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Christian Norgaard has denied strategies that Arsenal are a defensive aspect, insisting his new group have an attacking method to matches.

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Arsenal have had a good sufficient begin to the 2025/26 marketing campaign, successful three of 5 Premier League fixtures (drawing one and shedding the opposite), and successful their opening Champions League and League Cup video games.

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4 of these 5 wins in all competitions had been by a number of objectives, together with a 3-0 in opposition to Nottingham Forest and a 5-0 in opposition to Leeds United.

But there have been legitimate questions on Arsenal’s skill to create probabilities, with the defeat to Liverpool and the draw with Manchester Metropolis seeing the Gunners spending loads of time in possession with out actually threatening to transform that into objectives.

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These issues are more likely to be entrance and centre on Sunday, with Arsenal travelling to St. James’ Park. The Gunners have struggled for objectives away to Newcastle United at the perfect of occasions, and Sunday’s hosts have solely conceded three objectives in 5 league fixtures in 2025/26.

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However chatting with the media this week, Christian Norgaard insisted that Arsenal are an attacking aspect.

“I believe we’re an attacking group with an attacking mindset,” Norgaard . “Hopefully that may also present within the subsequent couple of video games.”

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“I believe we’ve been going for it loads in these video games, notably on the weekend [against Manchester City],” Norgaard added. “I do know we equalised late however I believe we had been the dominant aspect, trying over 90 minutes, with extra probabilities, extra momentum.

“Generally xG doesn’t present the best image all the time. That would have created a variety of probabilities for a number of the assaults that we had within the sport.

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“The gamers, the expertise is unbelievable. There’s a lot high quality within the group. Now it’s nearly getting it to click on. I’m positive it would after which we’ll be flying.”

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Norgaard was certainly one of many Arsenal gamers to select up an damage within the early weeks of the brand new marketing campaign, solely making his first begin for the membership in opposition to Port Vale in midweek.

The 31-year-old is but to play a Premier League minute for the Gunners, and he’s unlikely to start out over in opposition to Newcastle on Sunday. The hope is that he’ll be introduced on with a result in defend.