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Why Gabriel Martinelli Gives Arsenal Fans Reasons to Believe

You would have been hard-pressed to realise a game was going on at the Nicolau Alayon stadium if you were in that area of Brazil on August 8 last year.

The ground, also known as Comendador Souza, is tucked away between factories just a few minutes from Barra Funda, one of Sao Paulo's busiest transport hubs.

Just 203 fans paid less than €5 a ticket to see Nacional host Ituano that day, with the visitors handing the then 17-year-old teenager Gabriel Martinelli his first start for the senior team.

It looked destined to be just another midweek game under a cloudless sky, but Vinicius Bergantin still has vivid memories of what happened that day.