Why David Raya was forced into Arsenal pre-match change against former club Brentford

supporters may have noticed a slightly different look to goalkeeper David Raya in Saturday's Premier League clash with Brentford.

The Gunners turned their focus back to league action on Saturday evening after Tuesday night's 3-0 win over Real Madrid in the Champions League. Mikel Arteta made five changes to his side ahead of the return-leg at the Santiago Bernabeu on Wednesday.

Oleksandr Zinchenko, Jorginho, Kieran Tierney, Ethan Nwaneri and Leandro Trossard all came in as

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Raya retained his spot inbetween the sticks after keeping a clean sheet in mid-week. However, the goalkeeper was donning a different look at the Emirates Stadium due to a change enforced on him.

The Spaniard, who was coming up against his former team, wore his usual goalkeeping jersey and Arsenal's black away shorts and socks on the bottom. In usual home games in the Premier League, his strip contains a bright yellow shirt, shorts and socks.

Sky Sports confirmed during their coverage of the game that the decision was made due too similar to Brentford's socks in their away strip. The Bees players wore their dark green away kit with bright yellow socks, identical to Raya's usual sock colour.

Elsewhere, football.london understands. There is hope that the defender will be OK to return for the second-leg clash with Madrid.

Speaking before the game, Arteta said: "Ben White couldn’t be in the squad because he felt something again post-training yesterday, so that limits the solutions we have because Jurrien wasn’t ready to start the game either.

"Other players as well played a lot of minutes and other players deserve to play minutes to help the team.”