{"id":811682,"date":"2026-08-13T00:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T00:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/811682\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T00:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T00:28:09","slug":"arsenal-1-1-como-how-did-bruno-guimaraes-look-on-arsenal-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/811682\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal 1-1 Como: How did Bruno Guimaraes look on Arsenal debut?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bruno Guimaraes put in an assured performance as he made his Arsenal<\/a> debut in a 1-1 friendly draw with Como at Emirates stadium.<\/p>\n

The \u00a375m signing from Newcastle United<\/a> was officially announced on Saturday, then introduced to the club’s supporters before their friendly with Dortmund on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Fans arrived at Emirates on Wednesday evening in anticipation of seeing the Brazilian international in action, but had to wait until half-time.<\/p>\n

Myles Lewis-Skelly<\/a>, whose future has been much debated in the past couple of days following reported interest from rivals Chelsea<\/a> and Manchester United<\/a>, opened the scoring in the first half.<\/p>\n

But the Gunners were then pegged back by an excellent strike from Martin Baturina before Guimaraes was introduced.<\/p>\n

Chants of “Bruno” rang out around the ground as the new number 39 stepped on to the pitch, followed by cheers as he had his first touch of the ball. <\/p>\n

Guimaraes – known for his combative, all-action style – put in a recovery tackle to stop a Como counter-attack before passing the ball to David Raya, with the passage of play cheered like a goal. <\/p>\n

There were early signs of a partnership between Guimaraes and Arsenal<\/a> captain Martin Odegaard, too.<\/p>\n

Mikel Arteta had named an experimental side for this game, with five academy graduates in the starting XI.<\/p>\n

But as the game hit the hour mark, Arteta brought on what could be considered his strongest available side, with thoughts of the Community Shield against Manchester City<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Guimaraes had been playing alongside Lewis-Skelly but once he was withdrawn, as Mikel Merino and Odegaard were introduced from the substitutes bench, the new signing dropped to be the deepest-lying player in the Arsenal<\/a> midfield.<\/p>\n

The match drifted as the changes and a second-half drinks break affected the flow of the game, but Kai Havertz, Noni Madueke and Cristhian Mosquera all had efforts before the end of the match. <\/p>\n

Guimaraes tried a chipped pass behind the Como defence, which Havertz finished, but the offside flag was up to rule the strike out. <\/p>\n

The pass over the defence is something the midfielder tried a couple of times and will give supporters encouragement he can help the Gunners find their attacking flow as the season gets under way. <\/p>\n

This is not a performance that will define Guimaraes’ time in north London, but the fact he settled in so seamlessly is exactly why Arsenal<\/a> bought him for the large fee.<\/p>\n

After the match followed a pre-agreed penalty shootout and Guimaraes boldly scored his spot-kick, which will give him a confidence boost before the first competitive match of Arsenal<\/a>‘s season on Sunday. <\/p>\n

Arteta was asked in his post-match news conference if the midfielder would be ready to start against Manchester City<\/a>. <\/p>\n

“Let’s see. He only had three training sessions. But he looked good,” he said, <\/p>\n

“He was really pushing to play some minutes today. I think he wanted to get his debut and the feeling of playing in front of our fans immediately. <\/p>\n

“You sensed immediately a really strong connection and a player that is going to make us better without a doubt.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bruno Guimaraes put in an assured performance as he made his Arsenal debut in a 1-1 friendly draw…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":811683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-811682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}