Eze keeps Arsenal’s shot at history alive with magic moment against Leverkusen | Barney Ronay

Arteta’s side are 16 games from the quadruple, helped by the forward’s devastating strike in this last-16 second legAnd now I am become Springtime Eze, destroyer of netting. At what point does a shot at goal become a health and safety violation? There were 36 minutes gone at the Emirates Stadium when Eberechi Eze did the thing.How to describe the physical movements that generated Arsenal’s opening goal in this 2-0 defeat of Bayer Leverkusen? The shotgun pirouette. The swivel‑batter. The cage‑ball roundhouse. It was also a pianoforte kind of goal, the power in the finish preceded by a lovely, gentle bit of interplay from Declan Rice and Martín Zubimendi. Continue reading...