We saw our mid-season break come to an end with a defeat against Juventus, despite us dominating the game throughout.
Goals in stoppage time at the end of both halves saw us fall to defeat, with a Granit Xhaka own goal and a strike from London-born Samuel Iling-Junior proving the difference on the scoresheet.
Despite that, we bossed proceedings throughout and saw two goals for Eddie Nketiah ruled out either side of the break – and elements of the performance will have pleased Mikel Arteta ahead of the return of the Premier League on Boxing Day.
The opening 20 minutes were played almost exclusively in the visitors’ half, and we carved out some good early opportunities during that period.
Less than two minutes had passed when Reiss Nelson cut inside and rippled the side-netting, and then he produced some excellent control and skill to tee up Fabio Vieira on the volley, but the Portuguese’s blast was parried over by Juve keeper Mattia Perin.
Nelson’s bright start sadly came to a premature end when he limped off with a muscle injury after just 22 minutes, but we continued to be the dominant side and on 32 minutes Eddie Nketiah was denied twice within 60 seconds.
He firstly saw a goal ruled out for offside after tucking away a deflected Kieran Tierney shot, and then from the resulting free-kick a poor pass along the backline allowed our striker a shooting chance but he thumped his effort against the post.
But despite all that pressure, we found ourselves behind at half-time. On a rare foray forward, Juve won a corner and after it was cleared back out to Nicoli Fagioli, his cross was inadvertently flicked on into his own net by the head of Xhaka to hand the advantage to the Italians.
The second half once again saw us control possession and territory but struggle to create the same amount of opportunities. Nketiah did get the ball in the net around the hour mark, but he was again thwarted by the referee who adjudged Gabriel to have fouled a defender following a corner into the Juve box.
That brought about the introduction of Amario Cozier-Duberry and he looked lively during his stint on the pitch, regularly causing issues down the left flank as we probed for an equaliser.
Massimiliano Allegri’s side sat back throughout the second half and were content to soak up all our pressure, but Fagioli did go close with a drive from the edge of the box that whistled over the returning Aaron Ramsdale’s crossbar.
Late on, Ethan Nwaneri was also introduced for his first appearance for our first-team at Emirates Stadium, and he flashed an attempt just wide after some neat footwork on the edge of the area.
But right at the death, former Highbury resident Iling-Junior found space in the box and saw a shot deflect off Rob Holding to ensure our World Cup break ended with an undeserved defeat.
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Easy win from "zero champions league title" Club ,we don't too proud, maybe win from chelsea we deserve to proud…
Yo thanks for the goals G
Arsenal sedekah ☺️☺️☺️
Early signs that arteta is not ready for uefa football yet
Amario Cozier-Dobry was amazing …👌
In two minutes I saw I think Arsenal dominated and Juve was pretty lucky. Hopefully we can continue dominating the league.
Almost funny how we lost this one. Can't get much more unlucky than that 😂
Useless we need a striker asap
Great game for Arteta and Edu to show to the owners that we need couple of forward players. We should not go into the resumption of the season with any doubts. Having options will never be too bad.
Now Reiss is injured, ESR yet to train and why Zinchenko always not available?
Bravi ragazzi avanti così forza Juve !!!!!!
Only arsenal can beat arsenal
Thats why we scored two own goals
Arsenal is the next world club to watch, the speed, resilience, skills kudos gunners.
Juventus C team vs Arsenal
Iling Jr is a champion for me!!!
Oh my nketiah just ain’t gonna cut it 😮
Nketiah is how we don't win the league
We played so much better when nelson was on after that we just did crosses that diddnt work
This reminded me of the old arsenal, you know a part of me misses that arsenal
Nketiah needs to work on his finishing
Is that offside if the defender messed up the clearance?
😂 so funny
Arsenal scored all the goals!
😂😂😂😂😂
Eddie if you love arsenal please never play football again
Forza Juve 🖤🤍
Good work by Eddie Nketiah
Dubbrey was quick very impressed
Nketiah is not him😏
Hopefully Nelson will recover soon 🙏 He deserves the chance to get a new contract and he's a talented LW
Was nketiah goal offside?
It was played back by Juve player.
With players like Nketiah we are doomed
Only Arsenal can lose to Juventus C and the fans would be making all kinds of excuses. Why are yall playing Rob Holding as a CB
beautiful flick-on by Xhaka 🙂
Without Gabriel Jesus, Nketiah's not enough for us.
Heheheh they said it's only Juve U23s. However, the average age of this Arsenal starting eleven is 25. If you swap Rob Holding with William Saliba, Fabio Vieira with Bukayo Saka, and Reiss Nelson with Gabriel Martinelli, the average age would go lower to 23. Even if you swap Kieran Tierney with Zinchenko and Eddie Nketiah with Gabby, the average age would only go up slightly to 23.3. So, Arsenal supporters need to change the narrative here. Whenever Arsenal plays, you should say that Arsenal only play with their U23 squad (or U24 to be precised).
Arsenal kalo mau juara kontrak Cristiano Ronaldo. 🏆
Real flexing game …
And Folks the DEGREE of our SQUAD Depth quickly got exposed … 2 goals with one shot on target .. Eddie can't even find an empty net … shall I continue ? Unless we go to the market and get the right players that can complement our style of play we might find ourselves in a position where we already know before…. Arsenal4ever even in defeat
Nketiah is hopeless. Still.
Hhh parsenal is finished
sign Mudryk and Millenkovic Savic please
I LOVE YOU MY GREAT LOVELY CLUB❤🩹❤🩹❤🩹❤🩹❤🩹💌💌💌💌💌💌💝💝💝💝💘💘💘💘💘💯💯💔
Juventus Turin C😂😂😂😂😂😂 has just destroyed Arsenal A
Didn’t the disallowed goal coke off there defender
Lowlights… Ahem
Why was the Arsenal website saying tickets were close to selling out? Far from it!!
Mamma che difese orribili 😆
We should get Amrabat
Get Thuram in.affordable too.need a striker to push for the league otherwise city will walk it again
Right foot Nketiah. RIGHT FOOT!