Yay!!!!

1-0 Willock. Good work by Saka.

Yeah nice - and not a minute too soon !

The opposition have looked very dangerous and the scoreline doesn't reflect the game. They had a few golden chances to score. We did well to get a goal but to be fair, we had at least 2 or 3 great chances prior as well.

We will need a 2nd goal. I will be surprised if this ends up 1-0 to us. I can see a 1-1 match if we don't tighten things up or take advantage of counter attacks when they present themselves and they will. Frankfurt will come out attacking.

Happy for Willock. He almost scored earlier. For a team with so many youngsters, away to a decent German side, we are doing better than the team sheet would have indicated prior to the start.

Really like the look of young saka
Tricky and fast
Showed great composure to set willock up.
With the likes of saka Nelson and martinelli have youngsters with pace and trickery.
Smith Rowe looks lively as well.
Martinez made two great saves.
We definitely haven't played it out from the back as much today.
I hope that's a deliberate measure by emery

Decent first half. 0-1 up after missing some good chances. Mustafi has been fine so far, as has Chambers.

Much faster going forward and energy of team is high. Fewer play out from the back, and it's refreshing. The young lads show no fear.

Well taken goal. Saka with a very good assist. He is a livewire

Strange half. Frankfurt look good, high tempo and getting lots of men in the box and lots of shots away, 14 in that half. Arsenal have looked a bit sloppy at times but have carved out maybe 3 of the best chances of the game and got the goal.
Given the fragile mentality of the team and playing so many youngsters it was vital we scored first and kept that lead in to half time

Saka! Well deserved.

What a player!! Well done lad!!

Here comes the deluge. Time to stack those stats.

Cracking performance from Martinez. Took the heat out of things at the back plus some fine shots. Distribution very good indeed and none of those stupid inviting-pressure goal kicks inside the area. Back to basics.

We rode our luck a bit but there were some huge positives there.

If you didn’t know and you had to guess, you’d struggle to pick who the £72M winger was out of Saka and Pépé tonight. Happy for Saka, great overall performance, but waiting for Pépé to really show he’s going to be worth it. The comms going on about his electric pace when a 35 year old defender catches up with him. A shimmy here and there isn’t going to do it for me. Judgement is completely out and I hope he really settles well and is a great player for us, but right now I’m really not that sure.

Yeah imagine this performance with every goal kick a travelling circus of madness. Probably a different night. You could do without it. The thing is we do play out from the back, but not from the artificial static situation of a slooooow goal kick.

Thoroughly enjoyable game to watch. Please Emery, let this be the way we play in every game.

Xhaka played a very good captain's role today. He deserved the armband today.

Martinez collects the crosses well. And also distributes the ball faster.

We must give Saka more game time. He is a fighter and is my MOTM.

Cracking win in a hostile astmosphere.

Load of chances at both ends, could have been any score.

Martinez, Willock and Saka the stand-outs for me.

Just what was required. 3-0 in the toughest game in the group, with a heavily rotated team. Means Emery can go for much more rotation in the other games in the group.
Martinez was excellent in goal. Good saves and such assured handling, I was very impressed.
Saka with a goal and 2 assists, he was great all game, just the willingness to run at players and commit them made us so much more threatening. We may have spent £70m on Pépé to provide this counter attacking threat in away games and find ourself with a home grown player who can do just that.
Liked Willock’s performance again, seems to eat up the ground on some long ranging runs through midfield.

Lots of shots against but I can’t recall that many that really made me nervous. We missed a number of great chances as well.

Looking forward to seeing Nelson and Martinelli in some of the other Euro matches

Why isn't he playing Martinelli? He looked good preseason and this game was made for him.

Tierney and Bellerin die to play for the U23 tomorrow

Leno has turned himself into an exceptional keeper in my view and I think should stay as the first choice, at least for now. But Martinez looked bloody good and I’m so pleased Ospina has gone, meaning Martinez will be the cup keeper now Čech has retired.

Martinez, Zaka and Willock all enhanced their reputations. However, Smith Rowe didn’t take his chance tonight. I’ve expressed my doubts about him before. Sadly every time I watch him, I see nothing to make me change my mind. Well done to Mustafi as well. He had a good game.

