THEO WALCOTT missed TWO Arsenal goals during their 7-1 demolition of PSV Eindhoven – due to the fact that he’s injured.
The erstwhile Gunners prima watched Mikel Arteta‘s broadside each but unafraid a Champions League quarter-final spot from the Amazon commentary box.
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PAWalcott joined big Gabby Logan and chap pundit Daniel Sturridge to reappraisal the enactment from the Philips Stadium.
The 35-year-old spent 12 years astatine the Emirates, scoring 108 goals successful 397 appearances.
Walcott was blighted by injury for overmuch of his career, with persistent knocks forcing him to bent up his boots successful 2023.
And that atrocious luck appears to person followed him into his media career.
Walcott revealed helium missed 2 of Arsenal’s goals due to the fact that helium was “limping” from pitchside to the gantry.
Martin Odegaard and Leandro Trossard netted successful the 47th and 48th minute, extending Arsenal’s pb to 5-1.
Discussing Odegaard’s strike, Walcott admitted: “I missed that extremity actually, limping backmost [to the studio].”
Logan laughed successful response: “Was that you hobbling? Didn’t you miss [Trossard’s extremity too]?
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“Because you were moving with Gabrial [Clarke] conscionable earlier kick-off [pitchside].”
Logan revealed Walcott was suffering from a “poorly knee.”
She added with a grin: “You’ve lone mentioned it 8 times tonight!
“You asked ‘Hang connected a minute, what’s happened here?’ [after seeing the score].”
Walcott’s workfellow Sturridge past chimed successful with a imaginable crushed for the injury, laughing: “Golfing!”
It proved to beryllium a European nighttime to retrieve for Arsenal, who person struggled for goals successful caller weeks.
The Gunners’ rubric complaint has faltered pursuing injuries to cardinal unit upfront.
Arsenal ratings vs PSV arsenic Nwaneri comes of property successful Champions League drubbing but rash Lewis-Skelly is hooked early
ARSENAL steamrolled a hapless PSV broadside to all-but publication their spot successful the Champions League quarter-finals.
The Gunners started without a recognised striker erstwhile again but dissimilar astatine Nottingham Forest past week, goals were not a occupation successful Eindhoven.
A quick-fire treble from Jurrien Timber and Ethan Nwaneri astir the 20th infinitesimal enactment the Gunners successful power successful what was an assured display.
Every Arsenal subordinate impressed and they were objective with their finishing.
Only Myles Lewis-Skelly volition consciousness a small disappointed arsenic helium was hooked aft fractional an hr to debar him picking up a 2nd yellow.
It was a shame arsenic the youngster was performing good connected the shot – helium played a cardinal relation successful the build-up to the opening goal.
But helium could not beryllium trusted by Mikel Arteta aft helium dived and caught his antheral with a situation that could easy person resulted successful a 2nd booking.
It was different careless infinitesimal that allowed PSV backmost into the lucifer arsenic Thomas Partey conceded a punishment that was converted connected the stroke of half-time.
But the Gunners did not remainder connected their laurels and came retired racing aft the break, scoring doubly successful 2 minutes to enactment the match, and the tie, to bed.
Here is however SunSport’s Kealan Hughes rated the Gunners’ display…
But they took retired their vexation connected PSV, with six antithetic scorers contributing to a celebrated rout.
A delighted Arteta beamed: “It’s precise important but it’s conscionable to enactment yourself successful a truly beardown presumption to spell done to the adjacent round.
“That’s it; that’s the reality. To enactment landmarks, we person to truly marque it to a precise antithetic level.
“But obviously, this squad has done a batch that hasn’t been done successful many, galore years oregon successful the past of the club.
“Which means a lot, but that’s not what we want.”
But helium besides warned: “In football, and you bash precise good today, enactment your caput down, beryllium humble, analyse however you tin improve.
“Because the adjacent crippled is going to beryllium wholly antithetic to this one.
“And cipher tin constitute the script, unfortunately, adjacent if we would similar to.”
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