Arsenal 3-0 BATE Borisov: Europa League 32 last, second leg – as it happened | Soccer

Unai Emery talks to BT Sport: "The result is good. We are progressing and our mentality was good for this game. This competition is important to us and the result of the first match was not good. The team has done very well to come back. We spoke this morning and in the locker room before the match: if we score, continue. If we score a second goal, keep going. If we score a third goal, continue. We need this mentality. The players have made the game plan we want. "

Some post-match platitudes of Arsenal scorers. "It was better than last week," begins Shkodran Mustafi. "We have done well. We showed that we wanted to play our game and score our goals. We work on our sets and it was good that it pays off. Sokratis Papastathopoulos adds: "We are happy and we are now turning to the next match. The Europa League is very important to us. "

And that's it! Arsenal is until the last game of the Europa League, Unai Emery's dream of a fourth title still alive. The gunners were very professional tonight. They attacked earlier and after surviving a few scares during a brief period when BATE threatened an away goal, which allowed the limited opponents to distance them away. "Your Portuguese-speaking readers could come to terms with the fact that" Arsenal bate Borisov "means" Arsenal beats Borisov, "notes Peter Oh.

90 min +2: Dubajic shoulder Monreal on the ground. It is a lack of variety garden, but Xhaka strongly opposes and rushes at full speed, booting Dubajic as Scrappy Doo. For the sake of God, man, you won the match and there are about ten seconds left! A totally disproportionate response to not much. He is lucky that the referee does not reserve it at least, because he is quite in the official grid, swearing like a billy-o.

90 min: There will be two more minutes. One goal per minute, and BATE scored goals.

88 min: More possession of Arsenal. It's a second half without dramas. The loudest noise for a while is generated when the PA official announces the closing of the Finsbury Park subway station, causing all kinds of effin 'and jeffin'.

86 min: Suarez and Ozil are buzzing around the BATE box, but can not find the combination to unlock the door.

84 min: A bullet rises in the BATE area and hits Simovic on the arm. The referee thinks of giving Arsenal a penalty, slightly raising the whistle to his lips, then changes his mind, perhaps after consulting his lineman.

83 min: Arsenal continues to play in the casual style. The crowd is a bit agitated because they would like to see some other goals whistling in BATE's net, but the players do not seem too worried, which is pretty good given that they were the ones who ran it all. tonight.

81 min: Arsenal plays by keeping the ball in the middle of the field. Time is their boyfriend now.

78 min: A rare period of possession of BATE in the Arsenal half. Simovic sends a Heatseeker up 30 meters to the left. A very good effort from so far, but still close to the post. Cech calmly observes it for a goal kick.

76 min: Aubameyang managed to get the free-kick through the wall but directly into Scherbitski's throat, which made a very good match if we consider the bad luck for Arsenal's third goal.

75 min: Volkov trailed a tired leg to knock down Monreal, who was making his way from the left, 30 yards from the goal. A free kick and Aubamayang believes it.

72 min: BATE makes his last change of the night and almost certainly his last match in Europa League. Dubajic replaces Skavysh, who threw himself to the ground.

71 min: Mkhitaryan slips a smart pbad into the right inner channel to free Aubameyang in the area. He shoots the goalkeeper while he slides a little to the right, then plunges the ball over him down left, unguarded. Atrocement, his effort bounces several inches from the post.

70 min: Aubameyang jumps into the right inner channel, but once reached, she can only slam a cross shot into the side net. Torreira was waiting in the hope of being installed.

69 min: The Emirates are calm. There is not much going on. A feeling that everyone just wants to pack up and go home now. It's done.

67 min: Stasevich tries to erase, but slices into the blender. Mustafi wins the head and the ball falls on Ozil, in a pocket of space at 12 meters distance, at the same level as the left pole. He is not offside. To get closer to the near post, he launched a first shot a few inches from the goal. A real chance; he smiled sadly.

66 min: Iwobi runs left and leaves Monreal free on the overlap. The center of Monreal is diverted to a corner, from where …

64 min: Everything changes by the minute, with Dragun, the hero of BATE's goal, giving way to Berezkin.

63 min: Guendouzi leaves to warm the applause. Arsenal fans took him away. They are also big fans of Torreira, and he applauded when he arrived.

62 min: The arsenals are as good as in the last 16, unless something very strange happens, because BATE does nothing in attack. Lichtsteiner erase the line seems very distant a long time ago.

