Mikel Arteta hailed Bukayo Saka’s long-awaited Arsenal return from injury as a ‘beautiful moment’, the winger scoring after just seven minutes to help overcome Fulham on Tuesday night.
The 23-year-old, who had been out for 101 days with a hamstring injury which required surgery, was substituted on in the 66th minute and struck moments later to add to Mikel Merino’s first-half strike.
Saka raced over to the Arsenal dugout to celebrate his goal, a back-post header from Gabriel Martinelli’s flick on, with the north London club’s physios and sports science staff.