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#1 The Nicolas Pepe show
It’s been a tough start to life in England for Nicolas Pepe. The £72million signing arrived in London with high expectations and a massive transfer fee to match.
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After only showing a few glimpses of brilliance this season, many were starting to write off the 24-year-old, comparing him with the likes of Daniel James. However, when Arsenal truly needed him, the Ivorian stepped up.
When he came on in the 75th minute, his team were struggling to string together three passes in the final third. Pepe changed that.
He added a new intensity in attack, dribbling past players and looking to play at a faster pace. The exclamation point of his game-changing cameo was the conversion of two long-range free-kicks.
Pepe took two of them and smashed both past Silva, to turn the game completely on its head. Perhaps we can mark tonight as the night Pepe announced himself to English football.
