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UCL HIGHLIGHTS | PSV vs Arsenal (1-7) | Timber, Nwaneri, Merino, Odegaard, Trossard, Calafiori 🙌

Football

Taon2025

Tagal2m

Panoorin Ngayon

7.6

We swept aside the Dutch champions in Eindhoven, recording our biggest ever away win in the Champions League. It was all action from the moment Jurrien Timber headed us into the lead from close range at the far post. Ethan Nwaneri soon doubled the lead, thumping home his fellow academy graduate Myles Lewis-Skelly’s cross. Mikel Merino – playing up front again - extended our advantage further, winning the ball well inside the area before slotting calmly into the corner. Three goals in 13 devastating minutes. The hosts ended the half with the momentum though, Noa Lang scored a penalty conceded by Thomas Partey’s foul. There was no letup in the second half. After a rapid double from Martin Odegaard and Leandro Trossard within minutes of the restart, Odegaard added his second and our sixth from long range then set up Riccardo Calafiori for a magnificent seventh on a record-breaking night. The opening 10 minutes was played almost exclusively in the host’s half, as we started brightly, with plenty of movement in attack. Nwaneri, becoming the second youngest Premier League player ever to start a Champions League knockout game, set up our first chance, but Gabriel couldn’t make a decent connection. Partey then threaded a pass through to Martin Odegaard who sidestepped one defender, before getting knocked out of his stride just as he was about to shoot from 12 yards out. The referee waved away our persistent penalty appeals. Declan Rice soon had the ball in the net, but he had been flagged offside in the build-up. For all our positive early play though, PSV nearly took the lead with their first attack. David Raya couldn’t cut out a low cross and the ball fell invitingly for the arriving Ismael Saibari. He looked certain to score, but blasted the ball against the bar as Gabriel slid in to try and block. The rebound was then fired wide by Ryan Flamingo as we escaped punishment. Within moments of nearly falling behind, we took the lead. Rice stood up an inviting cross to the far post, where Timber arriv