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Despite being recently in disgrace with Unai Emery, Mesut Ozil started for the Gunners tonight, hoping to do a good shift and consolidate his place back in the squad. Arsenal needed a solid home performance after already starting the game. a goal at the bottom from the first leg. Especially with BATE advantage of purpose on the outside, artillerymen could not afford to grant.
Less than two minutes was before Arsenal threatened Shcherbitski's goal. Alex Iwobi fired a rocket towards the goal inside the penalty area, but he was directly in the center and goalkeeper BATE well treated.
This was the precedent that Arsenal would set for the rest of the first semester as early pressure Volkov leads to turn the ball into his own net at the back of a fast Aubameyang cross. Arsenal continued to apply pressure, not giving BATE much of a chance to build an attack.
Arsenal effort was relentless while the attempts of Ozil, Mkhitaryan, Iwobi and Aubameyang could have allowed Arsenal to strengthen its lead. It was Mustafi however who doubled the advance of the gunners while he was getting up to pound the head of one of Arsenal's many turns in the first period. In doing so, he marked his first European objective.
BATE were not without chances themselves, but the defense of Arsenal, led by Lawrence Koscielny, was strong, and sniffed all danger keep Cech on a blank sheet. BATE looked slightly lack of luster at the start of the break, they were 2-1 down (in total) after the first half.
Again, it's Arsenal that came out shoot at full speed at the beginning of the second period, they saw chance after opportunity within 10 minutes. Iwobi and Mkhitaryan were the playmakers for gunners as they sent several crosses that BATE has treated well.
Laurent Koscielny had to be replaced early in the second half as it seemed suffer from an injury to the left ankleand was replaced by Sokratis. Unai Emery hopes that it is nothing serious for the center-back as he had just been returned to action for gunners after a long spell wounded.
Sokratis turned out to be a bit of a super sub for the side of Emery as he took less than five minutes have an impact, scoring Arsenal's third goal with a header rocket from one corner. Power and precision beat Shcherbitski and gave even more advance to Arsenal. BATE would need to score two goals take the score to 3-3 to win the victory over a advantage of purpose on the outside.
Arsenal followed the rest of the match with elegance while continuing to put pressure on BATE who left less and less time to make a return. Mesut Ozil was among those who had had chances on goal, but after a long sneaky period away, it seemed like lack of confidence as he could not produce the beautiful finishes that we usually see from him.
After a short time, the final whistle was given and Unai Emery's team celebrated the victory that led them into the round of 16 in this year's Europa League campaign.
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