Looking forward to watching Nelson's continuing upward arc (hopefully).

Arsenal XI: Ramsdale, White, Holding, Gabriel, Tierney, Elneny, Sambi Lokonga, Nelson, Vieira, Nketiah, Gabriel Jesus.

Subs: Partey, Saka, Ødegaard, Martinelli, Saliba, Soares, Tomiyasu, Alencar, Hein, Zinchenko, Smith, Hillson

Nice to see Elneny back and Zinchenko on the bench there

Hi Steve,

Good to see you back on the forum (along with many others I might add) and I noticed you mentioned Nico, unfortunately I lost his contact details about 15 years ago if I provided you with my email address could I ask for his please? I would really appreciate it. Strangely enough I was always going to ask Bernard the same question but just never got round to it.

Definitely. Bags of talent and seems to have a good attitude.

Nor me. But you won’t, of course, have forgotten that I always have one foot firmly in the formalist school and I hold firmly to the Schklovsky view that the plot is a method of character analysis.

I thought he was the messiah

It's like you've never been away Daz

If choco is lurking, that is exactly the sort of provocation that might draw him out. I'd love to see Kiwi having a swing that that too

Well that had slipped my mind I must admit, but it's an interesting point of view. Where may I ask is your other foot? And is it equally firmly entrenched or does it move about a bit?

Babu's comments were quite entertaining, even if out there at times.

Zurich was his second team.

That very much depends on the location of your buttocks.

Maybe you have changed after all. I don't remember you being that interested in my backside before but whatever floats your bateau mon brave. I'm more about acceptance than judgement these days.

Decent left foot that bloke.

[Edit: Tierney, not Daz]

Perfect strike

I half expected Bernard to come after me for my post about Tierney before the Nottingham game, and was a bit surprised he didn't. Seems fitting Tierney'sscored a cracking goal just now

I see the Zurich fans have the obligatory deeply irritating drummer in their ranks.

Good to hear And to speak to you again. Fingers crossed for rest of season.

Happy for Tierney, beautifully struck goal.

Hope Jesus gets a goal later. He needs it.

How was that foul not a pen?

Plenty of intensity after the goal. Good to see.

He's on fire tonight. I reckon he'll score ...

PSV put Gakpo and Simmons on the bench tonight, two of their best players. They have to win to stand any chance of topping the group. Seems like they might be conceding top spot and saving those players from playing on the plastic pitch

Wow, that was a very good jump by Nketiah. Unfortunate he directed the ball towards the keeper.

We're putting them under a lot of pressure with our pressing. Second feels like it's coming.

Yes, lucky they didn't slow down. We need a second goal to calm the nerves.

Vieira missed 2 easy chances

Likewise, and everything crossed! I can't believe how much I'm enjoying this season as I was feeling so jaded by the way the game has gone, but also never foresaw us improving this much so quickly.

So much to like in that goal and the build-up to it.

PSV a goal up as well

PSV 1-0 up. No margin for error now

Nelson looks inept

Extremely harsh.

What a miss, Jesus

Jesus very unlucky there

Need that second. Jesus just can’t seem to have that touch of luck.

Perhaps I'm unfairly so

No, I maintain my opinion. He's poor.
Should have passed to Nketiah earlier, he took forever with so much space to pass on.
And not able to take the ball forward too many times.

Eh?

The keeper was right on top of him as he got to the ball. He couldn’t have done any more than he did.

I think that was a shirt pull on Tierney

Jesus is doing everything right. This isn’t a lacazette situation where he’s missing absolute sitters.

It will come, my goodness he’s been unlucky. Hope he scores the attitude is spot on.