Brilliant Bukayo Saka shows Mikel Arteta has plenty of talent at Arsenal | Paul Wilson


Until the 18-year-old forward got on the ball, it seemed Arsenal were in for a long afternoon against Liverpool at Wembley

Arsenal’s David Luiz made two careless mistakes in the opening minutes of this game and got away with both of them. First he brought down Georginio Wijnaldum of Liverpool with a flailing attempt at a rugby tackle and saw Virgil van Dijk’s neat finish to an Andy Robertson free-kick correctly ruled out for offside. A couple of minutes later he needlessly passed the ball out of play to set up the position for Neco Williams to cross from the right, James Milner heading too high in the middle when he should probably have hit the target.

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