Arsenal midfielder Aaron Ramsey was delighted with their 3-0 Community Shield rout of Manchester City.
Ramsey said the Gunners have learned how to avoid suffering repeats of last season's humbling defeats to City (6-3) and Liverpool (5-1).
"In games last season we've been guilty of conceding on and it's difficult enough to play against these teams, let along going one or two goals down in the first minutes," said the Welshman.
"It's important just to stay in the game, to stay patient and for them to open up and us to capitalise on that.
"The team has a good team spirit and we all get along really well now and everybody wants to work hard for each other.
"The thing we need to improve on is the big games, so hopefully we've learned our lesson and we can go into this season and give it a really good go."
