All the stats and match details from Thursday evening’s tie between Arsenal and Atletico Madrid in the Europa League first-leg semi-final.
Arsene Wenger’s side hosted their Spanish opponents at the Emirates Stadium yesterday evening.
#AFCvATL proved to be a frustrating evening for us allhttps://t.co/SkgBgI9qVl
— Arsenal (@Arsenal) April 27, 2018
With the match clearly being a tough affair over the two legs given Atletico’s quality, Arsenal went into the game hoping to lean on home comforts to secure a clear advantage before we looked to book ourselves a place in the Final with the second leg.
In many ways, Arsenal couldn’t have got a better start as Atletico were reduced to ten men ten minutes into the tie as defender Sime Vrsaljko was dismissed for two yellow card offences. The man advantage didn’t prove to be useful ultimately. Despite dominating chances and possession on the day we looked set to take only a 1-0 advantage moving forward as Alexandre Lacazette found the net in the 61st minute. Antoine Griezmann found a leveller inside of the final ten minutes and, to put it simply, it’s about as good as a defeat.
Not true. Lacazette can score. Idk why u say he cant, he’s scored regularly now. Midfield, özil and Ramsey both play masterclass and provide great balls. Defense sucks. We all know that. It wasn’t our night
— Nick Merton (@lil_mert22) April 27, 2018
Fans are certainly remaining optimistic but reactions were mixed.
https://twitter.com/NoLookMesut/status/989667656797163520
https://twitter.com/gooner_tt/status/989874001009922048
https://twitter.com/jc1600sport/status/989671078833291265
Guys were careless, didn't seize the golden opportunity they had last night
Madrid maybe very difficult to win
Not cool!— Alhaji (Engr.) Abubakar Khalid (@khalAbubakar) April 27, 2018
This just about sums up the whole season
— brenda aicardi (@baicardi31) April 27, 2018
We can do this, let us stop the negativity! We actually had a very good game bar that embarrassing defensive error that gave them an away goal. 1-0 would have been a great result but we can still go through!
COYG— Jay Njoroge (@Jay2em) April 27, 2018