Timber Jurrien revealed on Monday that Arsenal wanted to “change the narrative” of their season against PSV Eindhoven. On Tuesday, they certainly achieved it.
Gunners arrived in the Netherlands with all the speeches if they can ‘clean’ their way through the Champions League rounds. There was a notion that while their attack was destroyed through damage, their protection could keep them in line.
Even before the match, Mikel Artesa referred to Arsenal having the best expected goals accepted the record at Europe’s highest competition this season and asked questions about the 2006 Gunners who reached the Champions League final – one who did not accept a single goal from the last 16 to the final.
Now the narrative, as the wood predicted, has really moved. Seven goals from eight target strokes have calmed the noise for the lack of Arsenal goals. For the first time, this team has produced a great victory with Mikel Merino starting ahead, with 17-year-old Ethan Nwaneri there as one of the leading players on the biggest scene.
But most importantly, she showed a brief overview of the first Arsenal strength at the end of last season – the team that won 16 of the 18 possible Premier League matches directed through some major results and ended at 89 points.
That team grew from goals from all over the field. After the PSV game, the Arts referred to how many of his full defenders – Gunners used six in Eindhoven on Tuesday evening, which should be some kind of record – it was included in the destructive act.
“Myles (Lewis-Skelly) makes an assist, Jurrien scores a head, (Riccardo) Calafiori makes a run and scores with the right foot. This is the team I want to see, the one who takes the initiative and wants to do things happen,” Artesa said.
But that team from last season also benefited from midfield goals contributions. Declan Rice received three goals and five assists in 11 games between March and May last year. The midfielder of England showed signs that he is ready to produce those numbers again by following a stunning cross to set the opening of Timber.
And Odegaard seems to have also found a belief. Arsenal’s captain has only one goal and one assist in the Premier League since the beginning of December, but on Tuesday, double it assured that he chose as many non-Penalti goals in Eindhoven than he reached his previous 33 Arsenal games.
Martin Odegaard scored as many non -sustainable goals against PSV that he has reached in his last 33 matches for Arsenal
Arsenal’s other added bonus was Nwaner’s performance – unreasonably his brightest walks, but in his season of progress. The fierce end for the second goal was supported by a nice run and the end for the fourth. His four blows generally displayed his faith.
“Even if Saka was still here, Ethan would still be inside and around the team and take minutes,” Rice added after Arsenal’s big victory. And this raises the question about what Arsenal team will decide in Madrid for the quarterfinals they have probably qualified now.
Saka is projected to return from that expected eighth tie, Gabriel Martinelli as well. If the arts can find a way to get all his offensive stars by firing in time for that game, maybe gunners can have something to play for all.
Arsenal began the week with PSV away being the game to save their season. And while the context of a weak PSV screen and their many injuries still continue on them, now they have much more confidence and quality to work with it to make this season develop a success through European silver.
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Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta gives his reaction to his team’s history by winning the victory in PSV
Rice: We have played like this throughout the season
Arsenal midfielder RICE Talking to talk Amazon Prime Sport:
“We were fluent, we had enthusiasm. We had a car and hunger, they are the rounds of the champions League.
“But we’ve played like that all season. We talked about a story, but we players feel like we’ve done well. Sometimes we score five or six, sometimes we score two or three, sometimes we may be lost by one.
“This is where we have to continue to pressure as a team with the mentality. Tonight we did it.
“When they came back to do it 3-1, we could have been sitting again. But we went on and we saw that with the goals we scored in the second half. A mass show. Now in the house game, nothing is done. We will see what happens.”
With yellow: “Seventeen, playing on the biggest football scene. Crazy is crazy! We see it every day. All ladies have taken it under our arm, the same with myles. You have to see them train, they are not afraid. And the way they come to perform.”
Verdikti: Arsenal enjoy the Carnival
Sky Sports News’ Gail Davis In Philips Stadion:
After passing almost every moment of awakening over the last few days talking about Arsenal’s inability to score they go out and placed seven PSVs past.
There is a context of the result of course and this was the heavy defense from the local team, really terrible sometimes, but Arsenal and the arts will not care.
Three goals in 13 minutes, 99 seconds between the fourth and fifth of Arsenal grasping the momentum they had created and then survived Wobble just before half the time would have been pleased.
Odegaard would have tasted twice his after a few difficult months, Rice looked back to his best threat, and Nwaner is an absolute joy to see in full flight – nothing seems to phase this teenager and he is not afraid to get the goal.
He was smart from the arts to attract Lewis -Skelly from the firing line – he has done very well this season it would be sad to see him in the shade with more disciplinary problems.
I was worried if the game could live up to drama, spectacular and splendor of the warm act of Carnival Eindhoven – no such problem.
‘A bay in class’
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Tim Sherwood gives his full -time reaction as Arsenal created stories against PSV
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“They didn’t have to worry about the goals tonight, there was a breast in class. They had to do it properly, they calmed the crowd down.
“It was extraordinary how they moved the ball and it was opened. The movement was very good. Merino playing like nine, I looked closely. If he was not touching the ball, he was invading the centers and making room for rice and Odegaard to make late runs.
“Nwaner, the little superstar, was going to different positions. They just had a lot for them and they were really a class above. Without a familiar center, they had a lot of fire power.”
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‘Made in the Academy!’ Tim Sherwood responds to the first three goals of Arsenal against PSV
Arsenal’s massive victory in statistics
- Arsenal became the first team in the history of UEFA Champions League to score seven or more goals away from home in a Nokau stage match.
- Arsenal scored seven goals in a single match in all races for the first time since defeating Newcastle 7-3 in the Premier League again in December 2012.
- Arsenal scored seven goals in a European match for the first time since October 2007 (7-0 VS Slavia Prague at the UEFA Champions League), doing away from home for the first time since November 1993 (7-0 VS Standard Liège) on their way to win the Cup winners that year.
- PSV accepted seven goals in a game only for the third time in their history by doing against GVAV in May 1958 (1-7) and Feyenoord in June 1960 (1-7).
- Arsenal became the first team in the history of the UEFA Champions League, which had six different scorers (excluding its goals) in a play on Knockout.
- This was the earliest (the 48th minute) a team scored five goals in a game away from the UEFA Champions League since Shakhtar Donetsk vs Bate Borisov in October 2014 (the 40th minute) and one team’s earliest team has ever done from home in the competition rounds.
- Ethan Nwaner of Arsenal (17y 348d) became the third youngest player to score a Noka -stage goal at the UEFA Champions League after Bojan in April 2008 (17y 217D) and Jude Beeingham in April 2021 (17y 289D).
- Through Nwaneri (17y 348d) and Myles Lewis-Skelly (18y 159D) Arsenal started a game Champions League with two teenagers for the first time since September 2014 Vs Galatasaray (Hector Bellern and Calum Chambers), thus making the race of the competition for the first time since they met 200 PSV in the late 16th (CESC Fabegas).
