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Arsenal came through the group stage with two fingers in the nose and meets the Belarusian BATE Borisov in the sixteenth final. Thursday is the first game.
BATE Borisov:
BATE Borisov has achieved an impressive hegemony in his own country. Since 2006, the team has been champion of Belarus 12 times in a row and usually this is also a big advantage over the competition. Last December, Aliaksei Baha’s team closed the season with a nine-run lead at number two Shaktyor Solygorsk. This is also a big disadvantage for BATE, as the team played its last competitive game more than two months ago.
BATE placed itself in the wake of group winner Chelsea for the knockout stage by staying ahead of Greek PAOK Saloniki and Hungarian MOL Vidi. It did not look like that for a long time, because the Belarusians had only played three points after four games. By winning in the last two group matches of PAOK and MOL Vidi, BATE managed to stay ahead of the competition.
BATE did not strengthen itself this winter. On the other hand, the team said goodbye to a zipper, of which striker Nikolai Signevich (six goals in the league and three goals in the Europa League) is the best known.
Arsenal:
Arsenal can not keep up with the violence of Liverpool, Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur this season and has seen the third place disappear from sight. The Gunners compete for fourth place with Chelsea with an equal number of points and a revived Manchester United, which now has one more point. From a financial and sporting point of view, the fourth place in the Premier League is much more interesting than the Europa League, so that Unai Emery played in the group stage almost every game with players who usually do not take action in the league from the start signal.
Despite the regular B-team Arsenal came through her group with two fingers in her nose. In a group with Sporting Lisbon, Vorskla Poltava and FK Qarabag, The Gunners were only allowed to give a run-off to the Portuguese, meaning the team finished topping sixteen points. The target numbers of 12-2 also speak for themselves.
Emery should miss Hector Bellerin, Rob Holding and Danny Welbeck for the rest of the season, while playing along with Sokratis Papastathopoulos and Granit Xhaka in the first leg is unlikely. Mesut Ozil, Aaron Ramsey and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang trained separately this week and may be spared for Thursday night.
BATE vs Arsenal head to head matches
07.12.17 EL Arsenal BATE 6 : 0
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