Arsenal 2 Everton 0: Gabriel Jesus’ goalscoring streak continues with dominant display against hapless Toffees
GABRIEL JESUS' electric start to his Arsenal career continued as awful Everton were put to the sword in Baltimore.
The £45million Brazilian was involved in a running battle with Yerry Mina in a pre-season encounter which was anything but friendly.
But it was Jesus who had the last laugh when he opened the scoring after 33 minutes then teed up Bukayo Saka for Arsenal’s second goal three minutes later.
Coming on the back of his two goals on his Gunners debut in Nuremberg last week, it is no wonder that Mikel Arteta is getting so excited about his new striker.
And it was probably why Arteta was taking no chances when he withdrew Jesus at half-time after he had been on the wrong end of a wild Ben Godfrey challenge just before the break.
The Arsenal boss had already seen enough of his latest acquisition to feel confident that his team are going to be a lot more clinical in front of goal next season.
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But Frank Lampard will already be fearing the worst after watching his side being torn to shreds in the first game of their pre-season campaign.
They were under the cosh long before Jesus converted a clinical finish into the roof of the net after Jordan Pickford completely missed a corner from Cedric Soares.
And they fell further behind when Jesus threaded an inch perfect pass through for Saka to steal in at the back post to double Arsenal’s lead.
It was all so easy for Arsenal that William Saliba barely had to break sweat in his first Gunners appearance in front of a crowd.
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The French international centre-half has been assured that he will play a big part in Arteta’s plans after spending the last three years out on loan.
But it was almost impossible to judge the powerful young defender against such toothless opposition who should already be steeling themselves for another relegation battle.
And though Everton were slightly better after Lampard had changed his entire team at half-time, they were still barely unable to trouble Arsenal‘s American keeper Matt Turner.
