Barcelona 2-1 Arsenal: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scores in friendly defeat
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An excellent late goal from Luis Suarez gave Barcelona a 2-1 friendly win over Arsenal at a packed Nou Camp.
In their final pre-season game, Arsenal named a fairly strong starting XI and led at half-time through Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang's fine individual strike.
But Barca were dominant after the break and levelled through Ainsley Maitland-Niles' calamitous own goal.
Former Liverpool man Suarez then came off the bench to score a clinical late volley for the La Liga champions.
Lionel Messi was an unused substitute but a crowd of 98,812 did get their first glimpse of £107m signing Antoine Griezmann.
The Frenchman was fairly quiet, his best moment coming with a disallowed goal for offside after an excellent pass from Ivan Rakitic.
Arsenal - without record signing Nicolas Pepe - counter-attacked well in the first half and Aubameyang put them ahead with a brilliant turn and finish from 16 yards, shrugging off Jordi Alba to lash into the top corner.
That shocked the home crowd, and after half-time Barcelona were completely on top. Bernd Leno saved well from Ousmane Dembele twice before Maitland-Niles passed beyond him without looking for an own goal.
Seventeen-year-old Bukayo Saka looked lively for the Gunners as a late sub but Suarez prevented a penalty shootout when he ran onto Sergi Roberto's lofted through ball to drive a volley past Leno.
Arsenal face Newcastle in their Premier League opener next Sunday.
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But it is no coincidence that Mustafi came on in the 87th minute and Arsenal conceded in the 90th. He had a very respectable first 6 months at Arsenal after joining, but I would rather see an Under 18s CB on the field than him these days. He lacks any positional awareness.
“I'd rather lose to Barca than win the Aldi cup.”
That’s a Lidl cruel. 😄
Mustafi is so bad that we'd do better playing with ten men.
Pre season has been pretty depressing watching helplessly as we continue to defend like The Dog & Dick third XI.
Duck: Duck. I meant Duck ..
Big club & a top team back in the day.
Why o why has nothing been done to address that terrible defence.
It's all for real as of next week.
Good luck with that.
Not quite as one sided as written. Barca shaded it but Arsenal were excellent in defence midfield and striking
Mustafi was on late so to be whinging about him is fanasy, he has better stats last season than maguire Moments of excellence from AFC bring on 19/20 PL
We need a defender with pace and can play put from that back - neither are mustafi's strong points. He was on the pitch less than 5 mins and got exposed. I doubt suarez would have run in free if sokratis was still on the pitch