Arsenal 1 West Brom 0 Highlights and Goal Videos
Arsenal play the opening 2008 / 2009 Premiership match at the Emirates and win by a goal to nil.Beating Arsenal in their opening game was always going to be tough for West Brom. However in their last Premiership season they took out the Gunners in both the home and the away legs.
Arsenal were fast out of the blocks and put pressure on the West Brom goal from the opening whistle. The deadlock was broken just four minutes in in traditional Arsenal style. A string of passes worked the ball into the box and Denilson ut the ball back into the path of Nasri for a tap in.
The game was looking to be a 5-0 thrashing as Arsenal continued to hammer the West Brom goal but the visitors defended hard for the rest of the match keeping the score to an honorable 1-0.
Final score Arsenal 1 West Brom 0.
