With a fantastic 5-1 away win against Sporting in the Champions League, Arsenal faced two home games with Monaco being the first one and it was an excellent chance for the Gunners to get one step closer to the last 16. And Arteta‘s boys did it, despite injury vows, despite giving a 18-years old kid a start in the back for and despite missing at least four excellent chances while the result was still in the balance. Eventually, Monaco‘s defensive errors helped them achieve a victory (3-0) on the wings of Bukayo Saka‘s brace and now they only need a win over Dinamo Zagreb at the Emirates in order to secure their place in the last 16.Bukayo Saka has now been involved in 21 goals in 21 matches across all competitions this season 🔥 pic.twitter.com/0WOC9ETc3Z— Amazon Prime Video Sport (@primevideosport) December 11, 2024 Jurrien Timber, Gabriel, Riccardo Calafiori, Oleksandr Zinchenko and Takehiro Tomiyaso were all out due to injuries to Arteta gave the Academy product Myles Lewis-Skelly his start as a left back, while b moved to the center of defense. The youngster, who is primarly a midfielder had a great debut in Europe and even participated in the first goal. Apart from his debut, other highlights from this game can certainly be Gabriel Jesus‘ big misses which could have cost the Gunners and a amateur-like Salisu mistake, which was decisive for the home team‘s win.🚨🇪🇺 GOAL | Arsenal 2-0 Monaco | SakaSAKA DOUBLES THE LEAD FOR ARSENAL !!!!!!!!!!!!pic.twitter.com/fTZqioSRm8— Tekkers Foot (@tekkersfoot) December 11, 2024 It was Gabriel Jesus with two unbelievable chances who marked the first half of the game, apart from Saka‘s goal. While both teams had their chances here and there in the first 20 minutes (Golovin inches from the right bar and Jesus in the 4th minute ), it was Arsenal‘s number 9 who had perfect opportunity to take his team to two goals advantage within 10 minutes. But Monaco keeper Radoslaw Majecki managed a couple of fantastic saves in both those occasions, even thou Jesus was one-on-one with the Polish keeper and saved his team. When Gabriel missed all that could be missed, Bukayo Saka stepped up and scored the first goal of the game. Lewis-Skelly passed it to Jesus, who made a brilliant ball across the penalty box to Saka, who scored from the first try. Minutes later, Odegaard embarrassed himself as he was one-on-one with Majecki and then missed the whole goal.Job done ✅Saka’s crossed is bundled home by Kehrer to extend our advantage 🆙pic.twitter.com/YBjZO58IQ0— Goals ⚽ (@Goals360hub) December 11, 2024 Monaco started the second half much more aggressive than in the first part of the game and it was mainly due to the fact that coach Hutter introduced Minamino. Arsenal took their first shot in the 66th minute, but Majecki was against there to stop Odegaard‘s great shot. Before it was the guests who warned the Gunners a couple of times that the score is still only 1-0. Raya got his chance for a save and he used it after Minamino shot, and then Embolo had the perfect chance to equalize but his shot went wide of the near post. The guest shot themselves in the foot with a terrible defensive error in the 78th minute. Salisu gave a slow ball back to goalkeeper Majecki with both Havertz and Saka close by and the German international intervened while Saka scored his second goal and put this game to bed, before Havertz managed to put one in for the final 3-0.UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE ROUND 6WednesdayAtl.Madrid – Slovan B. 3-1 (2-0)/Griezmann 42, 57, Alvarez 16 – Strelec 51(p)/Lille – Sturm 3-2 (2-1)/Sahraoui 37, Bakker 45+2, Haraldosson 81 – Kiteishvili 45+4, Biereth 47/Arsenal – Monaco 3-0 (1-0)/Saka 34, 78, Havertz 88/Benfica – Bologna 0-0Dortmund – Barcelona 2-3 (0-0)/Guirassy 60(p), 78 – Raphinha 52, Torres 75, 85/Feyenoord – Sparta Praha 4-2 (3-1)/Trauer 8, Paixao 10, Moussa 30, Gimenez 63 – Rrahmani 42, Beelen (og) 79/Juventus – Man.City 2-0 (0-0)/Vlahovic 53, McKennie 75/Milan – Crvena Zvezda 2-1 (1-0)/Leao 42, Abraham 87 – Radonjic 67/Stuttgart – Young Boys 5-1 (1-1)/Stiller 25, Millot 53, Fuhrich 61, Vagnoman 66, Keitel 75 – Lakomy 6/
