Emirates Cup : Arsenal 2-0 Lyon

 

We won the Emirates Cup for the eighth time with a 2-0 victory over Lyon on Sunday afternoon.

Two Declan Rice corners were headed in - by William Saliba in the ninth minute and Gabriel in the 27th - and they were enough to secure the trophy.

We tested Lucas Perri early on as Gabriel Martinelli’s cross was headed back across goal by Bukayo Saka, but the Lyon goalkeeper got both hands behind it.

But there was little he could do moments later, when Martin Odegaard dispossessed Maxence Caqueret, allowing Martinelli to win us a corner.

Rice whipped it in and Saliba was on hand to nod home the opener.

Oleksandr Zinchenko was next to find Saka’s head with a brilliant delivery from the left, but this time our number seven shot wide of the far post.

After Rice tried his luck from long range with a shot that went straight at Perri, Odegaard played a clever pass through to Martinelli whose effort was deflected for another corner kick.

Once again, Rice curled it in and the ball flew all the way to the far post where Gabriel rose highest to double our lead.

Taken from Arsenal.com