Arsenal won the Champions League match 3-0 at Slavia Prague on Tuesday, the Gunners’ fourth in as many games. Mikel Merino scored two more goals in the second half to lift the score to 3-1.
The outcome also represented an eighth consecutive clean sheet for the Premier League leaders and a 10th straight win in all competitions.
In the Champions League, they have so far scored 11 goals and not conceded any, moving them clear of the leaderboard.
Three objectives
A new clean sheet
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Max Dowman, an Arsenal player, was the youngest player ever to play in a Champions League game when he arrived on the field in the 73rd minute, aged just 15 years and 309 days.
After Slavian captain Lukas Provod had handled the ball in the box, clearing a corner, stand-in captain Bukayo Saka opened the scoring from the penalty spot on 32 minutes.
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After Leandro Trossard’s excellent pass left him unmarked in the Slavia box, Merino made it 2-0 with a quick breakaway.
On 68 minutes, he headed a header past Declan Rice’s cross past Slavia goalkeeper Jakub Markovic.
Mikel Arteta made four changes to the Gunners’ 2-0 league win at Burnley on Saturday, with Merino making one.
Another clean sheet from @Arsenal is here! ⛔️
Their eighth consecutive shutout, which came against Slavia Prague, is the club’s highest ever result since 1903, which was 3-0!
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Gabriel Magalhaes fired wide from outside the box, and Provod followed suit within the first two minutes.
Slavia’s tireless defense stifled any attempts to get close to the Arsenal goal, and the reigning Czech champions struggled to score even one shot on target throughout the contest.
Despite the absences of injured strikers Viktor Gyokeres, Kai Havertz, and Gabriel Martinelli, Arsenal quickly took the lead and started dominating possession.
Midway through the first half, Saka alone had three shots on goal within eight minutes, but Markovic’s Markovic kept them both shut down.
On the following 60 minutes, the goalkeeper stopped the Arsenal captain’s low shot from inside the box.
With two points from their four Champions League matches, Slavia, the Czech top-flight leader, is left with.
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