Cech happy to help Arsenal to three points
And his cross midway through the first half caused hearts to skip a beat in the Arsenal box when Laurent Koscielny swung a leg at it and necessitated a fine save from his goalkeeper Petr Cech to prevent an own goal.
In the day’s early kick-off, Liverpool and Tottenham drew 1-1 at White Hart Lane after Danny Rose cancelled out James Milner’s first-half penalty.
The Gunners broke the deadlock when Sanchez was knocked on the head in the area by Nordin Amrabat, and Cazorla slotted the resulting penalty down the middle.
Meanwhile, Wenger has urged Mesut Ozil to build on his scoring start to the season after admitting the one element the midfielder’s game has lacked is goals.
But it was Arsenal who were most clinical in their attacks, and Alexis Sanchez soon made it 2-0 in the 39th minute.
Watford have lost all seven of their games against Arsenal in the Premier League.
Arsenal’s next game will be after the global break.
Monreal has established himself as Arsenal’s first choice left-back ahead of Kieran Gibbs over the past two seasons and he once again lined-up at the back against Watford yesterday.
With new players surely coming in the side, Arsenal must feel that they have enough in their resources to challenge for the title.
Manager Walter Mazzarri is yet to taste victory since his appointment in the summer but he was able to give debuts to Pereyra, Daryl Jaanmat, Younes Kaboul and Isaac Success.
Arsenal’s three first half-goals ultimately prevailed, as despite Watford giving their all to get back in the game, the deficit was too much against an Arsenal side that looked back to their best.
“Today we had a good solid performance but at the moment we are not completely there physically and you could see that in second half”. But Saturday’s 3-0 win against Burnley was more of the Blues we know, may love, but probably hate.
“A lot of players are new so we have to prepare later”.
And as the 24-year-old former Everton centre-back closes in on a switch to London, where he will be play alongside fellow German defender Per Mertesacker, he said countryman Ozil helped persuade him to sign for Arsenal.
The hosts were starting to create more and defender Christian Kabasele nearly marked his Premier League debut with a goal but could only glance Etienne Capoue’s corner wide of the post. “We have not got any plans for anyone else now”.
“We had to work very hard to get the signings done”.
There is now a two-week break and we need to make sure we have a home game and keep winning.