Arsenal news: Martin Odegaard hailed as goalkeeper reflects on failed transfer

Arsena earned a archetypal league triumph successful 5 arsenic Martin Odegaard made an instant interaction successful his archetypal location crippled since precocious August to present Mikel Arteta 3 captious points

Arsenal are backmost to winning ways with Martin Odegaard and Bukayo Saka combining brilliantly successful a 3-0 triumph against Nottingham Forest astatine the Emirates.

And with Liverpool not successful enactment until Sunday afternoon, the Gunners' Premier League shortage is, astatine slightest temporarily, down to six points.

Arteta gushed implicit Odegaard's show successful the skipper's archetypal location commencement since August, portion the Arsenal manager was besides delighted to spot teenage academy postgraduate Ethan Nwaneri people his archetypal elder extremity by adding the 3rd extremity precocious on.

Here are the large stories to devour from a rejuvenated Arsenal implicit the past 24 hours.

Forest report

Mikel Arteta maintained his impassive look erstwhile the full-time whistle was blown.

But heavy down the Arsenal manager volition person been delighted by this emphatic effect to the four-game winless tally that has threatened to derail their rubric ambitions.

With skipper Martin Odegaard making his archetypal location commencement since precocious August and Bukayo Saka rejuvenated pursuing an planetary interruption focused connected recovery, the Gunners laid connected a platter of delicious attacking football.

Saka scored the opener earlier feeding Thomas Partey for the 2nd goal, consigning Arteta’s determination to permission Kai Havertz and Declan Rice connected the substitutes’ seat arsenic hardly a footnote.

Electric academy postgraduate Ethan Nwaneri, 17, converted a objective 3rd 3 minutes aft coming disconnected the seat - his archetypal elder extremity for the club.

Read Alan Smith's verdict from the Emirates.

Odegaard hailed

Martin Odegaard needed conscionable 3 minutes to question his magic wand.

One luscious plaything of his near footwear sent the shot swirling into Nottingham Forest's punishment box, Mikel Merino's header was scrambled disconnected the enactment by the hopeless Nicolas Dominguez and Jurrien Timber stabbed home.

VAR would aboriginal rainfall connected Arsenal's parade, ruling the extremity retired for offside, however, the 2 weeks' worthy of hostility that has lingered since the 1-1 gully astatine Chelsea instantly lifted astir the Emirates arsenic the assertive commencement provided a wide injection of confidence.

The Gunners soon began to spell done the gears, Bukayo Saka probed from the right, driving astatine tense marker Alex Moreno portion skipper marvel Odegaard was pulling the strings, cunningly uncovering glorious, fractional pockets of abstraction successful betwixt the lines.

Read Ryan Taylor's portion connected the Norwegian star.

Keeper 'isolated'

Espanyol goalkeeper Joan Garcia has revealed helium decided to "isolate" himself aft watching a imagination summertime transportation to Arsenal collapse.

Arsenal were reportedly successful talks with the LaLiga giants implicit Garcia arsenic Mikel Arteta sought a replacement back-up goalkeeper for David Raya aft Aaron Ramsdale joined Southampton.

It is believed the Gunners agreed idiosyncratic presumption with the £25million-rated keeper but failed to thrash retired a woody with Espanyol.

After walking distant from negotiations, Arsenal ended up bringing successful Bournemouth goalkeeper Neto connected a season-long indebtedness woody instead.

And Garcia has taken the determination hard.

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