Friends, I know well that friendlies are only friendlies and should be treated as such,but not only the results but the Arsenal performances this off-season have been simply brilliant!

我很清楚，友谊赛只是友谊赛，应该这样对待，但不仅是结果，阿森纳这个休赛期的表现简直太棒了！

There are several reasons behind the new arisal of Arsenal.

The coach Mikel Arteta is now more experienced as a coach with Arsenal, and his last season was not bad at all, but what makes Arsenal interesting are the new signings he has carefully handpicked, and who have impressed strongly already by now.

Gabriel Jesus and Zinchenko from City do make a difference, centre-back Saliba looks like a likely starter, they still have Odegaard as a playmaker, a player I believe could be absolute top of the world. He has top for years and he still is only 23 years old!

Arsenal are basically without any injury worries as they miss only midfielder Rowe, but looking at the squad it has no impact.

Palace were good last season under the Arsenal legend Vieira and we can expect another good season as they have had a calm off-season without much drama on transfer market. Koyate and Gallagher left from midfield, but in Cheikh Doucoure is an excellent replacement. There is also a new CB Chris Richards, and new keeper Sam Johnstone.

Palace preseason results were different depending on if they met lower league teams or top teams like Liverpool or Man Utd, against them they lost by 2 goals.

So there is a still a big gap in class as Palace are not a top-6 team but Arsenal are interesting and strong and fight for top-3.

There are also more injury worries at Palace, two keepers are out, and midfielders McArthur and especially Olise who is another player to follow.

I would not say the starting keeper of Palace tonight, Guiata I bad, not he is not their first choice either and with the firepower the Gunners have he will have a busy night!

阿森纳的新崛起背后有几个原因。

主帅阿尔特塔现在在阿森纳执教的经验更加丰富，他上个赛季的表现也不错，但阿森纳的有趣之处在于他精心挑选的新引援，而这些引援现在已经给人留下了深刻的印象。

来自曼城的加布里埃尔·热苏斯和津琴科确实有所作为，中后卫萨利巴看起来很可能是首发，他们仍然有厄德高作为组织核心，我相信他绝对可以成为世界顶级球员。他多年来一直保持领先，而他仍然只有23岁！

阿森纳基本上没有任何伤病担忧，因为他们只缺席了中场罗，但从阵容来看，这并没有什么影响。

上赛季在阿森纳传奇人物维埃拉的带领下，水晶宫表现出色，我们可以期待另一个出色的赛季，因为他们度过了一个平静的休赛期，在转会市场上没有太多戏剧性。

Koyate 和Gallagher 从中场离开，但在Cheikh Doucoure 是一个很好的替补。还有一个新的CB克里斯理查兹和新门将山姆约翰斯通。

水晶宫季前赛的结果会有所不同，具体取决于他们遇到的是低级别联赛球队还是利物浦或曼联等顶级球队，对阵他们时他们输了 2 个球。

所以在级别上仍然有很大的差距，因为水晶宫不是前六的球队，但阿森纳很有趣，也很强大，为前三而战。

水晶宫也有更多的伤病担忧，两名门将缺席，中场球员麦克阿瑟，尤其是另一名值得关注的球员奥利斯。

水晶宫的首发门将瓜伊塔我认为很糟糕，他也不是球队的首选门将，以枪手拥有的火力，他将度过一个忙碌的夜晚！