Reyes 3', Henry 24', Fàbregas 29', Pires 41' pen, Persie 84'
Hoftun 38'
xG, big chances, touches and duels are ESPN's numbers; other sites' models can differ a little.
ESPN has no formation for this match, so here are the line-ups as a list.
It was a simple victory for Arsenal, the result never looked to be in doubt and they can look forward to a place in the last sixteen in the New Year
Again there's no injury time - and the final whistle goes
Corner to Rosenborg. It comes in, Almunia gets it all wrong again and somehow Arsenal survive
Frederik Winsnes is relpaced by Odd Inge Olsen
A final change for Arsenal, and it's a Champions League debut for Quincy Owusu-Abeyie who replaces Robert Pires
It's an easy save from Almunia after good work by Braaten
Update: Panathinaikos 4 (Lucian Sanmartean 81) PSV 1
Great work from Toure on the edge of the D (what's he doing there). He lays it off for Henry - and his shot goes over with the help of a deflection
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ESPN has no formation for this match, so here are the line-ups as a list.
xG, big chances, touches and duels are ESPN's numbers; other sites' models can differ a little.
It was a simple victory for Arsenal, the result never looked to be in doubt and they can look forward to a place in the last sixteen in the New Year
Frode Johnsen fires weakly wide from the edge of the D
Van Persie expertly dinked it over the top of Johnsen who had come out to make the block. And it is five
GOAL!!!
Reyes plays a fine short ball for Van Persie, he's in and must score...
It's looking ominous now, surely Arsenal will get five
Van Persie again fires wide from outside the area. He should be hitting the target
Van Persie brings the cheers with numerous twists and turns - and then Reyes fails to control a good pass, disappointing end to the move
Finally. some spark in the game once again - it's taken long enough
Arsenal look rampant again now. Reyes gets to the edge of the box, fakes the shot to leave the defence on the floor and the chips them on - but the ball lands on the roof of the net
Another change for Rosenborg as Oyvind Storflor comes on for Thorstein Helstad
Van Persie fires in a pot-shot which Johnsen gets down well to save - it comes back to Henry who fires over
Almost immediately an Persie finds himself through from a fine Pires pass - but he blasts well wide
Another change for the Gunners - Ashley Cole goes off for Robin van Persie
Free-kick to Arsenal 30 yards out, Pires tried to lift it to Fabregas - too strong and a goal kick
Did you know the full name of the visiting team is Rosenborg Trondheim? You do now
A change for Arsenal as Gael Clichy comes on for Dennis Bergkamp
Henry jumps too early when looking to meet the raking ball from Reyes, goal kick
George is harried well by Cole and is forced back
Pires does some good defesive work to win the ball from Helstad in the corner
Arsenal play it around nicely, and the oles finally begin - but even that is muted among the Library faithful
Rosenborg have not lost heart despite letting in four. Even so, Arsenal look very comfortable
Henry holds off a challenge to get in a shot from a tight angle. It's very hopeful and he can only find the side netting
Fabregas has a pop from 25 yards, simple for Johnsen down to his right
Another goal in Greece: Panathinaikos 3 (Markus Munch 57) PSV 1. That means Arsenal look certain to top the group
A change for the visitors as Roar Strand is replaced by Christer George
Flamini enters the book for a foul on Wisnnes. It's not his first and is deserved
Football really is a game of two halves, isn't it? Ho hum. Any Brits out there see Paul Burrell doing the Bush Tucker Trials this past week? Comedy of the highest order
Fabregas robs Strand in the centre of the park but then he gives the ball away. It's all getting very sloppy
Corner to Rosenborg, it's taken short and eventually worked into the box - Toure is biggest at the back to head clear
Bergkamp is fed in by Henry but again his first touch lets him down - and he then fouls Stensaas in trying to win it back
Arsenal break quickly, Reyes skips past a challenge but is forced wide. Henry wants it on the edge of the box but Reyes opts for the shot - and hits the defender
Flamini fells Winsnes, freekick on the left flank - it's missed by Reyes and Toure is left to hack it away
Henry ties a shot from 25 yards but it's always rising
Strand looks for Helstad over the top - Almunia reads it well and claims
Have you ever noticed now big the advertising hoardings are at Champions League games? They're huge. Take a look - I dare you
Hoyte does well to pressurise Braaten and win the ball
Pires produces a fine whipped-in ball from the right which Henry just fails to get on to, not a bad opportunity
It's hardly an inspiring start to the half. Let's hope it's not a snore-fest. Please.
