Nuno Espirito Santo names the three Arsenal players who ‘killed’ Nottingham Forest

Nuno Espirito Santo highlighted 3 players who were captious to Arsenal’s 3-0 Premier League triumph against Nottingham Forest connected Saturday.

After a tally of conscionable 2 wins successful 7 games earlier the planetary break, the Gunners looked backmost to their champion astatine the Emirates against Forest.

Bukayo Saka and Thomas Partey recovered the backmost of the nett earlier Ethan Nwaneri scored his archetypal top-flight extremity precocious on.

The lucifer was tipped to beryllium a adjacent encounter, arsenic the sides were level connected points up of kick-off with Forest enjoying a singular commencement to the season.

But Santo’s broadside were precise overmuch 2nd champion connected the day, suffering lone their 3rd league decision of the campaign.

The Forest manager had nary qualms implicit the result, admitting his squad could not grip Arsenal’s rampant attack, pinpointing the performances of 3 players.

‘They played good and we didn’t play truthful well. Arsenal were the amended team,’ Santo said post-match.

‘Quality players erstwhile they are progressive successful the crippled it becomes harder. [Martin] Odegaard is 1 of them.

‘[Leandro] Trossard created problems and Saka created problems. You cannot springiness clip to players to determine truthful freely. Second fractional we became much pressing but they killed america with the 2nd and 3rd goals.

‘There’s not overmuch to say. We person to amended due to the fact that we did a batch of atrocious things – particularly with the defending.

‘Losing is ever precise painful. We came up short.’

Odegaard was making his archetypal commencement since suffering a lengthy ankle wounded successful September and teed up Saka’s opener, overmuch to the delight of Mikel Arteta.

‘I worth that [Odegaard’s performance] due to the fact that it’s precise hard to bash aft 5 oregon six weeks out,’ the Arsenal brag said.

‘It doesn’t astonishment maine due to the fact that of however helium looks each day. When he’s connected the squad you tin consciousness thing different. It’s hard to enactment a digit connected what but he’s there.’

Arteta volition beryllium hoping for much of the aforesaid successful Arsenal’s adjacent lucifer connected Tuesday erstwhile they look Sporting Lisbon successful the Champions League.

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