PSV vs Arsenal LIVE: Champions League result and reaction as Gunners make history with huge win
PSV 1-7 Arsenal: An extraordinary night saw the Gunners became the first away team in Champions League history to score seven goals in a knockout stage match
Arsenal have more than one foot in the Champions League quarter-finals after scoring seven goals in an extraordinary away win at hapless PSV Eindhoven.
The Gunners have struggled for goals in recent weeks - failing to score in three of their last four games - but Mikel Arteta’s side sparked into life in a devastating 7-1 win.
Goals from Jurrien Timber, 17-year-old Ethan Nwaneri and makeshift striker Mikel Merino put the visitors in a barely believable position before half-time.
Noah Lang pulled one back from the penalty spot, but Arsenal scored just seconds after the restart as Martin Odegaard restored their three-goal cushion.
Leandro Trossard added another two minutes later, with Odegaard notching his second and Riccardo Calafiori rounding off a superb evening for the north Londoners with a seventh.
The Gunners became the first away team in Champions League history to score seven goals in a knockout stage match and next week’s second leg at the Emirates is all but a formality.
Arsenal can start to look forward to the next round, where they will face either Real Madrid or Atletico Madrid in the quarter-finals. Follow all the Champions League reaction with our live blog below:
PSV 1-3 Arsenal
45 mins
Better from PSV as the half approaches an end, with the hosts knocking it around the Arsenal box before Malacia swings in a great cross that de Jong heads over.
There’ll be four minutes of added time here.
PSV 1-3 Arsenal
44 mins
What a first half this is.
It’s great work from Rice again as he works the space on the left and drills a low effort that forces a great save from Benitez to tip it past the post.
GOAL! PSV 1-3 Arsenal
43 mins
GOAL!
Noa Lang steps up and it’s an emphatic effort, blasted into the right-hand side past a still Raya.
PENALTY TO PSV! PSV 0-3 Arsenal
41 mins
Arsenal were looking exceptionally comfortable but they’ve given the hosts a way back into it!
Perisic wins a corner and when the delivery comes in, Partey drags down de Jong, with his hand and arm around the Dutchman’s neck.
It’s given and Partey is booked.
PSV 0-3 Arsenal
38 mins
PSV have had their first meaningful attack since hitting the bar and conceding three but it comes to nothing. It hasn’t clicked for that front three at all.
PSV 0-3 Arsenal
Tie over? It feels that way. Everything has gone Arsenal's way, from PSV missing an open goal to Lewis-Skelly avoiding a second yellow card to some utterly hapless PSV defending allowing Mikel Merino to make it 3-0.
GOAL GIVEN! PSV 0-3 Arsenal
33 mins
There’s a fairly lengthy VAR check and the goal is given! A nightmare from PSV.
Lewis-Skelly comes off for Riccardo Calafiori. Probably sensible from Arteta that.
GOAL! PSV 0-3 Arsenal
31 mins
GOAL! That could be the tie done already.
It’s a messy goal but they’ll take it!
Timber’s shot is blocked and then he’s tackled, and there are three bodies on the floor, two of which are PSV players.
Timber wrestles for the ball on the floor and gets up before trying to put another shot in, and he falls again before the PSV player fails to clear and the ball rolls to Merino, who is about five yards out and simply taps it past Benitz into the corner.
There is a VAR check though, as Merino had strayed offside. It all depends on whether the action form the PSV player is considered a deliberate action to play the ball.
PSV 0-2 Arsenal
27 mins
There’s potential trouble for Lewis-Skelly here as he flies into another mis-timed challenge, but he avoids the booking.
Mark Clattenburg on comms says that it wasn’t enough for a second booking, though he definitely would’ve received a booking if he hadn’t already been booked. A strange scenario.
He’s fortunate nonetheless, and nothing comes of the free-kick.
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