Emirates Stadium side thump Magpies.
Arsenal romped past Newcastle United to secure a well deserved win over in-form Newcastle United.
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Santi Cazorla and Olivier Giroud grabbed a brace each to hand Arsene Wenger a morale boosting win.
Wojciech Szczesny 7
Decent save in the first half and not at fault for goal.
Mathieu Debuchy – 7
Adapted well to life at centre-back
Kieran Gibbs – 7
Composed display
Per Mertesacker – 7
Relatively smooth performance from the German,
Hector Bellerin – 8
Improving defensively and superb going forward
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain – 8
A real livewire, superb performance from the England man.
Alexis Sanchez – 9
Chilean was at times unplayable and frightened the life out of Newcastle United’s defence.
Santi Cazorla – 9
Spaniard was the impetus for most of Arsenal’s lightning fast attacks.
Mathieu Flamini – 7
The usual late challenge or two but on the whole did well.
Danny Welbeck – 7
Was unlucky to see an effort ruled out but was the least effective of the Gunners attack.
Olivier Giroud – 9
Frenchman powered home a header and
Subs
Lukas Podolski