Magnificent seven.

Arsenal-v-Slavia Prague 23/10/2007 (KO: 7.45pm)

There simply aren’t enough superlatives to describe our performance tonight, but the scoreline is an accurate reflection of just how well Arsenal played tonight.

Five minutes in, Cesc Fabregas made a stunning strike which set the tone of tonight’s match. An own goal from David Hubacek gave the Czech’s their only real interaction with the net at 25 minutes, after which Arsenal truly dominated the game and the goals started flowing freely.

Walcott finally got his first goal at the Emirates, scoring five minutes before the break. Hleb danced past the Prague defence five minutes into the second half, bringing the score up to 4-0 – the crowd was elated, and there aren’t words to describe the atmosphere when five minutes after that Hleb set up Walcott who scored his second goal. See, told you I’d run out of superlatives.

Which leaves me in a bit of a bind considering that Fabregas then scored a sixth, and substitute Nicklas Bendtner poked a seventh home two minutes from time.

A positively scintillating performance from the Gooners, and a wonderful late birthday present for the Boss (Wenger turned 58 yesterday).

Final score: Arsenal 7-0 Slavia Prague