Arsenal vs Monaco
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00:00Hi there everyone. Matchday 6 here in North London provides a genuine matchup.
00:09Arsenal against Monaco. Both on 10 points from their five games so far.
00:15Both looking for automatic qualification for the knockout stage.
00:19That's the finish in the top eight of course.
00:22The sense of equality emphasized by both being third in their respective domestic leagues.
00:27The Premier League for Arsenal, Ligue 1 for Monaco of course.
00:30And both have got 29 points.
00:36That's a great stadium here.
00:38And Arsenal looking to make the best use of it.
00:43The home record is very good.
00:45Straight away.
00:49Zagir.
00:50Come back aim for Odegaard but it's rather scuffed.
00:59But Odegaard's got on it again.
01:01And it's the way it's been going for Gabriel Jesus.
01:05It wasn't an easy angle.
01:07It was a bit tentative with the shot.
01:09And Majewski was able to feel it of course.
01:13Martinelli.
01:14Here's Marino Plenty in the middle.
01:17And it's just a millimetre or two.
01:21Away again from the stretching frustrated Gabriel Jesus.
01:28He was asked Arteta yesterday in the press conference about whether they were going to sell him in January.
01:33As he has been off the boil.
01:39The tangle too many cooks in there really for Arsenal.
01:42And what a good try.
01:44By Golovin.
01:45The Russian midfield player.
01:48There's Lurk on the box.
01:49And gets a number of goals from the edge of the penalty area.
01:52And he wasn't too far away from one here.
01:56Teenager instead.
01:57Here's Saka.
01:58Odegaard.
01:59He's probably finding a way for a shot when he can.
02:01But...
02:03Probably had an extra second.
02:04In that situation you can never be sure of that.
02:06If you lose the ball.
02:07The whole thing is wasted.
02:10Having shifted it there.
02:14And Scalio comes from Islington.
02:17Which is pretty much where we are tonight.
02:18He played the ball for Gabriel Jesus.
02:20Who's in the clear.
02:21What a good stop.
02:23Well that was.
02:24Really a golden opportunity.
02:26To end his goal drought.
02:30Here's Rice.
02:31Still...
02:33Pressure on Monaco.
02:39Rice again.
02:43Trying to find some...
02:45Gaps in this sort of position.
02:46Ahead of the man on the ball.
02:48See how...
02:50Well drilled.
02:51The Monagasks are.
02:52Usually a player there.
02:53As well as...
02:54Magasa.
02:55Deal with it.
02:56And Ben Sagir.
02:57Gets a goal kick out of it.
02:58Well...
02:59When they play short.
03:00The long one is the surprise ball really.
03:01What a great ball it was.
03:02Gabriel Jesus.
03:03One on one.
03:04The pass actually took the one out.
03:05So it was a super chance.
03:06And when you don't take these.
03:07You really do start to worry if your luck's ever going to turn.
03:08Well...
03:09Is he in again this time?
03:10Gabriel Jesus.
03:11Can he make this one count?
03:12Can he get there first?
03:13No.
03:14The list goes on.
03:15It was a ball he had to go for.
03:16The referee would recognize that.
03:17It broke loose.
03:18Took a piece from the goalkeeper.
03:19Inadvertently.
03:20The first touch was good.
03:21The other touches were good too.
03:23Good.
03:24The end.
03:27The end.
03:28Well.
03:29It's in again this time.
03:29Gabriel Jesus.
03:30Can he make this one count?
03:31Can he get there first?
03:32No.
03:33The list goes on.
03:34It was a ball he had to go for.
03:36The referee would recognize that.
03:38It broke loose.
03:39Took a piece from the goalkeeper.
03:41Inadvertently.
03:43The first touch was good.
03:45The other touches were good too.
03:49Good two, Kera played his part, and the goalkeeper did the rest.
03:55Looks it out, and he stole it then.
03:59Here's Gabriel Jesus, Saka must score, Saka does score.
04:0433 minutes gone.
04:07And it hasn't been an adventurous half an hour for Arsenal,
04:11but patience has paid off here.
