Arsenal took a giant step towards the Champions League knockout stage as Bukayo Saka 's double helped them to a 3-0 victory over AS Monaco on Wednesday. Mikel Arteta's side began the fixture outside the top eight in the expanded league stage but jumped up to third with Saka again the catalyst.

There are many parts to the new Arsenal but none as valuable as their most reliable goalscorer, and most talented attacker, Bukayo Saka, who once again made the difficult parts look much easier than they can for so many of his peers.