🚨 This new Arsenal signing has been FAULTLESS, but Madueke still needs to improve one key area

My thoughts on Arsenal's win in Bilbao and how some of the new signings are getting on...

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“Faultless” new signing was the star for Arsenal in big win in Bilbao

That was a fantastic result for Arsenal in Bilbao on Tuesday night. Absolutely fantastic.

Make no mistake about it, that was a really tough game. Athletic were bang up for it. The crowd were hostile and the players attacked the game with real intensity. It was a tough, tough night for Arsenal.

But I thought they coped with the occasion so well. Yes, they could have played better in an attacking sense, but sometimes it is just very tough to stamp your authority on games, especially away from home in the Champions League.

Sometimes you have to just battle through it and that is exactly what they did in Bilbao. They stayed really strong, rode out the storm and then the substitutes came on and made the difference.

Clean sheet and two good goals. You just can’t complain about that. It was the perfect start to the new Champions League campaign and it was no surprise to see Mikel Arteta delighted afterwards.

He knew how tough that game had been and was clearly overjoyed with the three points.

Defensively they were so good again. Gabriel was fantastic, as was Jurrien Timber and I thought Declan Rice had a great second half after enduring a pretty difficult opening 45 minutes.

But Cristhian Mosquera was the star of the show for me. He was absolutely exceptional, yet again. He was faultless, as he has been from the first moment we saw him in an Arsenal shirt.

For all of the transfer business done by the club during the summer, so far he looks to be the best. For £13 million he looks an absolute steal. The biggest compliment you can give him is that Arsenal do not look like they are missing William Saliba right now.