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Arsenal have more than one foot in the Champions League quarter-finals after scoring seven goals in an extraordinary away win at hapless PSV Eindhoven.

The Gunners have struggled for goals in recent weeks - failing to score in three of their last four games - but Mikel Arteta’s side sparked into life in a devastating 7-1 win.

Goals from Jurrien Timber, 17-year-old Ethan Nwaneri and makeshift striker Mikel Merino put the visitors in a barely believable position before half-time.

Noah Lang pulled one back from the penalty spot, but Arsenal scored just seconds after the restart as Martin Odegaard restored their three-goal cushion.

Leandro Trossard added another two minutes later, with Odegaard notching his second and Riccardo Calafiori rounding off a superb evening for the north Londoners with a seventh.

The Gunners became the first away team in Champions League history to score seven goals in a knockout stage match and next week’s second leg at the Emirates is all but a formality.

Arsenal can start to look forward to the next round, where they will face either Real Madrid or Atletico Madrid in the quarter-finals. Follow all the Champions League reaction with our live blog below:

PSV vs Arsenal LIVE

Mikel Arteta makes light of Arsenal goal rush: ‘I knew it was coming’

Mikel Arteta joked that he knew Arsenal would put seven past PSV Eindhoven as he hailed a historic and unbelievable night for his players that all but secures their place in the quarter-finals of the Champions League.

A double from Martin Odegaard and individual strikes by Jurrien Timber, Ethan Nwaneri, Mikel Merino, Leandro Trossard and Riccardo Calafiori sent Arsenal on their way to a thumping 7-1 triumph – their biggest away win in the Champions League.

It marked a remarkable reversal in fortunes for Arteta’s previously goal-shy side, who arrived in the Netherlands with three blanks from their last four outings and their Premier League dream up in smoke.

Mikel Arteta makes light of Arsenal goal rush: ‘I knew it was coming’

After failing to score in three of their last four games, the Gunners put seven past PSV Eindhoven.

Jamie Braidwood5 March 2025 08:01

The Champions League returns and its flaws leave an unintended benefit

There are a lot of elite footballers who still have the Champions Leaguetheme as their ringtone, and some will be actively playing it on the way to stadiums. Familiarity hasn’t dulled excitement. It’s fair to say that isn’t really from the relative laboriousness of the group stage, but rather the exquisite energy of the knockouts.

This week is where football history starts to be made, partly because of how visions of glory can be instantly consigned to the past. It is tension and tantalising opportunity all at once. Through that, there’s a distinctive thought, one even more striking than the sense many players will feel this week of stepping out into great stadiums. A good chunk of this season’s stars were children when watching Barcelona’s comeback against Paris Saint-Germain in 2017, the kind of game that made them first realise the unique magic of these nights.

That was obviously the case for Camp Nou’s current talents like Lamine Yamal, Pedri and Gavi but also stars like Jude Bellingham, Jamal Musiala, Ryan Gravenberch and arguably even William Saliba and Bukayo Saka. Such grandeur and mystique is what Uefa and all of football’s major stakeholders at least think they are striving for.

The Champions League returns and its flaws leave an unintended benefit

Comment: As the real drama of the competition returns, those in charge of the Champions League have forgotten what made it special in the first place

Chris Wilson5 March 2025 06:00

Liverpool, beware: How PSG discarded ‘bling-bling’ to become a serious Champions League force

Ahead of today’s big game...

In Liverpool’s preparations for Paris Saint-Germain, the staff have already come across quite a difference to their last meetings, in the 2018-19 group stage. The French champions are now a team that come at you with everything. They are stripped down and lean, brimming with youthful energy like that of French winger Bradley Barcola. Even Ousmane Dembele, once as unfortunate a symbol of football’s excess as Neymar, isn’t wasting anything.

That marks quite a difference to when Thomas Tuchel stood in the Anfield dressing room in September 2018, and has since told people he couldn’t believe what he heard. As detailed in this writer’s book ‘States of Play’, the German tried to exhort his €600m team to just run more, only to receive the response “why?”

How PSG discarded ‘bling-bling’ to become a serious Champions League force

The Ligue 1 giants have drastically changed their approach under Luis Enrique on and off the pitch and, as Miguel Delaney explains, now pose a serious threat to Arne Slot’s Liverpool in the Champions League last 16

Chris Wilson5 March 2025 05:00

Arsenal's symbolic goal

Freed from their faltering pursuit of Liverpool, Arsenal set about enjoying themselves.

There was much to relish. Particularly a symbolic second goal: made by an 18-year-old, for a 17-year-old, the first time two teenagers ever combined for a Champions League goal for an English club. Myles Lewis-Skelly and Nwaneri represent the success of the Hale End academy and the hopes for the future. Nwaneri became the third youngest scorer in the Champions League’s knockout stages, after Bojan Krkic and Jude Bellingham. Odegaard, with two goals and two assists, was the best player on the pitch though Rice was also excellent: finding the net when offside, setting up the crucial opener, purposeful and classy.