After an embarrassing defeat at stamford bridge did Arsenal at home frisag against belarusian BATE Borisov with a confident 3-0 win.
An own goal and two goals after a corner kick from Shkodran Mustafi and Sokratis secured Arsenal’s advancement to the ottendelsfinalerne in the Europa League.
Londonklubben took, as expected, the initiative in the battle’s introduction, and they also came quickly in front of a clumsy own goal by BATE’s Zakhar Volkov.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang broke through into Arsenal’s left side, and hit a flat ball into the box. The ball struck Volkov on the shin and went in the net without the chance of hviderussernes keeper.
Hviderusserne would, however, also play with. After a trained post, it was only a quick reaction from Arsenal stops at the finish line, which stood in the way of a quick BATE-equalizing.
Arsenal were on the ball, in the vast majority of the time and tried hard to play their way through a heavy BATE-defensive, but they gulklædte guests parerede nice. The belarusian crew had not many good offensive actions after the big chance in the beginning.
Boldbesiddelsen approached in the first half of the 70 percent in Arsenal’s favor, but the red and white from north london still had difficulty playing through to the big chances. It was a couple of finishes from Granite Xhaka, Aubameyang and Mesut Ozil, but the 2-0 goal had to wait for.
There had to be a dødbold to before ‘The Gunners’ could bring themselves in front on aggregate. A precise udadskruet corner from the Granite Xhakas left foot found Shkodran Mustafi in front of the goal, and so could the German head Arsenal in front with two.
After the second goal got Arsenal played their way to a few good options, but had to settle with going to the break ahead 2-0 after a half in which they dominated large.
A happy Shkodran Mustafi after his goal for 2-0. Photo: Ritzau/Scanpix.
BATE got in the beginning of the second half of the game for a chance for a good time klumpspil in the Arsenal box, but it was still Arsenal who were sitting at the game and played through to the best options.
The former Arsenal star Alexander Hleb was after an hour of play posted on the court for BATE Borisov. He received big applauses from the hjemmeholdets fans who had not forgotten his great achievements for the club.
Shortly after the Hlebs change closed Arsenal really struggle with the scoring to 3-0.
Again it was a Xhaka-corner, there was the recipe for the Arsenal, as substituted Sokratis could head the schweizerens post into the goal after a poor action of the belarusian keeper.
3-0-aim burst fight, and Arsenal could quietly run victory against a tired BATE team.
Arsenal is thus with in the bowl, when Friday at 13 drawn lots for the round in the Europa League.
