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USWNT star Heath scores first Arsenal goal and first in the Women's Champions League in Hoffenheim win

U.S. women's national team star Tobin Heath scored her first ever Arsenal goal, which was also her first ever Women's Champions League goal, on Thursday against Hoffenheim.

The Gunners lost their first game of the group stages to reigning champions Barcelona last week, humbled by the Catalans in a 4-1 defeat.

However, they were 2-0 up on home soil against their German opponents, with Heath on the scoresheet for the first time for the club she supports.

A historic night for Heath

The USWNT winger was making just her third start for Arsenal in the game against Hoffenheim and it came almost eight years to the day since she last featured in a starting XI in the UWCL, for Paris Saint-Germain back in 2013.