Arsenal 6 Sevilla 0
Gabriel Jesus scored a hat-trick as goal-hungry Arsenal added the Emirates Cup to their pre-season collection, written MARK IRWIN.
A week after beating Chelsea 4-0 in Orlando to win the Florida Cup, Mikel Arteta’s men were back as they put another Champions League opponent to the sword.
Having won their previous four warm-up games in Nuremberg and in the United States, Gunners fans were eager to see if their side could maintain that momentum against the team that finished fourth in La Liga last season.
And they didn’t have to wait long for an answer as Arsenal went wild with a stunning four-goal flurry in the opening 19 minutes.
Bukayo Saka started the Emirates massacre when he converted a ninth-minute penalty after being fed into the box by Karim Rekik. Jesus doubled their lead five minutes later when Sevilla keeper Bono pushed Granit Xhaka’s low cross straight into the path of the prowling Brazilian.
And Arsenal’s new £45m signing from Manchester City struck again within seconds when he slipped past Sevilla’s sleepy defense to convert Gabriel Martinelli’s ball over the top.
Worse still was to follow for the visitors when Bono passed straight to Saka as he attempted to play from the back and Arsenal’s new player of the year was never going to look that gift horse in the mouth.
It took another hour before Jesus completed his hat-trick with another opportunistic strike, his seventh goal for the Gunners. Eddie Nketiah completed the rout in the 88th minute after coming on for Jesus while William Saliba and Oleksandr Zinchenko were applauded for every touch in their first Emirates appearance for Arsenal.
