WIN PL: Champions 3 - 0 Coventry | Sky Sports | KO: 21st August 20:00 BST

[Halcyon Daze]

Strongest team possible. Annihilate these nobody’s. Set our stall out. Fat Frank in tears. No mercy.

 

[quattro]

expecting them to park the bus so I hope we score early.

 

[North5]

3-0

 

[UpTheChampionz]

2-1. Don’t like playing promoted teams game

You don’t like playing teams full stop

 

[Barry]

I'd actually have Madueke starting over Saka & Dowman for this one and I reckon that's what Arteta goes with. He looked decent against City mostly, but aside from that we should use the early part of the season to carefully manage Saka's minutes where possible.

With Dowman, he's an incredible talent, but I'm not sure that starting PL games at 16 regularly is in his long term interests or the club's. Ease him in slowly, the lifestyle and the pressure is Incredible, fans are very fickle, and his body is still developing.

Madueke's pace should be a nice foil to Tzolis on the other side and if he can't shine against Coventry... Saka or ideally Dowman to sub on later on the match for minutes

 

[Alter]

3-0 at least
Hoping for some Dowman minutes.

 

[GDeep™]

Could be 7-0

 

[Taylor Gang Gunners]

I'd LOVE a statement win here. 5-0 demolition. Put everyone on notice that they'll have to pry this title from our cold, dead hands.

Raya
White Mosquera Gabriel Calafiori
MLS Bruno Ødegaard
Madueke Havertz Tzolis

Something is telling me we're gonna see a King Kai hat trick.

 

[UpTheChampionz]

I'd LOVE a statement win here. 5-0 demolition. Put everyone on notice that they'll have to pry this title from our cold, dead hands.

Raya
White Mosquera Gabriel Calafiori
MLS Bruno Ødegaard
Madueke Havertz Tzolis

Something is telling me we're gonna see a King Kai hat trick.

All my homies love King Kai

 

[ThisFather]

4-0

 

[Arson Finger]

Our first proper home game since winning the title.

We'll be crazy.

I can't wait. This will be the first time I've seen Arsenal in person. Coming from Boston with my son for his 17th birthday. Bucket list for both of us.

 

[Barry]

I can't wait. This will be the first time I've seen Arsenal in person. Coming from Boston with my son for his 17th birthday. Bucket list for both of us.

What a treat, enjoy!

Boston always looks like an awesome city too, would love to see it one day

 

[dino bravo]

I can't wait. This will be the first time I've seen Arsenal in person. Coming from Boston with my son for his 17th birthday. Bucket list for both of us.

That's class. Enjoy it.

 

[Thrice]

For Coventry this is probably the worst possible matchup to start the season. As a promoted club in this league you want to hit the ground running.

 

[andeoch1]

For Coventry this is probably the worst possible matchup to start the season. As a promoted club in this league you want to hit the ground running.

They’ll be running alright, like a child after a ball

 

[dino bravo]

Coventry have lost once since January, including pre-season where they have had some very impressive results, not sure how they’ll approach this, but they are probably feeling quite confident and hopefully come to try and win.

We need to beat that out of them, what I would give for an early goal…

 

[Batman]

Arteta absolutely owns Lampard. I would be shocked and disappointed if this isn't a 4 goal margin.

 

[Sapient Hawk]

All my homies love King Kai

Everyone credits Toriyama (RIP) but without King Kai, there'd be no Kaio Ken or Genki Dama!!

 

[OnlyOne]

Can’t believe this is tomorrow. Be nice to not get a major injury in the first game as we have done a couple seasons in a row.

 

[Sulosky]

3-1. Coventry catch us off guard early on and we go into half-time behind. Then we make a few substitutions, Arsenal get a grip on the game and score a couple of goals in quick succession. The 3-1 goal comes in stoppage time.