I’m sure that all Arsenal supporters alike a few months ago couldn’t wait for the start of the new season. After finishing impressively to claim the 4^th place trophy last season and with a widely reported £70m war chest at Wenger’s disposal, I for one couldn’t foresee such an abject and disillusioned feel around Arsenal fans. I came into this season feeling incredibly optimistic, hoping that come 17^th August we would have an already improved squad ready to challenge for that title. Instead it is now the 16^th of August and we barely have enough senior players to field a starting XI.

Anyway I’m here to write a preview of tomorrow’s game not bleat on about how poor our summer business has been so far. Luckily the fixture list has been relatively kind to us and has given us a home tie against Villa to start with.

After Sunday’s comfortable 7-0 victory over the Indonesian Dream Team, Arsenal have now travelled 1800 miles to Hanoi, Vietnam to face a Vietnamese XI in the second match of their South East Asia tour.

No Premier League team have ever been to Vietnam, so Arsenal will be the first to play a Vietnamese outfit. The Vietnam national team are not exactly a powerhouse in world football, nor Asian football for that matter, boasting just 2 victories in their last 10 official FIFA games. So their world ranking of 145 will not surprise many of you, however they are ranked higher than Indonesia who are 168^th. Vietnam has had some recent success in the South East Asian version of the European Championships, the ASEAN Championship, winning the competition in 2008.