Arsenal Put Five Past Leeds But Lose Ødegaard And Saka To Injury

It was an juncture that was transcended by personification who did not play but had truthful overmuch much to chew complete from an Arsenal constituent of view. The nine showed disconnected their caller signing, Eberechi Eze, parading him beforehand and screening a invited video for him astatine half-time.

As nan goals flew successful to conclusion Leeds, nan cutaways to him successful nan stands were inevitable. Eze’s signing has nan consciousness of a coup and not only because Arsenal, successful nan vernacular of nan trade, decently did complete Tottenham to onshore him.

Eze clapped arsenic Jurriën Timber opened nan scoring pursuing a corner, Bukayo Saka made it 2-0 and Viktor Gyökeres opened his relationship for nan nine pinch nan third. There would beryllium different extremity for Timber pursuing different corner; Arsenal’s excellence successful this area endures. And different 1 for Gyökeres from nan punishment spot astatine nan very end.

And yet erstwhile it was over, it was yet different caller boy whose sanction was connected everybody’s lips. Max Dowman sewage connected for his first Arsenal quality successful a competitory crippled arsenic a 64th infinitesimal substitute and nan crowd would beryllium signing his sanction arsenic he made a fewer soft and fearless runs pinch nan ball. Remember, Dowman is conscionable 15. He has not moreover started Year 11 astatine schoolhouse yet.

Bukayo Saka looks dejected aft sustaining what looked for illustration a hamstring injury. Photograph: David Klein/Reuters

Playing connected nan correct wing, Dowman besides flashed a changeable precocious from nan separator of nan area and it was him winning nan punishment astatine nan death, going down aft nan tiniest of touches from Anton Stach. Is Dowman taking GCSE drama? The whiff of thing untoward removed very small of nan radiance from his performance.

It was a convoy aft Timber’s first extremity connected 34 minutes; Leeds started stoutly only to beryllium swatted aside. But nan celebratory aerial was not total. Far from it. Mikel Arteta had not been capable to prime Ben White because of an injury, pinch Kai Havertz and Gabriel Jesus besides out. He would suffer nan captain, Martin Ødegaard, and Saka to further problems, which is simply a agelong measurement from being perfect erstwhile Arsenal’s adjacent crippled is astatine Liverpool adjacent Sunday.

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