Arsenal are back in Champions League action tonight as they host Dinamo Zagreb. Having amassed 13 points from their opening six games, the Gunners can qualify for the knockout round with victory at the Emirates Stadium. In fact, a win could be enough to secure a bye to the last-16 stage but that depends on results elsewhere.
Declan Rice and Martin Odegaard both scored on Wednesday and Arsenal do need an uplift in goals from that area of the pitch
Declan Rice scored the winner and first Champions League goal of his career in Arsenal's victory over Dinamo Zagreb in the Champions League.
Martin Odegaard has expressed his pride in Arsenal’s dominant performance during their 3-0 victory over Dinamo Zagreb in the Champions League last night.
The perfect start came when Declan Rice slammed home after good work from Gabreil Martinelli on the left and Kai Havertz. It was the midfielder’s first goal in the competition and Arseanl’s earliest since 2014. In the second half, Havertz scored a header again after good work from from Martinelli before Martin Odegaard completed the victory.
Croatia’s opposition-backed President Zoran Milanović, a critic of the European Union and NATO, overwhelmingly won reelection for another five-year term on Sunday, defeating a candidate from the ruling conservative party in a runoff vote.
Mikel Arteta believes Arsenal star Martin Odegaard showed ‘hunger and desire’ in Wednesday’s 3-0 Champions League win over Dinamo Zagreb. The Gunners cruised past the Croatian side in their penultimate league phase match at the Emirates to all-but directly qualify for the last 16.
Both Rice and Odegaard will likely be eager to continue their scoring exploits, and Arteta acknowledged how crucial these contributions are for the team. Speaking to Arsenal Media after the match, he said: “We know that and we know in the last two seasons when we scored that many goals,
If Mikel Arteta had been making a checklist of what Arsenal needed from Dinamo Zagreb's to the Emirates Stadium. it might have looked a little something like this: the three points that would take them to the brink of the round of 16,
Arsenal will have to be at their best to beat a Wolves side that are desperately fighting to avoid relegation, although they’ll have to do so without one of their star men – after it was confirmed that captain Martin Odegaard would miss the game. Odegaard has been criticised in recent weeks for some below-par performances.
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