Arsenal 4-0 PSV Eindhoven: Champions League – as it happened

  • 9/20/2023
  • 00:00
  • 3
  • 0
  • 0
news-picture

Full time! Arsenal 4-0 PSV Arsenal were slick and far too good for PSV. The Dutch side were a touch naive with their play and the Gunners had the quality to take advantage of it. Thank you very much for joining me. Portuguese rugby expert Nick Ames has your match report from the Emirates. Martin Odegaard: “You saw the motivation straight from the start. To be back in this competition is great for the club. “We’re in this competition to compete, to fight to go all the way. We must keep going. “I was eager to get on the scoresheet. “Before the game, you could feel it was a special game for everyone. We have to thank the fans for everything they do for us.” We have an exclusive … Torgrim Svensen says: “When Martin signed for Arsenal I told his uncle Thomas that I didn’t think Martin was the right fit. What whisky were you pondering?” There’s a few on the shelf. Maybe the Sexton single malt. Full time! Arsenal 4-0 PSV Arsenal were slick and far too good for PSV. The Dutch side were a touch naive with their play and the Gunners had the quality to take advantage of it. 90+1 mins: My Dutch neighbours are watching Bayern v United rather than PSV. More Ten Hag than Eindhoven people. 90 mins: Three minutes added on. De Jong off, Pepi on. 88 mins: BOOKING! Schouten cautioned for pulling back Havertz, who showed a lovely touch. 86 mins: Everyone is off home at the Emirates because this game is done and dusted. The stadium has gone quiet. 84 mins: Arsenal are passing it around the the back as the seconds tick by as I debate a post-match whiskey. 82 mins: I am not saying this game has become tedious but the commentators have already moved onto who will play for Arsenal at the weekend. 80 mins: BOOKING! Tillman goes in late on Jorginho for little to no reason and is cautioned. 78 mins: Lozano tries to find a teammate in the box but Gabriel is there to block it. PSV bring on Ramalho and Vertessen, Bella-Kotchap and Lang off. 76 mins: Vieira whips in a corner from the right but it is once again head away by PSV. Rice heads off, Jorginho comes on. 74 mins: The Gunners are just knocking it around for fun. Havertz has a go from inside the box but it is deflected wide. 72 mins: Arsenal have a fresh front four after the changes and are looking to add a few more goals. GOAL! Arsenal 4-0 PSV (Odegaard, 70) What a player he is. The Arsenal captain receives the ball 22 yards from goal, he looks like he might shoot first time but shifts it instead to the left and whacks a low drive into the corner. 70 mins: Lang shows some more skill to dink the ball over White and get to the byline before pulling a cross back but Arsenal clear. 68 mins: Raya kicks the ball straight out of play again. Some first night jitters for the Spaniard. Smith Rowe and Vieira are readying themselves on the sidelines. They replace Jesus and Saka. 66 mins: PSV changes incoming. Tillman and Lozano are on. Bakayoko and Saibari off. 64 mins: Once again, Arsenal are more than happy to slow things down. 62 mins: Saka whips in a corner from the right. It lands on the edge of the six-yard box but no one in red and white is there to meet it, allowing PSV to clear. Arsenal attack again. Nelson does well to win the ball on the left, he picks out Havertz, whose cross is turned behind by Jesus. 60 mins: Bakayoko sends in another cross that is easily caught by Raya. The bloke is in bright green, they really should not be aiming for him. 58 mins: Arsenal changes incoming. Nelson and Tomiyasu are on, Trossard and Zincheko depart. 57 mins: Arsenal are slowing things down here. They do not want to overexert themselves. De Jong is moaning that Rice caught him on the foot but it was not close to being a foul. The Dutchman shouts at Rice who naturally points out De Jong is a tosser. 55 mins: Lang, PSV’s main man, has some space to run into but decides to cut inside, before slipping a pass between defenders to Bakayoko. He takes a touch and looks to curl the ball around Raya but he gets his angles wrong and his shot goes straight into the goalkeeper’s arms. 53 mins: Lang and Dest are having an impact down the left, causing White and Saka problems but without the final ball required. 