Arsenal moved up in third place in the Champions League table after a 3-0 win over Dinamo Zagreb this evening.
Declan Rice put the Gunners ahead inside 2 minutes, but despite dominating, clear cut chances were few and far between. Kai Havertz doubled the lead in the second half, heading home a fine Gabriel Martinelli cross, before captain Martin Odegaard put some gloss on the scoreline with his first open play goal of the season.
Here’s how the players rated this evening.
Read the Arsenal 3-0 Dinamo Zagreb match report and see the goal here
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Good win, job done. We still need to be more clinical and should have had the game sewn up by half time.
Good stuff lads. Still looked a bit stodgy at times, but fingers crossed having Nwaneri back will help with that. I don’t want to slate Sterling any more than he has been already, but there’s just so much more fluidity/interchange when he isn’t on the pitch
Also, chuffed for Butler-Oyedeji. Realistically, it won’t be Arsenal where he plays the rest of his football, but he’s lived the dream!
He cant play anymore. He just can’t.
Sorry I replied to the wrong comment. I was referring to sterling
I feel sorry for Sterling. He looks like he’s got lead in his boots, can’t do the simplest things right.
Sterling is completely ineffectual but I do appreciate his workrate and that technically he’s still quite secure. We’ve had players in recent years who were hurting the team by being on the pitch. He doesn’t help us much, but also isn’t some who I’m afraid will lose us the game.
Well done to the lads , was bit flat but what do u do , we won and didn’t conced.
Well done Zinky, Ethan and Kiwi for coming in from the cold and from injuries .
Rice hitting form, Jorgi solid as he can be but Gabi Marti had an edge about him , a drive a confidence and a willingness to try things which is probably the most pleasing ….
Did anyone see Sesko’s goal today? Yes please, sign him NOW!
Tammy Abraham on loan at Milan this season also scored a very nice goal. Just made me think why the fck could we not have taken him on loan rather than useless Sterling…such a bad summer window last year…damn.
Says a lot that Nwaneri produced more in 30 minutes than Stirling did in double the time.
The Kai slander the last few weeks was honestly a disgrace, not to mention his family. He’s a brilliant player and a classy person, pure Arsenal DNA even if he didn’t grow up with us, I’m so happy we have him. Hopefully two goals in two games and a quite brilliant quick thinking assist will put an end to that.
I didn’t, read any of the kai hate only what some.post in heat of moment on live blog .
Kaiser is a very very important team player and no more than Timber and Martin Od, he s at a loss without Saka , saka makes everyone so much better .
If kai gets a Cunha to drop in and out of 9/10 it’s a support that could help him . Even way cunha drifts in from left makes space for kai. All good and move forward but an on form kai is essential to us winning anything
Great point, I think Saka assisted most of his goals last season? And many this one too… so obviously it takes some adjustment without B, but the boys are finding solutions slowly, Kai’s learning to move on the left side of the box, Martinelli is learning to find him there, it’s all slowly coming together.
“heat of the moment” isn’t an excuse though, our fans in the stadium are always in the heat of the moment, imagine if they started abusing him like that whenever he had a couple of bad performances. Never mind the fact he was coming back from a bad flu that put him out for a week as far as I know? Whose form wouldn’t be affected by that.
I know but u know the online tolerance and 0 to 100 mph status
People around you in the stadium keep you in check if you intend to be silly. It’s on the back of these personal devices that people become all evil. Lack of accountabily brings the worst out of humans.
Best I have seen Zinc in forever. If we ever have the fitness to play Kai, Rice and MO as the mid field…watch out. The Pole at CB proved the old adage about not making your team weaker at two spots instead of one. Which is what we did against AV on the weekend. Looked competent except when he needed some excitement to stay awake.
As I have said many times, I love this team’s fight and toughness. Enjoy the ride.
Just pray we don’t have to start Sterling again.
What’s this game you write of called “dipshit”? 🤔 🤣
It’s sort of funny when Zinchenko, Jorginho, and Ødegaard are all on the pitch. Might create a chance or two for the forwards.
Decent performances from almost everyone. GM was great at winning corners, even if end-product not quite there. Jorginho had some nice touches of class.
But Sterling, he just doesn’t seem to have the touch any more. He is trying, but it’s really not happening for him. Is he just done? Confidence issue? Either way, at the moment we can’t afford to play him unless we’re really cruising in a game and just need a squad player to see out some minutes.
Most important today was that Martin Odegaard scored he really needed that as the ball not been falling for him so important
I bet it must have felt like an eternity for Nathan on the sidelines, waiting for the ball to go out like that. Good to see him finally get on though.
Can’t remember the last time hale end was this productive tbh…
So fuckin happy for Ødegaard and especially Kai Havertz. I hope that the heavy load is off their chests and they can now go on a run.