Vorskla 0-3 Arsenal: Ramsey & Smith Rowe find the net as Gunners claim top spot

Unai Emery's Arsenal beat Vorskla with minimal fuss on Thursday, securing top spot in Europa League Group E with ease.

Match Events

10'GOAL! Vorskla 0-1 Arsenal (Smith Rowe)

It was all Nketiah for the opener after interchanging well with Ramsey, and despite tough pressure from the Vorskla defence, the loose ball falls into the path of Smith-Rowe who strikes the ball into the net with Shust in no-man’s land!

27'Penalty Goal! Vorskla 0-2 Arsenal (Ramsey)

Ramsey, who was the player brought down, calmly slots it past a still Shust and into his left! 2-0 to the Gunners, and they are cruising in Kiev!

41'GOAL! Vorskla 0-3 Arsenal (Willock)

Willock finishes off the quickest of moves after Rebenok gives the ball away in midfield to Elneny, and the Egypt midfielder does well to find the youngster who takes on the Vorskla defence before side-footing a neat finish past a diving Shust for his first ever Arsenal goal! 

Match Report

Although Vorskla threatened a couple of times early on, Arsenal quickly established some control in the middle and got the opener in the 10th minute – Smith Rowe left with an easy finish after the ball broke kindly for him in the box.

The visitors doubled their advantage just before the half-hour mark, as Ramsey tucked home a penalty having been clumsily tripped by Igor Perduta.

And they were three to the good by half-time – Willock nonchalantly finding the bottom-right corner from 20 yards at the end of a rapid breakaway.

Arsenal thought they had made it 4-0 just after the hour, but Smith Rowe's close-range tap-in from a Stephan Lichtsteiner cross was disallowed for offside.

Line-ups

Vorskla XI: Bogdan Shust, Pavlo Rebenok, Vadym Sapai, Vladimir Chesnakov, O. Sklyar, Vyacheslav Sharpar, Vladyslav Kulach, I. Perduta, Yury Kolomoets, Artur, A. Dallku

Subs: Oleksandr Chizhov, O. Tkachenko, M. Sergiychuk, Marian Mysyk, Nicolas Careca, T. Sakiv, I. Kane

Arsenal XI: Petr Cech, S. Lichtsteiner, Ramsey, Carl Jenkinson, M.Elneny, A.M Niles, Holding, M. Guendouzi, E. Smith Rowe, Willock, Nketiah

Subs: Mkhitaryan, E. Martínez, Z. Medley, Charlie Gilmour, Jordi Osei-Tutu, Tyreece John-Jules, Bukayo Saka