04:14And Louis Skelly involved in the build-up.
04:19And they've scored from open play.
04:23And Bukayo Saka almost inevitably involved either a creator or a scorer,
04:29the latter this time.
04:33There's Louis Skelly's work, a forward pass.
04:39Bukayo Saka certainly onside, and he was too quick.
04:45For Bukayo Enrique, who's trying to get across.
04:51And Bukayo Saka knocks Arsenal into the lead here.
04:55And the fact that he's been booked might just go against him when the sub show.
04:59And Odegaard's away.
05:00Has he got the legs?
05:03If he has, he's surely got the finish.
05:05Well, he had the legs and not the finish.
05:08So twice, Jesus.
05:10And now Odegaard has sprung their way through.
05:14Magasa tried to find Keira.
05:17Odegaard was away.
05:19He knew what was around him.
05:23He was eyeing up the angles.
05:25Pulled it past the goalkeeper, but past the post.
05:28We often say that.
05:35And here is Martinelli and Arsenal are looking for it.
05:39Gabriel Jesus coming in.
05:41Oh, I mean an own goal.
05:43Salas who sorted his feet out in the nick of time.
05:47Kept it away from the back of his own net.
05:49But the Arsenal do have a corner.
05:55Still going.
05:58Still going.
06:00And it was the kind of angle that Gabriel Jesus had very early in the game.
06:06And again, trying for placement rather than risking a real blast at goal.
06:12Putting it on target is the main thing.
06:14But it made it a pretty comfortable save for Raya.
06:19For that.
06:21Saliba Minamino.
06:23And Balogu, can he spin and shoot?
06:24He has done.
06:26And he didn't quite get the bearings right.
06:29But it's just another indication of how better Monaco have been in this second half.
06:35So different.
06:37The Arsenal need to find a way out of this.
06:40The best way is to try and get a second goal.
06:43He's brought on to sharpen up the approach.
06:49Oh, that's Salisu.
06:54That's a mistake.
06:56That's Koften the game.
06:57Saka's second.
06:59Arsenal bounce.
07:01They haven't played well in the second half.
07:03But this is a chance that was gifted to them.
07:08Confusion between keeper and defender.
07:12Maetski and Salisu.
07:15But nothing confused in the mind of Bukayo Saka.
07:18How often we see this these days.
07:22Of course, it's part of the modern game, but that isn't.
07:27Habits intercepted.
07:29Salisu can't have seen Habits coming.
07:33And then...
07:36The roof fell in on Monaco.
07:39Quick kick taken quickly and that might have caught Monaco out.
07:43Is it going to drop for Saka?
07:44It's Marino.
07:45Saka can line up.
07:47And it's gone in, I think, of Kai Havertz.
07:49He's claiming it anyway.
07:52It's three for Arsenal.
07:53Unless there's a deflection in there, it's an assist for Saka to go with the two goals.
08:03He's notching up these mega stats, multi-stats in the same game.
08:10Kera was a...
08:13a concerned captain.
08:17And the margin that really perhaps should have been at half-time is now.
08:24Trossard and Marino.
08:30Suggestion of offside.
08:35Certainly some appeals from Monaco.
08:39Verification of the goal.
08:41Nice to have it in the language of the away team as well.
08:48And it's given.
08:50If he looks at his watch.
08:58Arsenal have done the job.
09:00Not quite as straightforwardly as the scoreline suggests.
09:03Mikel Arteta's team were wasteful in the first half when they picked up a...
09:09a 1-0 lead.
09:10It took them the best part of 35 minutes to get that.
09:13A number of really guilt-hose chances came and went.
09:16And at the start of the second half, Monaco were...
09:20much, much better.
09:22And threatened Arsenal's position.
09:23And tonight again where Bukayo Saka has the stats stacking up alongside his name.
09:31And Kai Havertz sent on by Arteta to, as it turned out, wrap up the victory.
09:38So, Arsenal moving upwards.
09:41With 13 points now.
09:43After Matchday 6 has finished.
09:46Arsenal 3, Monaco 0.
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