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\nArsenal weathered storms on and off the pitch before coasting to a 3-0 Premier League win over Southampton on Saturday as boss Mikel Arteta dropped captain Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang from the match-day squad for disciplinary reasons.
\nBefore kickoff, Arteta was tight-lipped as he explained that Aubameyang\u2019s absence was due to a \u201cdisciplinary breach\u201d, with Alexandre Lacazette starting on his own up front. Southampton had the better of the opening exchanges on a rainy afternoon with Adam Armstrong forcing an early corner and a fine save from Aaron Ramsdale as the Gunners struggled to deal with the visitors\u2019 high press.
\nThey managed to break thorough it in the 21st minute with a sweeping move, attackingdown the left where Bukayo Saka squared to Lacazette, who fired home.
\n\u201cIt was a brilliant goal, played out from the back, we\u2019ve been practising this movement; it\u2019s good to see that it played out well. We practise these things every day in training,\u201d playmaker Martin Odegaard told the BBC.
\nThe Gunners went two up six minutes later when Southampton\u2019s slack defending was punished by Odegaard as Kieran Tierney\u2019s attempted cross bounced back to him and he headed the ball back across the goal for the Norwegian to nod it home.
\nThe goal was Odegaard\u2019s third in three Premier League games, and his angled passes tormented the Southampton defence all afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
London Arsenal weathered storms on and off the pitch before coasting to a 3-0 Premier League win over Southampton on Saturday as boss Mikel Arteta dropped captain Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang from the match-day squad for disciplinary reasons. Before kickoff, Arteta was tight-lipped as he explained that Aubameyang\u2019s absence was due to a \u201cdisciplinary breach\u201d, with Alexandre […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-232575","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"\n