Izquierdo almost gave the visitors the perfect start after just two minutes, only for Jack Butland to deny the winger by turning
his curling effort over the bar with a brilliant stop.
Ronaldo
curled another effort over, but suddenly the tide had turned and Cavani was close to adding a second when his effort was blocked.
On the other side, Willian
curled his effort over the wall and towards the bottom corner, but Ryan leaped to his left to palm the ball on to the post.
Not exact matches
And while Jean - Kevin Augustin deserves credit for his late long - range
effort — which left poor Bernardoni completely flummoxed — huge credit must go to Troyes» Thomas Ayasse, who sent a long, looping
effort curling into the PSG net
over Kevin Trapp in the dying minutes.
The Giallorossi were close to quickly reducing the deficit when Reina tipped
over a
curling effort from Perotti.
Bellerin slid the ball just wide from Ozil's delightful ball
over the top of the defence, before Giroud made it 3 - 0 with a superb
curling effort from inside the box after being found by fellow substitute Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain.
A Kevin Mirallas
effort from 20 yards
curled over the crossbar as Everton finally threatened and he then blazed
over from the same distance soon after.
Alex Iwobi went close again for Arsenal to double their lead as he
curled a looping
effort from about 20 yards just
over.