The record for goals scored in the Champions League is eight. It's there for the taking - but will Arsenal have half an eye on Sunday's visit of Chelsea and take their foot off the gas?
Arsenal get the second period started
DaMarcus Beasley has scored a 37th minute leveller for PSV at Panathinaikos - but a 45th minute Markus Munch penalty has put the Greeks back in front. So Arsenal top the table
Arsenal are in cruise control, with four goals in the bag already. Their place in the final 16 is assured
There's no injury time, so the half-time whistle goes
Corner from the right. Brattbakk takes and Frode Johnsen is there to win the header - he can only head onto the roof of the net
Now Rosenborg attack. Toure and Campbell get all mixed up which allows the shot from Stensaas - but he gets it all wrong
Pires easily beats Johnsen, putting it high into the right of the goal. Arsenal now lead 4-1
GOAL!!!
It's going to be Robert Pires with the chance of restoring the three-goal advantage...
Now Henry is through, he looks to get past Johnsen but goes down. Was he caught? He was! Penalty to the Gunners
Fabregas goes on a superb run, dancing past two tackles before Johnsen opts to come out and claim before the teenager can unleash the shot
Sloppy from Arsenal, and their goalkeeping woes continue. It appears to be one position that Arsenal cannot get right
Bad mistake by Almunia as he opted to try and hold rather than punch - and Hoftun managed to hook it back past the goalkeeper and three Arsenal players in front of goal. One back for the visitors
GOAL!!!
Brattbakk floats in the free-kick from the left, Alumnia comes out and tries to hold onto it - it's out of his grasp and at the feet of Hoftun...
Braaten is looking lively for Rosenborg - and is tripped by Toure on the left flank
Reyes tries to play in Bergkamp but the Dutchman's legs let him down - Johnsen clears only as far as Reyes but his first time shot is wayward
Brattbakk takes it from the left, Strand makes a fine ghosting run and sees his header hit the outside of the post. Close one
Braaten shows good skill on the left and forced Toure to put his cross behind for the corner
Panathinaikos are in front against PSV through Dimitrios Papadopoulos on the half hour - that means Arsenal top the group right now
Fabregas is the second youngest scorer in Champions League history. And the youngest scorer also bagged his against Rosenborg (sorry, can't spell his name - it's all Greek to me)
Rosenborg are all over the place at the back - at sixes and sevens. And so could be the scoreline at this rate
It's all too easy. Fabregas showed great skill to flick it back over his head - but then he was afforded the time to take another touch before helping the ball ito the far corner. Three for Arsenal, passage assured
GOAL!!!
Bergkamp's pass into the box gets a slight deflection but it still finds Pires, his first time pass finds Fabregas...
It's so quiet at Highbury - they are about to reach knock-out stages of the Champions League and it's dead
oooh a bad mistake at the back and Bergkamp is in, his first touch is not the best and that allows Johnsen to come out and block the shot well. Should have been three
Arsenal finally have what they have missed all season - a two-goal lead in Europe. Surely the last 16 beckons?
It may have come to Henry in strange circumstances, but he made the finish look so, so easy. Again, major question marks over the Rosenborg defence - game over?
GOAL!!!
...Hansen is done for pace again, and Johnsen comes out giving Henry the option of lifting it over the top...
Flamini makes the tackle and the ball loops towards the Rosenborg goal and Henry is in...
