Arsenal began their Premier League title challenge by beating Nottingham Forest 2-1 on Saturday.<\/p>\n
After finishing second to Manchester City last season, Arsenal have splashed over \u00a3200 million ($254 million) on new signings to try and claim their first title in 20 years.<\/span><\/p>\n Declan Rice, Kai Havertz and Jurrien Timber all made their debuts at the Emirates and Arsenal should have had a far more convincing scoreline to show for their performance.<\/span><\/p>\n Eddie Nketiah opened the scoring after some sublime skill by Gabriel Martinelli opened up the Forest defence.<\/span><\/p>\n Bukayo Saka then curled into the top corner from outside the area, but the Gunners were guilty of not killing the game off.<\/span><\/p>\n Forest had barely threatened until the introduction of Anthony Elanga and Taiwo Awoniyi.<\/span><\/p>\n Former Manchester United winger Elanga marked his debut with a fine run and cross for Awoniyi to score in his fifth consecutive Premier League game eight minutes from time.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe were super dominant,\u201d said Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta. \u201cThere\u2019s no question that we deserved to win the game.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe have to be more ruthless and more critical of ourselves to be more pushy and kill the games.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Victory ensured Arsenal did not lose any early ground on City, who began the defence of their title with a 3-0 win at Burnley on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Arsenal began their Premier League title challenge by beating Nottingham Forest 2-1 on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14903,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1376,6494,4636],"class_list":["post-14902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-arsenal","tag-nottingham-forest","tag-premier-league-title"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14902"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14904,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14902\/revisions\/14904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}