Analysis: Arsenal 6-0 Lens
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Emma Smith, BBC Sport
Four wins from five games. 12 points, and 15 goals scored. Arsenal's return to Champions League football could not have gone much better.
It peaked in the first half against Lens, and in particular a seven-minute spell in which Arsenal scored three goals and looked unstoppable.
They are the first English team ever to score five in the first half of a Champions League game, and the first of any nationality to have five different scorers.
While PSV, Lens and Sevilla are not the scariest trio on paper, Arsenal - save a slip-up in France - have made light work of Group B.
The style of their group win has also impressed. Other than Jorginho's late penalty versus Lens, all their goals have been from open play.
It sets up Arsenal as a team which every potential opponent would rather avoid when the round of 16 draw is made.