I have always thought that Borussia Munchengladbach were a strong outfit. Tonight they are losing 3-0 at home to a team that I’ve never heard of.

Why did we switch from the suicidal goal kick routines?

Was it because of a different keeper, or would that have happened anyway?

Thought the same thing myself, and keeping Aubameyang on for 90 minutes when he’s our most important player atm seems a little risky. I guessed balance wise we don’t have another striker with any minutes.

Emery seems to think clearer in the Europa; but then the level is that much lower. I kept thinking gosh the Bundesliga must be weaker than I thought, they were so wide open and had a terrible night in front of goal. They somehow lost to that line up 3-0 at home. I think we have a reputation in europe we clearly don’t have domestically.

I agree on all points. Apart from your misspelling of Saka. Took me a while to realise who you where talking about; my brain kept reading Zaha. I think Leno is great and certainly not a problem at all. Martinez played really well but they rarely really got hold of the shots on target.

Also sadly I have to agree about your assessment of Smith-Rowe. He looked weak on the ball and lost it a lot in our half trying to play out of trouble. I’d say he’s still got some time but he clearly needs it and needs to use it well, he looked better last year.

The same could be said of Saka. Lost a lot of challenges. Made up for it in perception and decision making and of course the goal.

Emery out!

Im praying it's the latter and the outcome provides all the encouragement necessary to continue mixing it up.

It was interesting to see where the ball ended up from the longer kicks. I noticed on plenty of occasions the big kick was headed back by their defence and we picked up the second ball somewhere near the half way line. Surely emery can see the risk/reward of this vs what we did against Watford.
We don’t need to play it long every time, but the we’re not taking the advantages that a short goal kick offers, short goal kicks need to be taken quickly not letting the opposition spend 30 seconds getting perfectly set up in their pressing formation. That’s too easy for the opponents to know exactly what they have to do.

Perhaps but that’s a lot of upside and I thought otherwise he was mostly neat and tidy. For the assist for Nelson he received the ball on the turn played the pass that was on and Nelson did really well. Emile I thought generally struggled. I like Smith-Rowe and thought he looked good when he got those few goals for us, where Bernard was a bit more circumspect, but now I can’t really disagree on that performance. It’s his first competitive game after a long time out so you could absolutely give him that.

As was I. Was he being in goals responsible for more variety in kick outs or was Emery?

Also, is wide right Smith-Rowe's best position. From when I've seen him he's been more central or coming in on to his right foot from a wide left starting position. Emery said after the game about his long injury last year and he will need more time. Too early to write him off, the german teams are certainly keen on him.
There is very little chance that all of AMN, Nelson, Willock, Nkeitiah, Saka, Emile Smith Rowe properly 'make it' with Arsenal - but giving them this exposure will improve them and improve and improve their fee

Morning Bern,

I'm not sure he quite at the exceptional level just yet, he's an exceptional shot stopper with great reflexes but his one achilles heel is his inability to deal well with crosses and corners. Still a bit too much of a flapper in those situations.

Came across this in Western Fjords of Iceland last week.

I think any problems Leno has with crosses is often exaggerated. Think of Ospina. Leno is a mix between Pat Jennings and Manuel Neuer at their respective peaks on crosses compared to him. Great shot stopper, fine distribution and more than adequate when the ball is in the air in the box is how I see Leno. Yep, I’m happy to call him exceptional.

What impressed me most about Saka last night, was that I actually thought he struggled a bit in the first half. He was involved a lot, but nothing he tried seemed to come off right, and he looked a bit nervous. That made his second half contribution even more impressive in my book. It's easy for a young player to start hiding when things aren't going well, but he just kept at it and in the end he was the one who made the difference. Extremely impressive considering he turned 18 just two weeks ago.

I think that is a good summary.

Martinez was solid between the sticks. He made the saves you expect of a good keeper. No mistakes, kept it tight. He raised his own stock with that performance.

Soc, has one of the most discerning, critical eye (and its NOT meant as criticism) regarding The Arsenal so when he is that impressed, it says something.