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Tavares - I'm so excited for this first goal

It was a dream start to life at Arsenal for Nuno Tavares.

The Portuguese left back joined us from Benfica last weekend, and was handed his first start by boss Mikel Arteta for our friendly against Rangers on Saturday.

The 21-year-old left back wasted no time in demonstrating his athleticism in a positive showing, and capped it with our first equalising goal - just 23 minutes into his Arsenal career.

In his first interview with the club last week, he revealed that he possesses a dangerous right-foot shot, despite being left-footed - and that was very much in evidence here in Glasgow.