Arsenal again seem to be falling into the trap again - getting the lead and failing to build
Hansen is caught out by Henry again, but Johnsen comes to the rescue before Henry can pick up the loose ball
This is better from Rosenborg now, they seem to have settled into the game after a very poor opening
Johnsen is out shaprly to collect as Reyes looked to latch onto Bergkamp's pass
The corner comes in from the left and it's dealt with easily
Brattbakk suddenly finds space and produces an excellent save from Alumnia diving to his right
Henry is inches away from making it two, agonisingly short of Pires' right-wing cross
Henry does superbly, bursting more than half the length of the pitch to get to the byline and cut it back. Hoftun cuts it out, and Reyes then sees his deflected effort from the edge of the box held by Johnsen
Strand is caught by the elbow of Flamini - nothing intentional but a free-kick all the same
Judging on the opening of this match, you could say there is Nor-way Rosenborg will get anything from this game. Geddit? Sorry.
Bergkamp showed great skill to turn and feed in Henry - Hansen is wise to it and intercepts the pass
Henry feeds in Hoyte, the cross is cut out by Hoftun. Reyes and then Henry look for Flamini who goes down in the box - no penalty
Hansen does well chasing an aerial ball with Henry
The atmosphere is dead in north London - nothing different there then
Rosenborg cannot get any possession, they look way out of their depth at the moment
Cole tries to get in down the left, good work by Solli there
Arsenal have looked shaky after taking the lead in the Champions League, surely this time they will impose themselves on the game
So, so simple from Arsenal. The neat ball from Bergkamp caused the Norwegian defence napping, with Hansen at fault, and Reyes just broke through to place it past Johnsen. The perfect start
GOAL!!!
It's taken quickly and Bergkamp plays in Reyes, he's though with a great chance...
Reyes looks to break forward before being felled by Braaten
Pires floats in a free-kick from the right, it's headed clear only as far as Fabregas who superbly slips Pires back in - but his cross is poor, goal-kick
Arsenal now they have to win to guarantee their passage - but also win well to silence the critics. They've started well
Rosenborg get the match started with Brattbakk and Helstad
Freddie Ljungberg misses the crunch clash after arriving at Highbury with a migrane. Wenger otherwise keeps faith with stand-in keeper Manuel Almunia despite his uncertain displays against Manchester United and Birmingham. And with Patrick Vieira and Lauren both suspended, 20-year-olds Mathieu Flamini and Justin Hoyte came into a relatively inexperienced side. Dennis Bergkamp at least returna in attack following an Achilles injury, but Gilberto Silva, Edu and Pascal Cygan are still out injured
Join us live at 19:45 to see if Arsenal can secure a place in the knock-out stages of this season's Champions League with a win against Rosenborg. Easy enough you would think, eh?
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Again there's no injury time - and the final whistle goes
Corner to Rosenborg. It comes in, Almunia gets it all wrong again and somehow Arsenal survive
Frederik Winsnes is relpaced by Odd Inge Olsen
A final change for Arsenal, and it's a Champions League debut for Quincy Owusu-Abeyie who replaces Robert Pires
It's an easy save from Almunia after good work by Braaten
Update: Panathinaikos 4 (Lucian Sanmartean 81) PSV 1
Great work from Toure on the edge of the D (what's he doing there). He lays it off for Henry - and his shot goes over with the help of a deflection
Frode Johnsen fires weakly wide from the edge of the D
Van Persie expertly dinked it over the top of Johnsen who had come out to make the block. And it is five
GOAL!!!
Reyes plays a fine short ball for Van Persie, he's in and must score...
