Samir Nasri made his Arsenal debut as we came from behind to secure a 3-1 win over Stuttgart.

All our goals came in the second half from Carlos Vela, Nicklas Bendtner and Jack Wilshere (again playing a blinder) after Yildiray Basturk had put Stuttgart ahead.

In addition to new signing Nasri pulling on a Gunners shirt for the first time (incidentially the first official outing of our yellow away kit), Emmanuel Adebayor made his first pre-season appearance (looking rubbish...), while former Arsenal legend Lehmann was in goal for Stuttgart.

Lehmann easily collected an attempted chip from Robin van Persie in the 11th minute, before current Arsenal No.1 Manuel Almunia made a smart save at the near post from Romania striker Ciprian Marica and Nasri fired a 25-yard effort over following a quick counter-attack.
Brilliant reactions

Veteran Lehmann showed brilliant reactions to deny Theo Walcott from point-blank range after he was set up by Van Persie before Bendtner and Vela were introduced at half-time.

However, we were behind six minutes after the restart when Basturk drilled in a low strike from the edge of the box.

However, we quickly drew level, when Vela (who hit a hat-trick against a Burgenland XI on Monday) finished emphatically from Bendtner's pass. What a start Vela is making here...

Bendtner had scored four goals 48 hours earlier and chipped in with another pre-season goal when he poked the ball past Lehmann from Vela's pass on 65 minutes.

Wilshere, who had replaced Nasri on the hour mark, completed the scoring late on with his third goal in two appearances courtesy of a crisp shot.

Our youngsters had a difficult game but came away with a 2-1 success over Barnet in our now familiar pre-season friendly.

Our first half performance lacked luster and included many of the first-team players like Manuel Almunia, Bacary Sagna, Gael Clichy, Theo Walcott, Nicklas Bendtner and a debut to £5million Aaron Ramsey.

However, Barnet opened the scoring and through Kenny Gillet, who beat Almunia down low at his near post... a bit worrying.

The second half was played with 11 substitutes and two of those players managed to find the back of the net as Arsenal claimed a 2-1 success.

Firstly Jay Simpson, who spent time with Millwall last season, finished off a fine move from eight yards out before teenage Dutch striker Nacer Barazite secured the win on 73 minutes.

I believe Barazite has been a steady success in the reserves and now deserves a chance in the first team to prove his worth on the big stage - but will Arsene give him the chance this season? If we have a similar nightmare with injuries to our strike force like last season then he may not have too much choice - Especially without any front playing signings so far.

 

Arsene Wenger feels we could be set to end our search for silverware.

We are without a trophy since we defeated Manchester United on penalties in the 2005 FA Cup final.

Last season, despite an impressive beginning to the campaign, we faltered at the final stages to end a third term empty-handed.

But Wenger is sure our patience in youth will soon pay dividends as he looks ahead to the 2008/09 season.

"In life you need to be patient to get to the very top," Wenger said in The Daily Telegraph.

"I still believe we have created something special. When you are a winner you come back."

Tomas Rosicky has revealed he may miss the start of the new Premier League season.

The Czech Republic international has been out since January with a knee injury and underwent surgery in May, ruling him out of Euro 2008.

The news up to this point suggested his recovery was going well but in fact, he may not be unable to join the rest of the Gunners for pre-season training.

Rosicky has said "It will be yet a long time before I return, but at the start of the new season - some time in August - I will hopefully start with training,"