Tuesday night's 7-1 victory over PSV Eindhoven saw six of our stars find the net and Mikel Arteta is keen to take that form into this weekend's trip to Manchester United.
Jurrien Timber, Ethan Nwaneri, Mikel Merino, Martin Odegaard, Leandro Trossard and Riccardo Calafiori all got on the scoresheet at Philips Stadion on a historic night in the Champions League.
The victory over PSV came off the back of two matches without a win, a 1-0 loss at home to West Ham United and a 0-0 draw at Nottingham Forest. But Arteta believes Tuesday night's heroics lifted the mood in the camp as we prepare to go again at Old Trafford on Sunday.
He said: "It was a great night for us in an important competition we have a lot of hope in. The manner of the way we did it lifted everybody, but that is in the past, unfortunately.
"It is about what we do today, the preparation for tomorrow and trying to replicate a great performance."
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As we approach the business end of the 2024/25 campaign, our manager is eager to see attacking intent from all over the pitch, not just our attackers.
"We need to look at threats from all areas," Mikel added in his pre-match press conference. "We lost very important wingers that were providing a lot for us in that final third and we’re looking to explore other options as well. The team has this capacity to adapt, we have a lot of players with great football intelligence to understand when to move and why, especially to do certain things.
"The other day certainly flowed and we saw actions and combinations that are very difficult to defend."
Two defenders bookended the win against PSV, with Juriren's back-post header opening the scoring and Riccardo rounding proceedings off with a fine right-footed finish. It's not the first time our Italian international has shown his attacking prowess this campaign, with a wonder strike at Manchester City and a crucial winner at Wolves.
The boss admits Calafiori's impressive talents going forward have caught his eye and hopes he can continue to be a threat for the remainder of the season.
He said: "He certainly has that capacity to flow in areas that, for a defender, is very unusual, that was something that really caught my eye.
"The other one is that he is very unpredictable, sometimes chaotic, and that can be very difficult as well from the position. That eye for goal, especially from open play, I didn’t have that understanding of the things he could do, but you see it day-to-day in training that he is capable of creating things."
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