Mikel Arteta's Arsenal secure a place in the last 16 of the Champions League with a dominant victory over Lens, scoring five goals in the first half.
Mikel Arteta could hardly have dreamed of a smoother return to Champions League football. Arsenal are through to the last 16 and, although the spring will surely offer stiffer tests than a weak Group B that they have won with a game to spare, a run to the latter stages will be distinctly possible should they remain this clinical.
Lens were dispatched brutally with five first-half goals, Kai Havertz starting the rout before Gabriel Jesus, Bukayo Saka, Gabriel Martinelli and Martin Ødegaard all joined in. Almost everything they hit went in, allowing the well-deserved luxury of a somnolent second half enlivened by Jorginho’s late VAR-awarded penalty. PSV’s turnaround win in Andalusia meant there remained work to do. If Sevilla had held on to their lead Arteta’s side would have been guaranteed top spot without kicking a ball, but now another setback would turn up the jeopard
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