Xhaka bids farewell to Arsenal with a brace

Granite Xhakain what may be his last game in the jersey of Arsenal‘gunner’ bid farewell to fans on final day with Premier League runner-up’s ‘little hand’ double against him Julen Lopetegui’s Wolves (5-0).

The Swiss scored the first double of his Arsenal career and ended the Gunners’ season with little fanfare, after two wins in eight games kept them in the Premier League title.

Against a Wolves already on holiday, Mikel Arteta’s side left the match doomed after just half an hour. Xhaka, first with his head and then finishing a dead ball from the penalty spot, scored his double in the first quarter of an hour, and Bukayo Saka scored his fourteenth goal in This Premier after receiving a filtered pass from Leonardo Trossard, who feigned against a defender and put in a good cross shot.

Arteta fulfilled what he promised in the preview and gave Arsenal a boost of optimism and hope for next year, when they will celebrate two decades of the ‘Invincibles’, the team that won the league – the last of the ‘Gunners’ – without losing. a game.

With Wolves thinking about the financial problems plaguing Julen Lopetegui, Arsenal also strolled in the second half. Thomas Partey had a goal disallowed and Gabriel Jesús joined the party by finishing a delivery from Trossard at the far post, who in half a season at Arsenal has distributed ten goals.

That goal from the Brazilian took Arsenal’s goals in this Premier League to 87, equaling his record in the competition, and the man in charge of breaking the record was Pole Jakub Kiwior, who scored his first goal as a ‘Gunner’ by finishing a volley on the second day of a corner.

Arsenal finished the Premier with 84 points, the highest number since the 90 they achieved twenty years ago, when they were unbeaten. Mikel Arteta’s team, 2nd, is finally 5 points behind Pep Guardiola’s champion Manchester City.