After losing the first leg away fixture, Arsenal secured a place in the round of 16 in Europa League. Making an aggregate of 3-1 against the visitor on Thursday.

After losing the first leg fixture due to the poor performance by Arsenal as they were beaten 1-0. Emery’s boys bounce back to register a win to register a spot in the round of 16 with minimum fuss.

Ozil showed what they were lacking in the first leg of the fixture. With his creativity near the goal proved dangerous. However, Iwobi was the creative force for Arsenal in the early stage. when on the second minute, Lichtsteiner whips in a low cross, and it’s met by Iwobi, who slams a first-time shot straight at Scherbitski. That’s got the crowd going!

Arsenal took the early lead in the match at the 4th minute when a cross by Aubameyang was deflected by Volkov, facing his own goal, hangs out a leg and slices the ball into the bottom left, catching his keeper wrong footed and giving no chance. Makes the aggregate score to (1-1)

Mustafi gave Arsenal lead on the 39th minute of the match when Aubameyang’s good work earns a corner on the left. Xhaka send the set piece towards the penalty spot, where Mustafi raised above a dozy Baga and planted a header into the bottom left! Simple, and Arsenal hit the front in this tie for the first time.

Laurent Koscielny suffered another injury in the match providing further concerns to the manager as he made his way for Sokratis in the 56th minute of the match. He has having a very tough time due to successive injuries in his career.

Sokratis took only 229 seconds to register his first goal at Emirates stadium when Xhaka whipped the corner towards the far post. Scherbitski came off his line to punch, but made an awful ball of it, flapping at thin air. Sokratis, only just on, headed home from a couple of yards making it 3-0 and sealed the match.

Arsenal is going to face Stade Rennais on 7th March and will hope to win the fixture as their only hope to play Champions League is by winning the Europa League as the new found form by Manchester United by the arrival Ole Gunnar Solskjaer might make difficult for them to finish in top 4 of Premier League.