Gyokeres and Madueke Fire Arsenal to 2-1 Win at Slavia Prague

Arsenal got their Champions League campaign back on track with a hard-earned 2-1 victory away to Slavia Prague on Wednesday night. Noni Madueke opened the scoring for the visitors before Viktor Gyokeres doubled the lead, and although Slavia pulled one back late through Nowak, the Gunners held on for three valuable points. The win lifted Arsenal to 10 points from four league-phase matches and up to third in the 36-team table at the halfway stage of the competition. It was a welcome return to winning ways in Europe after a 2-2 draw at Bayern Munich last month, and it means three of Arsenal's four away trips in the league phase are now complete, with only a visit to Seville still to come. The late Slavia goal will have frustrated the visitors, who had controlled much of the contest, but the result itself keeps their campaign firmly on course. With home matches against Borussia Dortmund and Real Madrid still to come at the Emirates, Arsenal's fate remains in their own hands. The challenge now is to turn this away win into momentum for the second half of the league phase, where the margins between automatic qualification and the play-off round are likely to be razor thin.