Tuesday night, Arsenal defeated Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League, putting up a fantastic Champions League performance.

After a goalless draw against Atalanta to start their European campaign, Mikel Arteta’s team now secured their first league victory of the season.

Arsenal’s away matches against Inter, the Italian champions, or their journey to Lisbon to face Sporting, the Portuguese champions, appear to be the toughest matches in this redesigned Champions League.

The other matchup came at home against the Ligue 1 winners, although judging by the performance of the team that evening, one would have anticipated a far more difficult test from Luis Enrique’s group.

PSG’s difficulties are partly due to Arsenal’s dominance of the match, which prevented them from settling and allowed them to score early.

After 20 minutes, it was Kai Havertz who opened the score. Bukayo Saka then made sure Arsenal led 2-0 at halftime.

After that, PSG only managed two shots on goal, so you aren’t breaching the finest defensive in England’s top division—Arsenal.

The man who started the scoring and the supplier were the two players who received their bouquets from Thierry Henry and Micah Richards throughout the match.

Havertz skilfully met Leandro Trossard’s cross, and Henry praised the Belgian for his “great work” and the timing of his teammate’s run.

In a similar vein, former Manchester City defender Richards described Trossard’s ball as “perfect” in an interview with CBS Sports on Paramount+ on January 10, 24 at 10:00 p.m.

Leandro Trossard and Kai Havertz praised after Arsenal beat PSG

“Great work from Leandro Trossard,” said Henry. “You are going to see the usual run of Kai Havertz. Bukayo Saka is on the second post. Kai Havertz reads it well. What a delivery from Trossard and Havertz gets in the way before Donnarumma.”

Richards added: “Just look at the run in there, the way he is slowing up, then he goes quicker and slows up again for the timing. The ball was perfect.”

Henry then stated: “Trossard saw that, he couldn’t go too early or he would have been offside, so he timed his run and he does that ever so well. He scored a very similar goal against Wolves at the beginning of the season.”

Kai Havertz of Arsenal scores his team’s first goal past Gianluigi Donnarumma of Paris Saint-Germain during the UEFA Champions League 2024/25 Leagu…

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Tougher tests to come for Arsenal in the Champions League

This win is a big plus for Arsenal, mainly because of how they won and how they looked fairly comfortable despite playing a big opponent.

But the tougher tests will come for Arsenal, whose bigger issues are on the road rather than in front of their supporters.

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Havertz is continuing to rise in Arsenal colours, the defence is as strong as ever, Saka is one of the best in Europe and they are doing all of this without the injured Martin Odegaard.

So, four points after two matches, with two clean sheets, should be seen as a massive thumbs up so early on win the campaign.