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Martinelli-inspired Arsenal romp four past Standard Liege

Gabriel Martinelli showed Arsenal there is life after Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Alexandre Lacazette after an amazing performance in Thursday's 4-0 win over Standard Liege.

Handed his second start of the season, the Brazilian scored with a superb header after 13 minutes and then backed up the effort with another goal three minutes later.

The Gunners were then 3-0 up after 22 minutes thanks to Joe Willock's goal.

Dani Ceballos rounded out the victory in the second-half with his first goal for the club.

And manager Unai Emery was delighted with his team when speaking after the game.

He told BT Sport: "To have six points after the two matches, it's really important. We can take confidence.

We were consistent over the 90 minutes and we can take a lot of positivity from tonight's game. The players, when they did all they can like tonight, it is perfect.

"We did a lot of good, we can analyse to continue to improve. It's a fantastic victory."

On how things can improve, he added: "We played with intensity but then we conceded some possession but we kept the clean sheet.

We can improve in how to keep the ball and make more chances but for the players today, they are very tired after playing on Monday and they still played fantastic, it's a fantastic victory."

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