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Arteta delighted with Arsenal goalscorers Trossard and Zinchenko after victory over Burnley

Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta hailed goalscorers Leandro Trossard and Oleks Zinchenko for victory over Burnley.

The Gunners won 3-1 on the day.

On Zinchenko, Arteta said: "I was very happy with him. Especially against these teams, the fluidity and threat he gives, the way he progresses the ball, the spaces that he occupies and gets avaliable for other players I think is critical. His defending part I really liked today, how committed he was in every defending action, the goal he scored is a really good example of how he's living the game when the ball is far from him that's why he's first on the ball, that's why he scores the goal, so that's what we need from him."

On Trossard's goal and it being Arsenal's 1,000th at Emirates Stadium, he continued: "You have to put your body over the line if it's necessary and he's done it, and it's the 1000th goal at Emirates Stadium, a beautiful number, so I'm very happy with him. I think every time you ask him to play, whether it's wide or as a nine, it flows and he's a real threat, so I'm really happy with him.

"I think that he connects everybody, you know. He's so intelligent. He moves in the spaces in ways that attract people and generates spaces and options for people and today he has done it really well because it was very difficult as the spaces were so small to attack and he gave us a lot of threat and possibilities to connect and find spaces for us."

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