Arsenal v BATE background
Despite surrendering their dominant Group H record on matchday five, Arsenal were reliable as territory winners that evening.
• The Gunners were beaten 1-0 during Köln final time out and finish their European autumn programme with a home tie opposite a BATE Borisov side who can usually join them in a turn of 32 if they win in London and a other organisation game, between Crvena zvezda and Köln in Belgrade, is drawn.
Previous meetings
• Arsenal’s initial confront with Belarusian opposition, in Borisov on matchday two, valid a cultivatable event as they scored 3 times in a initial 25 minutes, including a double for Theo Walcott, en track to a 4-2 victory.
• BATE’s usually other knowledge of English clubs was a span of 2009/10 UEFA Europa League organisation theatre matches opposite Everton; they lost 2-1 during home though won 1-0 in Liverpool so are safeguarding a 100% success rate on English soil.
Form guide
• In 19 UEFA Champions League campaigns, Arsenal usually ever played during home 6 times on matchday six; they are dominant in those fixtures (W4 D2). They have also won their final 3 matchday 6 encounters – all away – in a UEFA Champions League, winning by a three-goal domain on any occasion.
• Arsenal are undefeated in their final 7 UEFA organisation home games (W5 D2) given a 3-2 detriment to Olympiacos on matchday dual of a 2015/16 UEFA Champions League.
• BATE have won only twice in their final 24 European divided fixtures (D7 L15), both victories entrance this season – 3-1 opposite Armenian champions Alashkert in a UEFA Champions League second subordinate round, and 2-1 contra Ukrainian bar Olexandriya in a UEFA Europa League play-offs. Both wins came in a second leg after they had drawn a initial compare 1-1 during home.
• Arsenal are creation their UEFA Europa League organisation theatre debut; their final debate in this foe was a 1999/2000 UEFA Cup, that finished unhappily when they mislaid on penalties to Galatasaray in a final.
• BATE competent for a organisation theatre by ousting Olexandriya in a play-offs, carrying mislaid to Slavia Praha on divided goals in a UEFA Champions League third subordinate round. They have competent for a turn of 32 once from their dual prior UEFA Europa League organisation campaigns, in 2010/11.
Links and trivia
• The tour from Borisov to London is a small over 1,900km.
• The clubs have a important former actor in common: midfielder Aleksandr Hleb (BATE 1999–2000, 2012–13, 2015, 2016; Arsenal 2005–08), who played in the 2006 UEFA Champions League final for a Gunners.
• BATE won their 12th unbroken Belarusian pretension in thespian conform on 26 November, midfielder Mirko Ivanić scoring an equaliser low into combined time to acquire a 3-3 pull during Gorodeya that enabled them to trill Dinamo Minsk to a championship on head-to-head record.
• Suspended for subsequent compare if booked: Stanislav Dragun, Nemanja Melunović, Nikolai Signevich (BATE)
The coaches
• Arsène Wenger has been Arsenal trainer given 1996, heading a Gunners to 3 English titles, 7 FA Cup wins and a 2006 UEFA Champions League final. An mediocre player, he done his name as a manager with Nancy and Monaco in his local France.
• Aleksandr Yermakovich has been on a staff during BATE given fasten as a midfielder in 1998. He won Belarusian titles as both actor and partner manager to Viktor Goncharenko – supplemented by 5 serve championships given he took solitary authority in 2013.