For the second weekend in succession, Bukayo Saka celebrated a Premier League brace on the road.
The in-form winger followed up his double at West Ham last Sunday with two more in our big win at Turf Moor, but as ever, he set his sights higher, admitting he is searching for his first senior hat-trick for the club.
“I'm really pleased,” he said after the final whistle. “I'm enjoying my football, but obviously I need to keep focused. But yeah, of course I'm happy to score two, two weeks in a row and hopefully the third one will come soon.
“It's coming. It's coming, but I need to be patient!”
Saka’s latest brace took his overall club tally to 53 goals, and there’s no question the Hale End product is playing with a smile on his face right now.
“Yeah it was a lot of fun out there. I really enjoyed it and it's nice to see the fans coming up with new chants and stuff. I just loved it, so I enjoyed it.
The boss has told us we’re the first Arsenal team to win five in a row at the start of the year, so it's a nice achievement and we'll definitely build momentum going forward.”
We have scored 21 goals in those five wins to start 2024, and the team go into the Champions League knock out stages against Porto this week full of confidence.
“I think it's really good,” Saka added. “Definitely now that, not only that I'm playing well, the team's playing well, we're scoring a lot of goals because we've got some really important fixtures coming up, starting on Wednesday and I can't wait to go there.
“I'm really excited. So yeah, looking forward to it and hopefully we can take this form into that game as well.”
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