Despite Alexandre Lacazette barely playing quarter of an hour against Benfica, Arsenal fans have already made up their minds about the former Lyon striker.

Arsenal thrashed Benfica in their opening Emirates Cup game in what was the most enjoyable game of pre-season so far. So how did the players do? Here are their player ratings

Despite a bit of a defensively dodgy first half, Arsenal managed to romp to a comfortable win over Benfica in the Emirates Cup.

Theo Walcott has said that winning the Emirates Cup could help Arsenal get off to a quick start this season.

With the Emirates Cup taking place this weekend, Arsene Wenger claims that he's happy to have it back.

An Arsenal XI thrashed Boreham Wood 4-0 last night.

Arsene Wenger is a man who loves statistics, so could this be why he allegedly turned down the chance to sign Leicester City's Riyad Mahrez this summer?

Several first-team players are set to feature in an Arsenal XI team to play Boreham Wood tomorrow.

Chelsea’s Pedro tweeted from his hospital bed to show that he was ok after being absolutely clattered by David Ospina during their friendly game on Saturday.

Arsene Wenger has admitted he deliberately played a number of players with no experience in certain positions to see how they coped with it against Chelsea.

Apart from the fact that Arsenal need to go back to the drawing board on a number of issues ahead of the new season, what else did we learn from the Gunners' 3-0 pre-season loss against Chelsea?

N'Golo Kante absolutely believes that Arsenal can win the Premier League next season.

Although it was only a pre-season match, some form of cohesion would have been nice.

Well that could have gone better...

After playing against him while at Paris Saint-Germain, David Luiz has applauded Arsenal for signing Alexandre Lacazette from Lyon this summer.

Arsene Wenger insists that Arsenal's pre-season clash against Chelsea on Saturday is far more than just a friendly.

Laurent Koscielny has given a positive injury update ahead of Arsenal's pre-season clash against Chelsea at the Bird's Nest Stadium in Bejing.

Arsenal are the 11th best team in Europe according to UEFA's coefficient rankings.

Petr Cech had some wise words for the younger Arsenal players following their win over Bayern Munich on Wednesday.

According to Petr Cech, it'll take more than dodgy stomachs to derail Arsenal's pre-season tour.

Arsenal continued their pre-season preparations with a penalty shoot-out win over Bayern Munich.

Emiliano Martinez was the hero after saving two penalties to help Arsenal to a shoot-out victory against Bayern and revealed his secrets to such success with spot-kicks.

Arsène Wenger revealed the Arsenal players suffered with food poisoning in Wednesday's penalty shootout win with Bayern Munich.

Alex Iwobi was pleased with Arsenal's penalty shoot-out win against Bayern Munich.

Arsenal goalkeepers Petr Cech and Emi Martinez both shone in Wednesday's win over Bayern Munich.

In a turn of events no one was expecting, Arsenal managed to beat Bayern Munich, on penalties, and much of the credit has to go Alex Iwobi.

Arsenal scored late in normal time and beat Bayern Munich on penalties. Here's how Twitter reacted throughout the match.

Arsenal beat Bayern on penalties, after a late header from Alex Iwobi ensured the two sides were level after normal time.

Arsenal’s Alexandre Lacazette will start this afternoon’s International Champions Cup clash with Bayern Munich.

Ahead of today’s friendly between Bayern Munich and Arsenal at the Shanghai Stadium, both managers have been holding talks.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has been pleased by the Gunners’ first-half of the pre-season tour in Australia, but is now bracing himself for the biggest challenge in China.

Arsenal play Bayern Munich in Shanghai on Wednesday in the third of their pre-season friendlies.

Mesut Ozil, Alexandre Lacazette, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Emi Martinez, Francis Coquelin and Nacho Monreal all attended an Arsenal fan party in China.

Hundreds of Chinese fans attended one of the more unique Arsenal fan parties in recent times.

Arsenal continued their pre-season training in China ahead of tomorrow's game against Bayern Munich.

Olivier Giroud has flown to China with the rest of the Arsenal squad for their pre-season tour and he's rather excited.

Thanks to Arsenal's pre-season matches in Sydney, ANZ Stadium's annual aggregate has risen to $1.14m.

Arsenal have landed in China and wasted no time getting stuck in to a bunch of weird pre-season duties.

Olivier Giroud praised Alexandre Lacazette after Arsenal's win over Western Sydney Wanderers, which may suggests fans' assumptions of a disliking between the two is untrue.

Arsenal players were working hard in training on Monday, but Laurent Koscielny, Olivier Giroud and Mohamed Elneny found the time to visit the impressive Yuyuan Garden.