Match report – Player ratings – By the numbers – Video A first Champions League season came off the back of our best 45 minutes of the season so far, and the scoreline in no way reflected how dominant Arsenal were in that first period. The manager made two changes from the team that beat Chelsea as David Ospina came in for Petr Cech, while Granit Xhaka got a start ahead of the injured Francis Coquelin. Picking more or less the same team that had blitzed Diego Costa into a fury (haha) was a statement of intent, and that was reflected in performance. We had 12 attempts on goal, 8 of them on target, and by the time the half had ended we should have been out of sight. Only...
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