Yes it was only a friendly, but the signs were good for Arsenal.
Arsene Wenger’s men put Viking FK to the sword in Norway an 8-0 pasting in their penultimate pre-season game.
Goals flooded in after a shaky start, with Joel Campbell, Santi Cazorla and Theo Walcott finding back of the net.
Alex Iwobi then scored two and then Chuba Akpom finished off the rout in the final minute.
That is three wins from four pre-season games with Arsenal set to meet Man City before the Premier League season kicks off in earnest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6ZVVxEti5E
With Spurs fans celebrating their own pre-season goal fest after a 6-1 hammering of Inter Milan, you’d have thought that seeing the Gunners hit weight (albeit it against slightly lesser opposition) would have at least heartened the Arsenal faithful.
Were Arsenal fans satisfied? Were they heck.
The club’s official Twitter account triumphantly posted the match report with a David Brent-esque ‘Just the 8 goals…’ tweet.
Just the 8️⃣️ goals for us tonight…
The #VIKvAFC report 🔻 https://t.co/b3uDjV9fgb
— Arsenal (@Arsenal) August 5, 2016
The Brent-style post didn’t get past some supporters…
https://twitter.com/mules_gobby/status/761718983066255361
https://twitter.com/taird14/status/761815273133449216
Arsenal fans were quick to remind the club that FK Viking weren’t exactly Inter Milan…
https://twitter.com/RyanGooding29/status/761667795306381312
good performance but come on don't get carried away
— Rory Leigh (@RoryLeigh1) August 5, 2016
And we can only presume this is a joke…
https://twitter.com/attwood10/status/761676167594344448
Then obviously attentions turned to the fact that they’ve still not splashed the cash and signed a high profile striker…
https://twitter.com/AzalCrow/status/761670710079135748
more need to be done.
— Arabmoney (@abidoyeadebayo4) August 5, 2016
Ok, announce somebody to celebrate this
— Realest Thing (@Papichulo_KD) August 5, 2016
https://twitter.com/ChunLee79/status/761706334194663426
Then the thought started crossing people’s minds. What if this 8-0 win meant Wenger thought he didn’t actually need more firepower?
https://twitter.com/billomachine/status/761682074600341504
no need of striker again, arsenal are good to go
— John Onehi (@johnonehi2) August 5, 2016
and because of that we are now world beaters we won't sign anyone. Fuck off 😕
— Jason Tustain (@tuckysix4) August 5, 2016
https://twitter.com/billomachine/status/761682074600341504
