Arsenal midfielder Declan Rice Miracles can happen in football

I think you see it in the first half, it was domination. We could have been up four or five. I knew there was an opportunity for me to score.

Assist and even for my goal there I sensed it. Goal, assist and three points, just what we needed.

“I do like assisting. It just feels great. It was a big result. They have been some form and are a top team and we knew today it was business and we had to handle it.

“You looked back at the Villa game the other week when we had a few in the first half. We could have done with the second half being less like a basketball match. It now leads into the game next week and we are ready for it.”

On Bukayo Saka’s penalty: “Fair play to สมัครสมาชิก UFABET วันนี้ รับเครดิตฟรีทุกวัน him. After the miss at the Euros he has worked at his penalties and takes them at different times for us. He is top.”

Declan Rice says he has jokingly nicknamed “horse” by his Arsenal team-mates because of his running style.

The midfielder says the nickname was started by his team-mate Oleksandr Zinchenko.

“Then Jorginho started it. It was so funny, I had a notification on Instagram the other day where Zinchenko sent me a video and I was like ‘what is that?’.

“He sent me this video of a horse running on a beach and was like ‘this is you’. Mate, it’s so random.”