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Arsenal vs BATE Prediction & Betting tips
Arsenal blasted last week in Belarus and will therefore have to make every effort to get the next round in the Europa League.
Arsenal:
Arsenal placed itself with the greatest ease for the sixteenth final of the Europa League and this led to an underestimation when BATE Borisov came out of the box as the first opponent. Emery sent a strong team into the field, but the attitude of the players was noticeable and at rest Arsenal faced a disadvantage. This was the reason to bring Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang into the field, but he also failed to produce an equalizer. In the final phase, Alexandre Lacazatte got a red card after a ridiculous elbow bout.
The defeat against BATE was extra painful when one remembers that Mesut Özil strikes more than the whole selection of BATE Borisov each month. On Thursday-evening, Arsenal has to repackage in its own stadium, otherwise the European season is over. It is possible that Ozil and Ramsey are back again, they were missing last week due to illness and a knee injury respectively. Lacazette will certainly not be there and suspension, just like Hector Bellerin, Sokratis Papastathopoulos, Danny Welbeck and Rob Holding due to long-term injuries.
Because Arsenal was already eliminated by Manchester United in the FA Cup last month, the team had a free weekend last weekend. A week without a race is a rarity for an English team, so we can expect a fit team on Thursday-evening.
BATE Borisov:
The European season of BATE Borisov started in July. In the first two qualifying rounds of the Champions League, the Belarusians counted with HJK Helsinki and FK Qarabag, after which the road to the Champions League was blocked by PSV. This led BATE to the Europa League, where it managed to overwinter in a group with Chelsea, PAOK Saloniki and the Hungarian MOL Vidi.
When Arsenal rolled out of the tube, the European adventure of the Aliaksei Baga team seemed to have passed, but BATE surprised friend and foe by defeating the big Arsenal in their own stadium by 1-0. Stanislav Dragun turned out to be the hero of the home team by taking the only goal of the match. With this, BATE provided an excellent starting position for the return.
The victory of BATE is extra handsome when it is realized that the team had not played an official game for more than two months. Because the Belarusian competition already ended in December with the thirteenth national title in a row for BATE, in the meantime the team only played exhibition games.
Arsenal vs BATE head to head matches
14.02.19 EL BATE Arsenal 1 : 0
07.12.17 EL Arsenal BATE 6 : 0
28.09.17 EL BATE Arsenal 2 : 4