The crazy thing was that Atl?tico Madrid were well in this Champions League tie until the 57th minute. Diego Simeone?s team had defended robustly. They had just hit the crossbar through Juli?n Alvarez. But then they were not and it was the speed and brutality with which Arsenal moved the game away from them that took the breath.
There were more set-piece goals, inevitably ? for the breakthrough and No 4. It was Declan Rice to Gabriel Magalh?es and then a repeat of the link-up, the only difference being that Gabriel headed square for Viktor Gy?keres to bundle over the line.
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