Arsenal goalkeeper David Raya has urged his teammates to improve despite a narrow 1-0 win over Manchester United at Old Trafford, Softfootball reports.
The Gunners were poor in large parts of the encounter but an error from the Red Devils goalkeeper Altay Bayindir allowed Riccardo Calafiori to head home the winner from a Declan Rice corner.
Speaking to Arsenal’s official club media, Raya admitted that the Gunners were second best on the day but team spirit helped them secure the crucial win. He also made seven saves on the day.
“It’s a great start in terms of points. In terms of a difficult place to come, away from home to Old Trafford and get the three points and a clean sheet. B but we know it wasn’t good enough with the ball and we made a lot of mistakes, so there’s a lot of things to improve, but I’m happy to get the three points and start with a clean sheet.”
After winning Premier
League Golden Glove award last season for keeping the most clean sheets, the Spanish international is hoping to continue with that success this season.
“We know coming to this place how important it is to be alert and try to do my job and help the team and I think I did that and tried to help the team as much as possible and we got the three points and the clean sheet, that was the main thing.
“That’s the willingness, the fight, the spirit that we have altogether, where things are not going our way and we make mistakes, everybody’s sprinting back and trying to help the teammate that’s made a mistake to recover the ball and to do the right thing. So we did that and I think we dug deep very, very well, especially the last 10-15 minutes where they threw everything at us and we defended very well, so that’s credit to the team.”
David Raya was voted Man of the Match against Manchester United and will hope to continue his good form when they host Leeds United next weekend in the Premier League match-day 2.