Mkhitaryan bursts to the right and pulls very close with a closed angle. Filipovic is extremely good at sliding and blocking for a corner. But this is only a brief relief. Xhaka points to the corner of the post. Scherbitski comes out of his line to hit, but makes a horrible ball, beating wildly. Sokratis, next door, goes home a few meters.

58 min: Ozil now wears the captain's armband. He sends Iwobi to the left; Mkhitaryan is heading widely to the far post. Then a nice moment while the former Arsenal midfielder, Alex Hleb, made his debut in Baga. An ovation of great heat is given to him while he goes on the ground.

57 min: The captain of Arsenal is on the bench doing his calf check by physio. Hope this is nothing serious. he had an infernal chance with injury recently.

56 min: Koscielny took a blow and is replaced by Sokratis.

53 min: Rios slips a ball down right for Skavysh, and for a second Arsenal are on the back foot. But Monreal is holding him well and Arsenal is unleashed. Iwobi enters the BATE box from the left and tries a curler down to the right. Scherbitski is doing well. BATE is half clear, Mkhitaryan's shot from the right deviates for a corner.

51 min: Ozil plays a nice ball in the right inner channel to free Mkhitaryan in the BATE area. Mkhitaryan forms to shoot but slips. The ball returns to Xhaka on the edge of the surface. He launches a wild effort out of the target.

49 min: A disturbing pinball game in the Arsenal box. Monreal collapses trying to clear and only manages to give the ball to Skavysh, who moves his feet in a tight space and takes a shot straight at Cech. A reminder that a ticket could be expensive at Arsenal.

48 min: Now Guendouzi is shooting from outside the BATE zone. This one is not on the target either, but it is not a bad effort at all, buckled from the right and not with a million kilometers of the upper corner.

47 min: Monreal has a remote search. No. In the meantime, here is Paul Bowes, who knows very well what I meant: "Regarding your remark at 29 minutes: Aubameyang has surely always had the right to shoot himself in the back. But that seems excessive for a bad shot.

And we leave! Arsenal starts the second half; there was no change at half-time in this match for the Europa League. "Not that it takes too much for me to think of the concept of heavy metal football, but crikey The badge of the Big Vase arm seems to be a nod to The Object from Zep's seventh album, "writes Grant Tennille, of rock music. "Given the distances traveled and the amount of lighting, it's not a bad reference, really; Jimmy Page always considered it an "album against adversity", considered by all as a thunderbolt, with the exception of the most committed fans. "

Half-time animation. Of course, there have already been a lot of European actions this week. Max Rushden and his buddies tackle bones in Football Weekly. Enjoy!

That puts an end to a satisfying football half for Arsenal. They should come off in the second half, but they will remember that BATE has been seriously threatened during the first exchanges and that a goal on the outside is going to change everything. Back in 15. No flipping!

45 min: Ozil, Iwobi and Guendouzi attack in trio on the left flank. The BATE are light at the back and the correct pbad sequence must send one of the three points to the goal. But Ozil goes to Guendouzi when he has to find Iwobi on the left. Guendouzi is then unable to reach Iwobi with a threaded pbad. All three have the good grace of looking frustrated.

43 min: Iwobi reduced the score 30 meters from goal, just to the left of the center. Ozil quickly takes it by plunging a bullet into the left inner channel to free Aubameyang in the area. It is clear, but at a tight angle, Scherbitski again shows his quality by reducing the angle and preventing the attacker from shooting. It is a good solution to keep the last resort.

41 min: So this match can not be extended now. It may be over soon if BATE does not clear the head. Volkov plays a weak backpbad on the right of Arsenal, and Ozil almost hangs on it. Not for the first time, Scherbitski knows very well how to read the danger, go fast and get out of space.

The good work of Aubameyang marks a corner on the left. Xhaka sends the fixed piece to the repair point, where Mustafi rises above a sleepy Baga and plants a head in the lower left corner! Simple and Arsenal took the lead for the first time.

38 min: It's much better from Mkhitaryan, who dances in both directions, the right wing reaches the sideline and dives into the center of the post which is half-erased. The ball falls at Ozil, 12 meters and level with the right post. He crushes a rising volley up on the left … but it's a bit too high. Nice effort, though.

36 min: Mkhitaryan is heading to the BATE box from the right wing. He aligns Lichtsteiner on the overlap and tries to release him into space, but the pbad is not good, she slams to the feet of the back instead of in front of him. Lichtsteiner has no chance to control and it's over.

34 min: Milic arrives by the back of Mkhitaryan and is slightly lucky to escape a reservation. This is not really a physical battle so far, which could explain the leniency of the referee.