Arsenal 3 Nottingham Forest 0: Gunners romp to commanding win as wonderkid Nwaneri scores first Premier League goal

FIT and firing Bukayo Saka showed England what they didn’t truly miss arsenic helium fired Arsenal to a captious triumph that stopped the rot.

Saka cried disconnected planetary work with a sound picked up successful the 1-1 gully astatine Chelsea that had extended the Gunners’ winless tally successful the Premier League to 4 games.

But the fortnight disconnected had intelligibly done him bully arsenic helium scored the aboriginal archetypal and past acceptable up substitute Thomas Partey for the 2nd soon aft the break.

It was a near-perfect day for Arsenal brag Mikel Arteta and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, rattling his jewellery successful the station seats.

It ended with teenage sensation Ethan Nwaneri claiming his archetypal Premier League extremity to marque it three.

But this lucifer was each astir Nwaneri’s predecessor arsenic the prima lad of the Gunners’ Academy.

If England skipper Harry Kane was watching successful Munich, helium whitethorn person raised an eyebrow astatine the prime and magnitude - 82 minutes - of Saka’s display.

Kane appeared to question the committedness of the galore players who did not amusement up for interim brag Lee Carsley’s past 2 games successful charge.

Even without Saka and others, England were capable to enactment 8 goals past Greece and the Republic of Ireland.

But it was wide again conscionable however important Saka is to this Arsenal team.

The aforesaid goes for skipper Martin Odegaard, who besides shone connected his archetypal location quality since August pursuing the ankle wounded helium picked up successful the archetypal planetary break.

Arsenal had doubly gone adjacent close earlier Saka’s goal.

Leandro Trossard failed to bushed Matz Sels from adjacent scope wrong 2 minutes and Jurrien Timber had the shot successful the nett wrong five.

But aft a lengthy delay, VAR confirmed the on-field determination that Mikel Merino had been fractionally offside from Martin Odegaard’s escaped footwear earlier Timber bundled the shot home.

Both sets of fans booed however agelong it took but the location enactment soon cheered up.

Murillo blocked Odegaard’s archetypal changeable but the Arsenal skipper past exchanged passes with Saka, who glided past 3 Forest defenders earlier smashing the shot past Sels.

Arsenal controlled the remainder of the half, with Saka and Odegaard to the fore

At times Arteta’s players were getting successful each other’s mode successful their eagerness to widen the lead. Gabriel Jesus sent a changeable wide erstwhile good placed.

Forest’s lone menace came from James Ward-Prowse escaped footwear that Ryan Yates headed implicit the bar.

Trossard forced Sels into different prevention with 5 minutes of the fractional to spell and past the Belgian produced an adjacent amended halt to support retired Saka’s debased effort.

The location fans were furious astatine yellowish cards fixed retired to Jorginho, Jesus and Saka, portion Forest players escaped the aforesaid punishment for their offences. 

Ola Aina’s stoppage-time booking was lone a flimsy consolation arsenic they jeered referee Simon Hooper and his assistants disconnected the transportation astatine fractional time.

Jorginho successful peculiar had trod a good enactment with his protests astatine Hooper’s decisions.

So it was small astonishment that Arteta replaced him with Thomas Partey astatine the break.

Espirito Santo besides made a change, sending connected Jota Silva for the ineffective Anthony Elanga.

But it was Arteta who soon looked similar a genius.

Forest seemed mesmerised arsenic Saka prowled successful their punishment area. He laid the shot backmost to Partey, who had acold excessively overmuch clip to interaction the shot retired of his feet and bushed Sels with a changeable that the Forest ‘keeper whitethorn consciousness helium could person done much to stop.

It inactive took Espirito Santo different 10 minutes to marque further changes.

His squad past enjoyed their champion play of the game, without forcing David Raya into a demanding save. Centre backmost Nicolas Milenkovic headed implicit the barroom but that was astir it adjacent for fractional chances.

Raheem Sterling came connected for Saka arsenic Arsenal saw retired the crippled comfortably and chap sub Nwaneri had already gone adjacent to grabbing a 3rd extremity earlier helium converted Sterling’s cutback.