Starting eleven is hard to come by at Arsenal, you have to be on top of your game week in week out to find yourself in first choice under Mikel Arteta. A bit of complacency and you find yourself on the back foot, and with Leandro Trossard that happened despite his high-intensity performances – the Belgian struggled to start with Gabriel Martinelli holding down the left flank in front of him.
Gabriel Jesus and Eddie Nketiah, ahead of him in the pecking order at No. 9th place – opportunities were hard to come by. But with both sidelined for yesterday’s Champions League game against Sevilla – Trossard was given a chance and he took it. He finished Jorginho’s brilliant line-breaking pass that went to Bukayo Saka, who shot to Trossard, who put it into the net.
“I always have to be on, to be honest,” he said when asked how demanding it can be to play in different places.
“I always have to know my role. But I like it, I never back down from anything. If you put me as a striker, winger or number 10, I always think I play my game. He (Arteta) knows that I also like to change positions during the game. We also have those types of players and it creates a bit of chaos for the opposing team. i like it I am really happy.
– Scoring a goal is always a great feeling, but when you do it in the Champions League, it’s always an even better feeling. That put us in the lead and I think we played brilliantly.The Gunners went into the game on a two-match losing streak, beating West Ham in the Carabao Cup before suffering an embarrassing defeat against Newcastle in the Premier League on Saturday. Trossard insists the players were never worried about a hat-trick of defeats when they took control of Group B.
“We never worry because we know our quality and we knew we had to come back. I think that made us start the game so aggressively and when the goal came it was a help for us. From that moment we controlled the game. “We are always confident. We want to win every game and that is how we approach them. We will try to win the next two games as well.
“The manager just wanted us to attack when we had the ball, to get the ball to the full-backs. Bukayo and Gabi (Martinelli) are so good one-on-one – that’s when you see you can create a lot of chances. . We managed it so well.”
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