Arsenal thrashed Benfica in their opening Emirates Cup game in what was the most enjoyable game of pre-season so far.
A one-sided affair in the end, deflections helped the Portuguese give Arsenal a few problems but they overcame them in style to run out 5-2 winners.
So how did the players do?
Defence
David Ospina 7
Beaten by two deflected efforts and made two decent saves.
Ainsley Maitland-Niles 7
Had the better first half of the three who started at the back. Solid if not spectacular.
Per Mertesacker 5
Brilliant skill for the OG, terrible pass for their second and is probably only playing so much because Laurent Koscielny is injured and nobody is talking about it one week before the start of the season.
Rob Holding 4
Almost made to pay for a casual mistake, deflected in Benfica’s second and didn’t come back for the second half.