Arsenal 2-0 FC Basel: Theo Walcott streak proceeds as his team move on to winning the champions league

Theo Walcott's streak continues as Arsenal got a 2-0 Champions League win over Basel. 


Walcott, who has scored 5 objectives in 7 matches, made to objectives inside 7 and 26 minutes in only 45 minutes. 

Alexis Sanchez's endeavor were declined by Basel goalkeeper, Tomas Vaclik, Arsene Wenger's group stayed telling as they go up a Premier League disassembling of Chelsea with their first Group A win in this present season's European rivalry. 

Nacho Monreal shook Vaclik with an endeavor vaclik spared yet he was beaten later on when Sanchez - chose on the left by Santi Cazorla flung in a ball that Walcott's longing to meet made for the most straightforward of headers. 

Marek Suchy alflashed his very own header wide as Basel briefly undermined however Sanchez was pulling the strings and Walcott soon had a second, steadying himself after a one-two with the Chilean and boring low into the far corner 

Basel were dazed as Arsenal dizzied with rate of thought and play, and a move that blew the mind soon after the half-hour imprint ought to have brought their third. Walcott and Hector Bellerin were included as yellow shirts surged upfield, yet Cazorla's hidden ball was dinked directly at Vaclik by Sanchez. 

Bellerin and after that Mesut Ozil were frustrated as the Gunners kept on exciting and the Germany universal had another chance at the back post, rather volleying into the side-mesh, before the break at long last brought Basel help. 

Weapons store's amusement lost a little ease after the interim yet Alex Iwobi ought to have improved recently before the hour-mark when he arrowed an exertion wide of the post. 

Ospina, favored over Cech in Europe, was at long last made to work not long after when he was compelled to tip Birkir Bjarnason's first-time shot over his crossbar yet his Basel partners never truly undermined an impossible fightback. 

Sanchez was liable of spurning a great chance as he guided Walcott's cross wide and for all his vision and industry, an objective stayed tricky, another late Vaclik quit inciting a disappointed kick at the promoting sheets. 

In any case, the win had for some time been secured and Wenger's desire of advancing into the knockout stage as gathering victors in his point of interest twentieth year - recollections of late slip-ups still crude - stays on course

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