Practice makes perfect, according to Martin Odegaard, as our captain bagged his first goal of the season in a 2-1 victory over Brighton & Hove Albion.
Our skipper found the net from his favourite range as he drilled his low effort beyond Bart Verbruggen to open the scoring.
Georginio Rutter's own goal doubled our lead before Diego Gomez pulled one back for the Seagulls as we made it three wins in a row in the Premier League.
Speaking after the game, Martin revealed he had been hard at work on finding the net again from range.
He said: "I've been waiting for that one and working really hard to improve on the finishing. I like to be in those areas, and Bukayo [Saka], we know each other really well, he finds me there, and there was a little angle in the corner there, so it was a good goal.
"It was brilliant. As I said, we've been working really hard to get it, and it was there, so we're really pleased."
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We had to show our resilience late on to see out a game in which Declan Rice filled in at right-back for the first time in Arsenal red.
Martin hailed Declan's display at full-back and how it symbolises the collective mentality within the group.
He said: "An unbelievable performance from him [Rice]. To play right back, probably the first time in his life, and then do it the way he did it today was unbelievable, so a really, really good performance from him.
"That's just our team, everyone is ready to do whatever it takes for the team and that was another good example of that."
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