Arsenal's recent situation in the league is indeed not very good, the last five league games have only won one and one and three defeats, and in the five league games, only one penalty has been scored, and the weak attack has become Arsenal's most criticized problem this season. But compared with the league performance, Arsenal has a good performance in the European League, winning all three games in the group stage, and has already half advanced to the next round of competitions, if this game can win, Arsenal will be able to occupy one of the qualifying positions, so this match against Norwegian team Molde is not just a training nature.
Arteta lined up in a 4-4-2 formation this season, making eight rotations, with only Nicolas Pepe, Joe Willock and Granit Xhaka, who were awarded red cards in the previous game, as the main picks. The goalkeeper used Runal Alex Runarsson, Cedric Suarez and Ainslie Maitland-Niles as full-backs, and the two centre-backs were David Luiz and Schcodland Mustafi. Rice Nelson and Nicolas Pepe played as left and right midfielders respectively, with Granit Xhaka and Joe Willow forming a double midfielder in support of Alexander Lacazette and Eddie Nketiah of the twin arrows.
Both teams kicked offensive football at the start of the game, each with a threatening shot, including Molde's close-range shot, which fortunately failed to be corrected, and Runal Alex Runalson was able to keep it. Although the two teams had a total of 17 shots on goal throughout the first half, they could not break the deadlock, so they had to return to the dressing room 0-0, and after changing sides, Arsenal stepped up their attack, finally breaking the deadlock in 50 minutes, Nicholas Pepe received Joe Willock's cross, shot from a dead corner to break the net, and he was able to score in three consecutive rounds of the Europa League. Arsenal were able to break the deadlock in the 55th minute, despite being tricky, and this time Rice Nelson received Joe Willock's cross. Then in the 83rd minute, flanky Barogon, a youngster who came on as a substitute for just one minute, scored and Arsenal beat Molde 3-0 as a guest to win four consecutive Europa League wins.
The highlight of this game is of course Nicholas Pepe, Nicolas Pepe's recklessness in the last round of the league, indirectly led to the team's loss of points, this game he performed well, in addition to scoring goals, 10 attempts in the whole game, 8 successful, but also handed over the most 4 key transmissions in the whole game, successfully won face for themselves, and is more expected to become the solution to the team's recent offensive failures, but unfortunately the next round of the league needs to be suspended. Another highlight of the battle was the two youngsters Emil Smith-Ravi and Flarin Barogon who came off the bench, the two youngsters who worked together to score the last goal of the game, although the two were temporarily unable to make it into the team's rotation lineup, but the potential of the two is definitely untapped, especially the long-established Emile Smith-Rowe, who has been on loan at Leipzig and Huddersfield, and is definitely capable of entering Arsenal's rotation.