Arsenal won their eighth game in a row in all competitions as they claimed a 3-0 victory away at Qarabag in the Europa League on Thursday. A dauntingly long journey did not prevent Unai Emery from deploying some of his more-senior players, but it was 18-year-old Emile Smith Rowe who stole the show with his first goal for the club on 53 minutes. Arsenal were already 1-0 up by that point after Sokratis Papastathopoulos got a lucky finish from a corner after only four minutes, and a hat trick of first-time goal scorers was complete when Matteo Guendouzi drove a shot home on 80 minutes. A few sticky moments aside, with a mid-game change of formation thrown in, this was not the stiffest of...
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