51 mins: Odegaard lifts a pass into the path of Jesus. He takes a fine first touch but his second sees him run into Bella-Kotchap. Matt Kurton on multisporting: “Overenthusiastic ticket ordering before last year’s Commonwealth games in Birmingham meant my family and I drove the 100+ miles to Birmingham to watch mountain biking on one day, before a Speed-style chase around the city the following day that began with morning hockey, moved on to lunchtime diving heats and ended with athletics, in seats so high the couple next to us asked to move because looking down the stairs was making them feel ill. I should also apologise to the para-powerlifters, who we had tickets to see in the late afternoon but didn’t make it to. Still, four out of five isn’t bad.” 49 mins: BOOKING! Boscagli slides into Jesus from the side and gets a yellow card for his troubles. 47 mins: Lang shows quick feet once more to get away from Saka and then White. He makes his way into the box but falls over inside the area. He wants a penalty but that is certainly not happening. Second half Here we go again! Elsewhere … Jude Bellingham is quite good. Another multi-talented sportsman. Danny Whybrow emails: “When I was but a whelp I played hooker for the school XV - Saturday 10:30 ko and we were based at the local rugby club. A couple of cheeky pints in the clubhouse and then up the road to play left back for the mighty Carlton Athletic at 2 o’clock. We got a shoeing but I remember thinking this was not only entertaining but viable. I then retired from sport at 19.” Tobias Peggs says: “As a teenager in the 80s growing up in Devon, I played age group football for Mayflower FC (beautiful red and white stripy kit), and was also in a swim team called Plymouth Leander (pretty terrible canary yellow and blue colours). Regularly, Saturdays would involve tearing up my hammies on a muddy field, faithfully following the Charles Hughes blueprint of the day (lump it up front to the big man), before hot footing over to the local swimming pool and banging out a backstroke race. Once I remember having a big long gash on my leg from a sliding tackle that must have been over some stones (great pitches in those days!), that was caked in mud, and only became apparent when I was in the water later that afternoon, at the starting blocks... as the blood started forming a bright red cloud in my lane. We were less concerned about health and safety in those days, obviously, and I seem to remember doing quite well in that race. And the scar is still visible, now in my 50s!” Half time: Arsenal 3-0 PSV It’s been a pretty one-sided first half thanks to a massive gulf in quality between the two sides. The game, as a contest, is very much over. Arsenal fans will be loving life back in the Champions League. 45 mins: Two minutes added on. 44 mins: BOOKING! White goes into the book for tripping up Dest by grabbing his boot near the halfway. A needless yellow card considering the situation. Not the smartest move from White. 42 mins: To be fair to PSV, they have supposedly had eight shots (two on target) but they are yet to really test Raya. 40 mins: PSV could be a touch smarter in how they play. They must be full of confidence after 26 matches unbeaten but they need not be so bold in their style, it is not helping them against superior opposition. GOAL! Arsenal 3-0 PSV (Jesus, 38) Just in case you thought it wasn’t over as a contest, it is now. Trossard gets down the left and picks out Jesus at the back post. He takes a touch and whacks a shot across Benitez into the corner. 38 mins: The next corner reaches Bella-Kotchap but he cannot direct his header on target. 36 mins: PSV whip in a corner from the left to the back post but Saliba gets to the ball first and flicks it away for another corner. 34 mins: Raya kicks the ball straight out of play after Arsenal spend a good minute slowing the game down. 32 mins: More good work from Lang down the left, he jinks in and out making life difficult for White. He earns himself space for a cross, which hits Saliba but ends up in Raya’s arms. 30 mins: The camera pans to Ramsdale on the bench and he looks a little glum, to say the least. 28 mins: The good news for PSV is that Lang’s price tag should go up over the next few months if he continues to look decent in the Champions League. Take the positives. 26 mins: Another chance for Jesus. He twists and turns inside the box and takes aim for the top corner but Benitez does well to push the ball wide for a corner. Saka’s corner goes over everyone, eventually hitting Gabriel on the arm at the back post and going wide.

مشاركة :