single player reacted to that gives us the opportunity to win the game. If not, it\u2019s impossible. And that\u2019s about how we compete and how much we want to take it.\u201d<\/p>\n
While United were the better team, Arteta said Arsenal winning while not at their best was a reason for confidence.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you\u2019re not at your standards in certain aspects, which today we weren\u2019t, being fair, we can still come away and find a way to win the game,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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Arsenal\u2019s Gabriel Magalhaes celebrates his teams 1-0 victory over Manchester United.Credit: AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arsenal\u2019s 1-0 victory over Manchester United on Sunday was far from a masterful performance against the better side…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-76484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}