Arsenal ease past Dinamo Zagreb to all but confirm Champions League knockout place

Declan Rice set the tone with a sweet strike inside two minutes to score the club’s earliest in the Champions League in over a decade when Yaya Sanogo netted against Borussia Dortmund after 72 seconds

Arsenal's Martin Odegaard (centre) celebrates with team-mates after scoring Arsenal's third and final goal of the evening

Champions League: Arsenal 3-0 Dinamo Zagreb 

New swimming trunks will be on the packing list for the Arsenal kitman next month after this win all but secured the club’s progress to the next round of the Champions League and facilitates a fixture gap that allows them to jet out to Dubai for some warm-weather training. A point away to winless Girona will seal the deal next Wednesday but they can afford a defeat in Spain and still expect to comfortably qualify for the last 16 in March, without the need for a February play-off.