Arsenal sun bude sabon kakar wasanninsu da nasara mai iko 3-0 akan Manchester City a Community Shield da aka buga a Cardiff, tare da tayar da tambayoyi nan take game da girman tazara tsakanin manyan ƙungiyoyi biyu na Premier League.
Riccardo Calafiori ya buɗe ƙofar bayan daƙiƙa 23 kawai, sannan Kai Havertz ya ninka raga a minti na 23, kafin Martin Odegaard ya kara ta uku bayan mintuna uku na rabin wasan na biyu. Wasan Arsenal ya kasance cikakke har manaja Mikel Arteta ya ce yana "Dan mamakin" yadda ƙungiyarsa ta yi wasa.
Sabon manajan City, Enzo Maresca — wanda ya maye gurbin Pep Guardiola a lokacin rani — ya yi ƙanƙanta da muhimmancin sakamako, yana cewa: "Wannan shan kashi yana ciwo, amma farkon tafiya ne kawai."
Tazarar ta bayyana a cikin alkaluma
Alkaluma sun tabbatar da yadda Arsenal suka mamaye wasan. Gunners sun samu expected goals (xG) 2.19 idan aka kwatanta da 0.77 na City — kusan sau uku fiye. Abin lura shi ne cewa babu daya daga cikin xG na Arsenal da ya samo asali daga harbe-harbe na tsaye.
Tsohon mai tsaron gida na Arsenal Martin Keown ya shaida wa TNT Sports: "Tazarar ta yi babba sosai. Arsenal sun saki kansu gaba daya, alhali Manchester City sun kasance ba su da rai. Arsenal sun aika da saƙo mai karfi. Mafi girman matsalar Arteta ita ce wa zai zaba — Manchester City kuma suna da matsaloli mafi yawa."
Tsohon dan wasan Ally McCoist ya ce Manchester City sun samu "babban darasi", tare da gane cewa har yanzu rana ta farko ce na kakar wasa.
"Mun buga wasan ƙwallon ƙafa mai kyau. Kyakkyawar wasa kuma hanya mai kyau ta fara kakar wasa," in ji shugaban Arsenal Odegaard ga TNT Sports. "Mun nuna matakinmu yau. Mun shirya. Muna da nasaba kuma muna son yin haka sake."
Shin Arsenal suna gaba a window na canja wuri?
A wajen filin wasa, Arsenal kuma sun bayyana suna gaba. Sun sanya hannu akan Bruno Guimaraes da Christos Tzolis, sun kuma kammala kwantiragin dindindin na Piero Hincapie, tare da siyar da 'yan wasan da ba su da muhimmanci kamar Leandro Trossard, Jakub Kiwior, da Christian Norgaard.
Guimaraes, tsohon shugaban Newcastle, ya nuna kwanciyar hankali a matsayin dan tsakiyar wasan a Cardiff, alhali Tzolis ya yi fice da taimakawa sau biyu. Arteta kuma ya iya kiran Bukayo Saka, Declan Rice, da Viktor Gyokeres daga benci, yana nuna zurfi mai ban sha'awa na tawaga.
City a nasa bangaren sun sauri cimma yarjejeniyar £116 miliyan don mai tsakiyar wasan na Ingila Elliot Anderson, amma ba su kara karfafa kungiyar ta farko da sauran 'yan wasa ba. Bernardo Silva da John Stones sun tafi kyauta, alhali Manuel Akanji, Nathan Ake, da James Trafford an sayar da su akan kudi mai yawa.
Makomar Rodri ma tana cikin jita-jita, yayin da zakaran Kofin Duniya yake da alaka mai karfi da Barcelona yayin da yake shiga shekarar karshe ta kwantiraginsa da City.
Arsenal na gaban gasar, amma abokan hamayya suna nan
Arsenal su kadai ne daga cikin "big six" da ke shiga kakar 2025-26 da manajan da suka fara kakar da ya gabata. Enzo Maresca a City, Andoni Iraola a Liverpool, da Xabi Alonso a Chelsea duk sun karbi mukamansu a wannan rani, alhali Michael Carrick a Manchester United da Roberto de Zerbi a Tottenham an nada su a tsakiyar kakar wasa ta baya.
Wannan tsayayyen yanayi ya bai wa Arsenal fa'idar tsari wanda masu nazarin bayanai na Opta suka tabbatar da shi ta hanyar ba ƙungiyar kashi 38 cikin ɗari na damar cin kambun Premier League.
Mai sharhi Pat Nevin ya ce a BBC Radio 5 Live: "Ba shekara shida na ginin ba ne — shekaru shida ne, kuma Arsenal suna ci gaba kowace shekara. Amma Liverpool na iya dawowa da karfi, kuma kar a soke City bayan wasa ɗaya."
Duk da haka, darajar hasashen Community Shield na da iyaka: tun farkon Premier League a 1992-93, ƙungiyoyi takwas kawai daga cikin masu cin nasara 34 na Charity Shield ko Community Shield sun ci gasar daga baya. Karshen da ya yi haka shi ne Manchester City a kakar 2018-19.
