Saka: "If the team wins, I leave the pitch happy"

's good start to the season continued with a 1-0 win away against

Bodo/Glimt

in the Europa League thanks to a fortunate goal from Bukayo Saka.

In the 24th minute, after a beautiful passing sequence put

in position to shoot, the ball went off the 21-year-foot old's before finding its way back through traffic and into the back of the net to give the Gunners the lead.

Arsenal's 11 wins out of 12 to start the season in all competitions are enough to put them on top of Group A with nine points, despite the fact that they were under prolonged siege from the hosts in the second half as they battled for an equaliser.

Before this loss, Bodo had won 14 straight home games in European play, and Saka knew it would be difficult to break that streak. 

"It was very difficult, and we knew that before,"

Saka told BT Sport

. "There's no way they can win their last 14 games in Europe here and we'll come here and it will be easy."

When asked where his unconventional winning goal came from, the

international replied,

"I think it came off my lips!"

"This is football, if you don't score you get punished,"

Saka said.

"We've had games like that and we've left the game feeling quite hard done by, but you quickly learn this is football. It was quite end-to-end, it was quite difficult. I feel like they were on us for quite a big period, especially in the second half. They did well. That's why it's extra nice for us to leave here with three points because we know how difficult it was out there."

"Overall, it was a challenging endeavour from start to finish. Especially in the second half, I got the impression that they were keeping a close eye on us. "We have to be happy with the three points and focus on Sunday,

" he added.

"Like I always say, we have to keep focus on each game because each game is coming every three days and it's getting more and more difficult, so we have to keep our focus as high as ever and try and win each game."

When asked what he wanted out of life, Saka simply said, "To win.

"It's the most important thing for me. I'm a big believer in being a team player first, so if the team wins, I leave the pitch happy."

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