It's looking ominous now, surely Arsenal will get five
Van Persie again fires wide from outside the area. He should be hitting the target
Van Persie brings the cheers with numerous twists and turns - and then Reyes fails to control a good pass, disappointing end to the move
Finally. some spark in the game once again - it's taken long enough
Arsenal look rampant again now. Reyes gets to the edge of the box, fakes the shot to leave the defence on the floor and the chips them on - but the ball lands on the roof of the net
Another change for Rosenborg as Oyvind Storflor comes on for Thorstein Helstad
Van Persie fires in a pot-shot which Johnsen gets down well to save - it comes back to Henry who fires over
Almost immediately an Persie finds himself through from a fine Pires pass - but he blasts well wide
Another change for the Gunners - Ashley Cole goes off for Robin van Persie
Free-kick to Arsenal 30 yards out, Pires tried to lift it to Fabregas - too strong and a goal kick
Did you know the full name of the visiting team is Rosenborg Trondheim? You do now
A change for Arsenal as Gael Clichy comes on for Dennis Bergkamp
Henry jumps too early when looking to meet the raking ball from Reyes, goal kick
George is harried well by Cole and is forced back
Pires does some good defesive work to win the ball from Helstad in the corner
Arsenal play it around nicely, and the oles finally begin - but even that is muted among the Library faithful
Rosenborg have not lost heart despite letting in four. Even so, Arsenal look very comfortable
Henry holds off a challenge to get in a shot from a tight angle. It's very hopeful and he can only find the side netting
Fabregas has a pop from 25 yards, simple for Johnsen down to his right
Another goal in Greece: Panathinaikos 3 (Markus Munch 57) PSV 1. That means Arsenal look certain to top the group
A change for the visitors as Roar Strand is replaced by Christer George
Flamini enters the book for a foul on Wisnnes. It's not his first and is deserved
Football really is a game of two halves, isn't it? Ho hum. Any Brits out there see Paul Burrell doing the Bush Tucker Trials this past week? Comedy of the highest order
Fabregas robs Strand in the centre of the park but then he gives the ball away. It's all getting very sloppy
Corner to Rosenborg, it's taken short and eventually worked into the box - Toure is biggest at the back to head clear
Bergkamp is fed in by Henry but again his first touch lets him down - and he then fouls Stensaas in trying to win it back
Arsenal break quickly, Reyes skips past a challenge but is forced wide. Henry wants it on the edge of the box but Reyes opts for the shot - and hits the defender
Flamini fells Winsnes, freekick on the left flank - it's missed by Reyes and Toure is left to hack it away
Henry ties a shot from 25 yards but it's always rising
Strand looks for Helstad over the top - Almunia reads it well and claims
Have you ever noticed now big the advertising hoardings are at Champions League games? They're huge. Take a look - I dare you
Hoyte does well to pressurise Braaten and win the ball
Pires produces a fine whipped-in ball from the right which Henry just fails to get on to, not a bad opportunity
It's hardly an inspiring start to the half. Let's hope it's not a snore-fest. Please.
The record for goals scored in the Champions League is eight. It's there for the taking - but will Arsenal have half an eye on Sunday's visit of Chelsea and take their foot off the gas?
Arsenal get the second period started
DaMarcus Beasley has scored a 37th minute leveller for PSV at Panathinaikos - but a 45th minute Markus Munch penalty has put the Greeks back in front. So Arsenal top the table
Arsenal are in cruise control, with four goals in the bag already. Their place in the final 16 is assured
There's no injury time, so the half-time whistle goes
Corner from the right. Brattbakk takes and Frode Johnsen is there to win the header - he can only head onto the roof of the net
Now Rosenborg attack. Toure and Campbell get all mixed up which allows the shot from Stensaas - but he gets it all wrong
Pires easily beats Johnsen, putting it high into the right of the goal. Arsenal now lead 4-1
GOAL!!!
It's going to be Robert Pires with the chance of restoring the three-goal advantage...
Now Henry is through, he looks to get past Johnsen but goes down. Was he caught? He was! Penalty to the Gunners
Fabregas goes on a superb run, dancing past two tackles before Johnsen opts to come out and claim before the teenager can unleash the shot
Sloppy from Arsenal, and their goalkeeping woes continue. It appears to be one position that Arsenal cannot get right
Bad mistake by Almunia as he opted to try and hold rather than punch - and Hoftun managed to hook it back past the goalkeeper and three Arsenal players in front of goal. One back for the visitors
GOAL!!!
Brattbakk floats in the free-kick from the left, Alumnia comes out and tries to hold onto it - it's out of his grasp and at the feet of Hoftun...
