Sjokktap in Belarus - BATE shook the Arsenal

BATE Borisov - Arsenal 1-0 (1-0)

the Difference between Arsenal and naborival Tottenham Hotspur could hardly be bigger for the moment. The day after that Spurs had broken Germany's best teams in the Champions League was Arsenal it is very tough away from home in the Europa League in Belarus.

although Arsenal came to BATE Borisov as the clear favorites to move on from the 16.-delsfinalen was not the way it worked out on the bumpy path in Borisov. Unai Emerys crew got real struggle against the belarusian crew has not played an official football game in over two months.

Just before the break scored namely the home team the match after a good set pieces from the right edge. Midfielder Stanislaw Drahun towered highest in the field and the headet the ball past Arsenals goalkeeper Petr Cech.

This was not the result we wanted, but BATE worked hard for it. Next week is going to be different, " said Arsenal coach Unai Emery, who won the europaligaen three years in a row when he was the Seville coach.

In the first half we were good, with chances to score, but 1-0 was BATE defensively good and made it difficult for us. the

Last season, the two teams in the group stage in the same tournament and Arsenal won the two matches 4-2 and 6-0. Now Arsenal have a tougher task to turn out hviterusserne in this year's edition of the tournament.

Annulment

Arsenal started the match fresh and both Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Alexander Iwobi had fantastic chances to put guests in the lead. Then, it seemed as though Arsenal would run over the hosts.

instead it was kampbilde another. The hosts were toxic on the counter and made constant trouble for Arsenals defense. Closest to scoring was Nemanja Milic as hit the outside of the bar from two meters distance after a bare half-hour.

Arsenal seemed shaken, and it was the hosts who could score the first goal just before the break.

In the second half, struggled the reds from North London to get to decent chances. Alexandre Lacazette thought albeit that he had equalized ten minutes into the half, but linjemannen was up with the flag and waved for offside on the frenchman.

Got the red

Arsenal, who had not with Aaron Ramsey and Mesut Özil to Belarus, thrown into storspissen Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang in the hope of getting to something more offensive.

It helped a little and the pain was worse as Alexandre Lacazette lost his head five minutes before full time. The frenchman was held in jersey when he turned up. Liked it he bad and hit with your elbow in your face oppasseren.

Judge Srdjan Jovanovic went correctly until the red card. Thus must Arsenal do without Lacazette in the returoppgjøret and the frenchman could be banned for several matches if Arsenal manage to progress.

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