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Arsenal hit three in seven minutes to stay perfect in Champions League game
Arsenal scored three goals in seven second-half minutes to maintain their perfect start to the league phase of the Champions League with victory over Lille at Emirates Stadium. Jurrien Timber broke the deadlock in the 64th minute when he collected Noni Madueke’s pass and lifted…
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Arsenal scored three goals in seven second-half minutes to maintain their perfect start to the league phase of the Champions League with victory over Lille at Emirates Stadium.
Jurrien Timber broke the deadlock in the 64th minute when he collected Noni Madueke’s pass and lifted a clever finish over Berke Ozer.
The BBC reports that England forward Eberechi Eze doubled the lead three minutes later, finishing first-time from substitute Bukayo Saka’s cross.
Saka then sealed a second straight win in the competition when he rolled in the third in the 71st minute.
Boss Mikel Arteta had made five changes to the side that beat Leeds 2-1 in the Premier League at the weekend, and the frontline of Eze, Madueke and Viktor Gyokeres struggled to click in a laboured first half.
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Arteta resisted the temptation to make wholesale changes at the break and was rewarded when Dutch defender Timber found the breakthrough.
Saka, Kai Havertz and captain Martin Odegaard were then introduced and all three substitutes played a major role in the next two goals as last season’s beaten finalists wrapped up a convincing success.
Having won at Napoli in their opener, Arsenal have now made it two wins from two.
They won all eight of their league phase games in the previous campaign before losing the final to Paris St-Germain, and again look hard to beat at this stage of the competition.
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