Arsenal celebrate victory with clock message
Left-back Oleksandr Zinchenko posted this photo on Instagram with the message: "Three important points away, keep a clean sheet and brother Gabriel Jesus is back."
Captain Martin Odegaard also posted this photo to the Instagram Story section.
In this photo, teachers and students Mikel Arteta pose with a large clock with two hands placed at numbers 11 and 2. According to British newspaper Sunsport, fans think that the pink lake carries a hidden message that is "11 games 2 go", which means Arsenal are 11 matches away from the Premier League title. "Gunners" played 27 out of 38 rounds and took the lead with 66 points, five points ahead of defending champion Man City.
"Arteta must have shown this watch to the whole team during the pre-match chat," one fan commented. "This is crazy cryptography," another wrote.
At Craven Cottage, Arsenal dominated and settled the match in the first half. Rookie Trossard shone with a hat-trick of assists for Gabriel Magalhaes, Gabriel Martinelli and Martin Odegaard to seal the 3-0 victory.
Thanks to that, Trossard won the man of the match award and made history when he became the first player to score a hat-trick of assists in the first 45 minutes of an away game in the Premier League. The Belgian striker also became the first Arsenal player to score three goals in a Premier League game, since Henrikh Mkhitaryan against Everton in February 2018.
Trossard is also the first player to score a hat-trick of assists and a hat-trick of goals in a single Premier League season, since Santi Cazorla in Arsenal's own shirt in the 2012-2013 season. In October 2022, while still at Brighton, the 28-year-old striker scored a hat-trick in a 3-3 draw at Liverpool's Anfield Stadium.
After the win over Fulham, coach Mikel Arteta praised Trossard for playing calmly and always choosing the right passes to teammates in the box, but should have scored at least two goals. When asked about the Belgian striker's experience in the Premier League, Arteta replied: "It's the smarts in football. He's smart to immediately understand what his teammates want, need, role. what is his in the new team. And Trossard is doing very well in that."
In the January 2023 transfer window, Arsenal spent $ 32 million for Brighton to buy Trossard after being hit by Chelsea's main target Mykhaylo Mudryk. The Belgian striker turned down two other clubs and accepted a four-year contract with Arsenal. Since then, Brighton has left its mark as a left winger or a central striker. Through nine games, he has five assists and one goal - a close-range cushion in the 1-1 draw with Brentford in the 20th round of the Premier League.
On March 16, Trossard and his teammates received Sporting in the second leg of the 1/8 round of the Europa League and then met Crystal Palace in the 28th round of the Premier League on March 19.
