Arsenal vs Coventry LIVE: Odegaard says Gunners ‘could have done better’ despite dominant win | OneFootball

Martin Odegaard praised his players after Arsenal got their Premier League title defence off to a dream start as they cruised past newly promoted Coventry City 3-0 but admitted that there were things they ‘could have done better’.

Kai Havertz opened the scoring against last year’s Championship winners, who are back in the top flight for the first time since the 2000/01 season, in the opening 15 minutes.

Bukayo Saka doubled the Gunners’ lead a few minutes later before Odegaard finished off an emphatic job shortly after the restart, with Coventry keeper Carl Rushworth getting his fingertips to something of a miskick but unable to keep it off the line.

Mikel Arteta’s side were in cruise control throughout and put in another dominant showing after dismantling Manchester City 3-0 in the Community Shield last week, with World Cup winner Mikel Merino nearly adding a fourth in stoppage time.

But this was a dispiriting return to the Premier League for the Sky Blues, with Frank Lampard aiming to simply keep his team in the to flight this season.

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