---
title: "Arsenal 3-0 Lille: Timber Breaks Through as Saka Seals It"
url: https://sports23.net/arsenal-3-0-lille-timber-breaks-through-as-saka-seals-it
published: 2026-10-14T08:11:17Z
updated: 2026-10-14T08:15:19Z
summary: "Jurrien Timber, Eberechi Eze and substitute Bukayo Saka scored in a seven-minute burst as Arsenal beat Lille 3-0 to stretch their Champions League home streak to 12 straight wins."
author: "Sports23 Desk"
categories: ["Scores & Results"]
tags: ["Arsenal", "Bukayo Saka", "Champions League", "Lille"]
lang: en
---

# Arsenal 3-0 Lille: Timber Breaks Through as Saka Seals It

*Three goals in seven second-half minutes extended a remarkable Emirates streak on a night Arsenal remembered life president Ken Friar.*

Arsenal made it twelve consecutive home wins in the Champions League league stage on Tuesday night, beating Lille 3-0 at the Emirates on an evening that doubled as a tribute to Ken Friar, the club's life president, whose death at 92 was confirmed earlier in the day.

The players wore black armbands, and Olivier Giroud — now 40 and back in north London with the French club — received a standing ovation from the home crowd.

## A seven-minute storm

For more than an hour, Davide Ancelotti's Lille frustrated a laboured Arsenal attack. The breakthrough came in the 64th minute when Noni Madueke picked out Jurrien Timber, whose brilliant first touch set up a deft right-footed finish.

Then came the deluge. Bukayo Saka — introduced from the bench alongside Martin Odegaard and Kai Havertz — set up Eberechi Eze to dispatch the second with his left foot less than three minutes later, before Saka combined with Havertz and Odegaard to add the third himself.

## Records stacking up

The win is Arsenal's 14th successive victory in the Champions League league stage — three short of Bayern Munich's record — and they have conceded only three goals across those 12 home wins since returning to the competition in 2023-24. Saka's strike was the club's 36th at the Emirates in that span.

Teenager Max Dowman's late cameo rounded off the night, and Mikel Arteta dedicated the performance to Friar: "The legacy that Ken is going to leave for this club is going to be forever."