Arsenal players celebrate Henry's openerArsenal are starting to enjoy life at the Emirates Stadium and swept to an impressive 2-0 Champions League win over Porto on Tuesday night.
The Gunners drew their first two home league games with Aston Villa and Middlesbrough - but found their feet in a 3-0 win over Sheffield United at the weekend and put two goals past their Portuguese visitors.
Kolo Toure had the ball in the net on four minutes but the goal was disallowed as Cesc Fabregas' cross from the by-line was deemed to have gone out of play.
Tomas Rosicky's 20-yard shot was well saved by Helton, while Bruno Alves had a half-volley cleared off the line by Justin Hoyte, who had come in for Johan Djourou after he was injured warming up.
Alves also steered an overhead kick wide - but Robin van Persie was even more wasteful on 28 minutes, firing over when just eight yards out.
Fabregas' 20-yard drive whistled inches off target and van Persie had a low shot turned away for a corner.
But the deadlock was broken on 38 minutes, when Emmauel Eboue's pinpoint cross from the right flank was headed home by Thierry Henry.
The goal sent the hosts into the interval in high spirits - and that was evident when they came back out as they doubled their lead on 48.
William Gallas, playing at centre-back, made a powerful run towards the Porto box and fed Henry, who in turn slipped the ball to Alexander Hleb, who composed himself before drilling a low shot into the net.
The Gunners then cruised through the rest of the half, with Freddie Ljungberg replacing the wasteful van Persie on 74 minutes, and Arsene Wenger's troops have now banked maximum points from their opening two games.
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