Arsenal goalkeeper Petr Cech has said that Arsenal are prepared to deal with Manchester United’s French striker Anthony Martial ahead of today’s game.
19-year-old Martial has enjoyed an excellent start to his career with the Red Devils. After signing for an estimated and initial fee of £36m, the Frenchman has scored four times and assisted once in his first six games for United, which included a debut goal against arch-rivals Liverpool.
Despite this, 33-year-old Petr Cech is confident that the north London side can bring an end to the former Monaco man’s ‘dream’ start.
It’s always difficult when you change clubs and come to a big club with a lot of expectation, everybody wants to see what you are made of but he had a fantastic start to his United career.
Maybe the enthusiasm and excitement of moving to the Premier League helps at the start, but then people start expecting things from you and every day they keep reminding you that you are the main goalscorer.
It was obviously a dream start for him and we have to make sure that doesn’t continue on Sunday.
The Czech international continued and admitted that watching videos of his opponents is what helps him to learn how to stop them.
We always watch footage of our opponents because the more information you get, the better picture you can have in your head during the game.
If there are certain things which keep repeating in the game of any team, then it helps.
I like to watch the players playing against me to have that idea pre-game – then you can adapt because the game keeps changing every minute.
It’s always good to have an idea of what can happen and the main things that are repeating in your opponents’ game. If you want to organise the people in front of you, this information is the main thing for a goalkeeper to have.
