London, Jan. 19 -- : After thrashing Newcastle in the Premier League, Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta is impressed with his team's performance, saying that players were really strong collectively as well as individually during the match.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored twice in a match for the first time this season as Arsenal earned a comfortable 3-0 win over Newcastle United here on Tuesday.

"Yes I am really pleased with the performance overall because collectively and individually it was really strong from the beginning," the club's official website quoted Arteta as saying.

"It took us longer than we wanted to score the first goal because in the first half we had some big chances as well, but overall the team looked confident, looked ...