Ramsey saves day for Gunners with stoppage-time winner

FT: Marseille 0 Arsenal 1

Substitute Aaron Ramsey scored a dramatic stoppage-time winner to send Arsenal top of Champions League Group F at the expense of opponents Marseille.

Both sides had penalty shouts for handball turned down in a busy first half but the game had slowed to a crawl until Ramsey slotted the ball past Steve Mandanda with seconds remaining.

Ramsey had started on the bench due to concerns over a hamstring problem but was in the right place to continue his side’s unbeaten run in Europe.

Marseille boss Didier Deschamps also looked to his bench, replacing Remy with the fit-again Andre-Pierre Gignac with 20 minutes to go, but neither side looked overly keen to take a risk.

Wenger shuffled his deck again in the closing stages, moving the ineffective Tomas Rosicky to the left and sending on Aaron Ramsey to occupy the space behind Van Persie.

Some sloppy defending briefly alerted Gignac to a gap in the Arsenal line but he was outmuscled by the retreating Koscielny.

With moments remaining Djourou whipped a cross in from deep on the right touchline, with Gervinho failing to control it in the centre.

Instead, the ball found Ramsey arriving at the far post and his finish was enough to steal an unlikely three points.