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HIGHLIGHTS | Arsenal vs PSV (2-2, 9-3 on aggregate) | Zinchenko, Rice | Through to face Real Madrid

Football

Taon2025

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Panoorin Ngayon

7.9

We marched into the Champions League quarter-finals after beating PSV Eindhoven 9-3 on aggregate, following a 2-2 draw in the second leg in north London. With the damage done the week before, Oleksandr Zinchenko opened the scoring just six minutes in, but we saw that wiped out by Ivan Perisic 12 minutes afterwards. However Declan Rice netted for the second successive game to hand us the half-time advantage. The match was again levelled up when Couhaib Driouech lifted the ball over David Raya on 70 minutes to salvage some pride for the visitors, but we had already done more than enough to clinch successive last-eight appearances in the competition for the first time since 2010. Our 7-1 success in Eindhoven meant that our spot in the last eight was all-but certain heading into this game, but we showed early on that we still wanted to grab another win when the scoreboard was reset for the home leg, and it took us just five minutes to get going again. Raheem Sterling was wrestled to the floor by Tyrell Malacia but the winger still managed to nudge the ball into Zinchenko’s path. With plenty of room to move into, he took the ball to the edge of the area and blasted past a helpless Walter Benitez to score against the club he spent time at on loan at in 2016/17. However PSV came back looking to restore some pride and after Johan Bakayoko fizzed an effort narrowly over the crossbar following some sloppy defending, the Dutch champions got back level on the night when Guus Til slipped a pass into Ivan Perisic and the veteran Croatian midfielder cleverly sent it into the top corner. That was the first goal we’d conceded at home in five Champions League games this season, and Raya had to be at his best to thwart what would have been a second a minute later when he stretched to tip a goalbound Driouech effort around his far post. This was a much tighter affair than the first leg and we went back up the other end and struck the goalframe when after a neat passing move, Myles Lewis-Skelly nudged the ball through Walt