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'We were aggressive, creative, and had purpose'

We made it five wins from five in the Europa League on Thursday night with a fine 4-1 victory against Rapid Vienna.

The match will long be remembered as our first in nine months with some fans in attendance, while there was further good news with the returns of long-term absentees Pablo Mari and Calum Chambers.

No wonder then, that Mikel Arteta was a happy man afterwards.

"It was a great reaction from the boys and right from the kick-off we were active and really aggressive, without and with the ball," he told Arsenal.com.

"We were creative, we had a lot of movements, we had purpose, we attacked the opponent’s box and we created many chances to score four goals.