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Arsenal FC news: ‘Laurent Koscielny’s goal saved my marriage!’ Gunners supporters celebrate the defender’s overhead kick

Birthdays are brilliant and Laurent Koscielny celebrated his 31st in style with an outrageous overhead kick for Arsenal against Southampton.

The Gunners had been 1-0 down following an agonisingly unlucky own goal from Petr Cech as a Dusan Tadic free-kick rebounded off the crossbar and went in off the goalkeeper’s head.

But Frenchman Koscielny was on hand to level as with a strike of outstanding skill, flashing the ball home from debutant, and fellow birthday boy, Lucas Perez’s knockdown.

And Arsenal fans on Twitter couldn’t hide their shock and delight, you can see what they had to say below…