Winner: Eddie Nketiah
All eyes have been on Nketiah going into this sport following the affirmation that Gabriel Jesus was set for an prolonged spell on the sidelines. With Jesus out, Nketiah will now have the duty of main the frontline for Arsenal as soon as the Premier League returns on Boxing Day. So he would have been nicely conscious of the strain he was now underneath and so to reply within the method he did was very spectacular. He was shiny from the primary minute, together with his motion inflicting Lyon all types of issues. He took his objective in addition to you’ll anticipate from Fabio Vieira’s move and the piece of maintain up play he produced at the beginning of the transfer for Vieira’s objective was very encouraging. Nketiah has a giant couple of months developing and this was a really optimistic begin.
Winner: Fabio Vieira
Mikel Arteta mentioned final month that he believed Arsenal’s journey to Dubai can be vastly useful to Fabio Vieira and Arsenal’s supervisor seems to be set to be proved proper on this proof. The Portuguese playmaker grabbed an help for Nketiah with a intelligent move within the first half after which bought on the scoresheet himself with a superb curling effort from outdoors the field that fizzed into the highest nook. Vieira was taking part in on the precise of the entrance three which isn’t his favoured position and you could possibly see that his desire was all the time to chop inside on his left foot when he did get on the ball. Lyon did play into his palms a bit by permitting him to try this, however the former Porto star demonstrated as soon as once more that he has an actual expertise for entering into harmful areas in and across the closing third.
Winner: Karl Hein
Arsenal’s third-choice goalkeeper had little or no to do in the course of the sport, with Lyon struggling to create something of observe. However each time he was known as into motion to take care of balls into the field and did completely, exhibiting actual maturity and composure when claiming crosses. And he was the star of the present within the penalty shootout, saving 4 Lyon spot kicks to make sure Arsenal bought the additional level.