Braaten is looking lively for Rosenborg - and is tripped by Toure on the left flank
Reyes tries to play in Bergkamp but the Dutchman's legs let him down - Johnsen clears only as far as Reyes but his first time shot is wayward
Brattbakk takes it from the left, Strand makes a fine ghosting run and sees his header hit the outside of the post. Close one
Braaten shows good skill on the left and forced Toure to put his cross behind for the corner
Panathinaikos are in front against PSV through Dimitrios Papadopoulos on the half hour - that means Arsenal top the group right now
Fabregas is the second youngest scorer in Champions League history. And the youngest scorer also bagged his against Rosenborg (sorry, can't spell his name - it's all Greek to me)
Rosenborg are all over the place at the back - at sixes and sevens. And so could be the scoreline at this rate
It's all too easy. Fabregas showed great skill to flick it back over his head - but then he was afforded the time to take another touch before helping the ball ito the far corner. Three for Arsenal, passage assured
GOAL!!!
Bergkamp's pass into the box gets a slight deflection but it still finds Pires, his first time pass finds Fabregas...
It's so quiet at Highbury - they are about to reach knock-out stages of the Champions League and it's dead
oooh a bad mistake at the back and Bergkamp is in, his first touch is not the best and that allows Johnsen to come out and block the shot well. Should have been three
Arsenal finally have what they have missed all season - a two-goal lead in Europe. Surely the last 16 beckons?
It may have come to Henry in strange circumstances, but he made the finish look so, so easy. Again, major question marks over the Rosenborg defence - game over?
GOAL!!!
...Hansen is done for pace again, and Johnsen comes out giving Henry the option of lifting it over the top...
Flamini makes the tackle and the ball loops towards the Rosenborg goal and Henry is in...
Arsenal again seem to be falling into the trap again - getting the lead and failing to build
Hansen is caught out by Henry again, but Johnsen comes to the rescue before Henry can pick up the loose ball
This is better from Rosenborg now, they seem to have settled into the game after a very poor opening
Johnsen is out shaprly to collect as Reyes looked to latch onto Bergkamp's pass
The corner comes in from the left and it's dealt with easily
Brattbakk suddenly finds space and produces an excellent save from Alumnia diving to his right
Henry is inches away from making it two, agonisingly short of Pires' right-wing cross
Henry does superbly, bursting more than half the length of the pitch to get to the byline and cut it back. Hoftun cuts it out, and Reyes then sees his deflected effort from the edge of the box held by Johnsen
Strand is caught by the elbow of Flamini - nothing intentional but a free-kick all the same
Judging on the opening of this match, you could say there is Nor-way Rosenborg will get anything from this game. Geddit? Sorry.
Bergkamp showed great skill to turn and feed in Henry - Hansen is wise to it and intercepts the pass
Henry feeds in Hoyte, the cross is cut out by Hoftun. Reyes and then Henry look for Flamini who goes down in the box - no penalty
Hansen does well chasing an aerial ball with Henry
The atmosphere is dead in north London - nothing different there then
Rosenborg cannot get any possession, they look way out of their depth at the moment
Cole tries to get in down the left, good work by Solli there
Arsenal have looked shaky after taking the lead in the Champions League, surely this time they will impose themselves on the game
So, so simple from Arsenal. The neat ball from Bergkamp caused the Norwegian defence napping, with Hansen at fault, and Reyes just broke through to place it past Johnsen. The perfect start
GOAL!!!
It's taken quickly and Bergkamp plays in Reyes, he's though with a great chance...
Reyes looks to break forward before being felled by Braaten
Pires floats in a free-kick from the right, it's headed clear only as far as Fabregas who superbly slips Pires back in - but his cross is poor, goal-kick
Arsenal now they have to win to guarantee their passage - but also win well to silence the critics. They've started well
Rosenborg get the match started with Brattbakk and Helstad
Freddie Ljungberg misses the crunch clash after arriving at Highbury with a migrane. Wenger otherwise keeps faith with stand-in keeper Manuel Almunia despite his uncertain displays against Manchester United and Birmingham. And with Patrick Vieira and Lauren both suspended, 20-year-olds Mathieu Flamini and Justin Hoyte came into a relatively inexperienced side. Dennis Bergkamp at least returna in attack following an Achilles injury, but Gilberto Silva, Edu and Pascal Cygan are still out injured
Join us live at 19:45 to see if Arsenal can secure a place in the knock-out stages of this season's Champions League with a win against Rosenborg. Easy enough you would think, eh?
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