Chelsea and Arsenal gearing up for the Prem season

London's finest are wrapping up their 2025 preseason in prep for what is sure to be an exhilarating 2025/2026 Premier League Campaign.

The King's of North London, Arsenal took to the field vs Atletico Bilbao on Saturday. The Gunners started slow, but finished the 1st half strong. New signing Viktor Gyokeres scored his first Arsenal goal from a beautiful Martin Zubimendi 1st time cross to give Arsenal the lead.

Minutes later Gabriel Martinelli pounced on a loose ball and played Bukayo Saka through for Arsenal's 2nd goal doubling Arsenal's lead before the half.

Arsenal were strong defensively all game with the dynamic partnership of William Saliba and Gabriel Magalhaes starting together for the first time this preseason.

Kai Havertz came in with 20 minutes to play and scored a fantastic goal on a long chipped ball from Bukayo Saka, putting the game to bed.

Celebrations at the Emirates after Kai Havertz scores Arsenal's 3rd goal

The game then went to penalties for training purposes and Arsenal again prevailed 6-5 in pens. Below are Martin Zubimendi and Bukayo Saka's tying, and winning pens.

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As always Emirates Stadium was buzzing with over 59k in attendance. The sights and the sounds in and around the ground were electrifying and unforgettable. Talking to fans after the match one common sentiment stands. The fans want Eberechi Eze. We all think Eze would be the final piece to get Arsenal over the line in 25/26.

AFTV founder Robbie Lyle echoed what the fans want. "I think they need one more player, and that would be Eze" Lyle mentioned. "Eze gets them that needed creativity and spark when Odegaard, or Martinelli aren't firing."

Below are several more pics from Saturday.

The Gunners Pub

On Friday we caught Chelsea's 2nd to last preseason match as they took on revamped Bayer Leverkusen. Chelsea dominated the full 90 taking 24 shots. Estevao and Joao Pedro scored for Chelsea.

Cole Palmer was unplayable all match doing whatever, whenever. Chelsea takes on AC Milan on Sunday in their finale. Below are pics from the match at Stamford Bridge.

Another glorious time was had......until the next time.........