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Willock - Bukayo Saka's a special player

Bukayo Saka stole the show in our Europa League opener.

Starting a senior game for only the fifth time, the teenager - who only celebrated his 18th birthday two weeks ago - claimed two assists and curled home a spectacular strike as we won 3-0 in Germany.

Saka is now the youngest player to score for us in the Europa League, and fellow academy graduate Joe Willock had nothing but positive words to say about him.

"He's a special player and he got two assists and one goal tonight," he said. "I'm happy to contribute to the win with one goal tonight, but as a whole I thought we did well.