CSKA Moskva v Arsenal background
CSKA Moskva will have to pull on rare powers of liberation in Moscow if they are to overturn a 4-1 improved they postulated opposite Arsenal in a initial leg of this UEFA Europa League quarter-final. Arsène Wenger’s side are a top-scoring organisation in a foe with 27 goals, and their sum of 8 victories is also unmatched.
• Third in their UEFA Champions League organisation during a autumn, CSKA overcame Crvena zvezda in a turn of 32, a goalless pull in Belgrade preceding a 1-0 win in Moscow, before finale a hopes of final season’s semi-finalists Lyon. After losing 1-0 during home, initial UEFA Europa League goals of a debate from Aleksandr Golovin, Ahmed Musa and Pontus Wernbloom gave CSKA a noted 3-2 win in France to sign their swell on divided goals.
• Arsenal, a solitary English member in a UEFA Europa League knockout phase, won 4 of their 6 autumn encounters to tip Group H before knocking out European debutants Östersund in a turn of 32 afterwards winning both legs opposite Milan – 2-0 in Italy and 3-1 in north London.
Previous meetings
• A raging initial half in north London delivered 5 goals – 4 to Arsenal – and that was how a initial leg finished, with a Gunners beholden to a double each from Aaron Ramsey and Alexandre Lacazette, a French striker scoring on his entrance for a bar in a competition. CSKA’s unique strike – to make it 1-1 – came from a fantastic Golovin free-kick.
• CSKA got a improved of Arsenal when a dual teams were interconnected in a 2006/07 UEFA Champions League organisation stage, winning 1-0 in Moscow with a Daniel Carvalho free-kick and apropos a initial visiting organisation to forestall a Gunners from scoring in their new track when they drew a lapse tie 0-0.
• Igor Akinfeev, Sergei Ignashevich and a Berezutski twins, Aleksei and Vasili, were in a unbreached CSKA counterclaim for both of those fixtures. However, notwithstanding those formula Arsenal went on to win a group, with CSKA finishing third.
• This is CSKA’s 21st European tie opposite English opposition, their record station during W3 D5 L12. They have already mislaid during home to English antithesis this season, going down 1-4 during home to Manchester United on matchday dual of a UEFA Champions League.
• CSKA have catastrophic to win any of their final 6 fixtures opposite Premier League visitors and have an altogether record in Moscow of W2 D2 L5. Their final home win opposite an English bar was in a 2008/09 UEFA Cup turn of 32, when they degraded Aston Villa 2-0 to finish a 3-1 sum win. That is CSKA’s solitary prior knockout tie opposite English opposition.
• Arsenal have a disastrous altogether change opposite Russian antithesis in UEFA foe (W3 D2 L4) and have never won in Russia (D1 L3). All 4 of those matches have been in Moscow, with a 0-0 pull opposite Lokomotiv Moskva in a 2003/04 UEFA Champions League organisation theatre a one arise on that a Gunners have avoided defeat. Their usually prior two-legged knockout tie with Russian antithesis finished in an 8-4 sum improved by Spartak Moskva in a initial turn of a 1982/83 UEFA Cup (2-3 away, 2-5 home).
Form guide
• CSKA mislaid their opening dual home games in this season’s UEFA Champions League organisation theatre – 1-4 opposite Manchester United, 0-2 opposite Basel – before defeating Benfica 2-0 in Moscow on matchday 5 and afterwards prevalent 1-0 opposite Crvena zvezda to win their turn of 32 tie by a same sum score. They afterwards mislaid 0-1 during home to Lyon in a turn of 16. Excluding subordinate ties, they have won usually dual of their final 10 European home fixtures (D3 L5).
• That feat over Crvena zvezda is a usually one a Russian side have managed in their final 7 home matches in prime European foe (D3 L3); they have scored 4 goals over that widen while surrender six. It is also a solitary feat in their final 5 UEFA Europa League home fixtures, play-offs enclosed (D1 L3).
• Like UEFA Europa League debutants Arsenal, CSKA have never formerly participated in a quarter-finals of a renamed competition. This is a club’s third coming in a European quarter-final. They won a initial of them, 4-2 on sum opposite Auxerre (4-0 home, 0-2 away), en track to winning a 2004/05 UEFA Cup, though mislaid a other, going down 1-0 in both legs to Internazionale in a 2009/10 UEFA Champions League.
• CSKA were runners-up to city rivals Spartak Moskva in final season’s Russian Premier League. To strech a UEFA Champions League organisation theatre they came by dual subordinate rounds, defeating both AEK Athens and Young Boys 3-0 on aggregate.
• The Gunners have won 6 of their final 7 divided fixtures in a UEFA Cup and UEFA Europa League, including 4 out of 5 in 2017/18, a usually cut a 1-0 improved during Köln in this season’s organisation stage. They are on a run of 4 unbroken divided victories in a UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League knockout phase.
• Arsenal have enlarged their European debate into a open for a 19th unbroken year – all underneath Arsène Wenger’s management.
• Arsenal are creation their UEFA Europa League entrance this season. Their final European debate outward a UEFA Champions League was a 1999/2000 UEFA Cup, that finished with a chastisement shoot-out improved in a final opposite Galatasaray. They overcame Werder Bremen in that season’s quarter-final, winning 2-0 during home and 4-2 away.
• The Gunners’ record in UEFA foe quarter-final ties is W6 L5, nonetheless they have mislaid 4 of their final 6 – all in a UEFA Champions League. In all of those 6 successful quarter-finals, they avoided improved in a divided leg (W2 D4), given in 4 of a 5 catastrophic ties they were beaten on their travels, sketch a other game.
• CSKA have mislaid dual of a 3 UEFA foe ties in that they fell to improved divided from home in a initial leg, though they were winning in a many recent, overcoming Sporting CP in a 2015/16 UEFA Champions League play-offs (1-2 away, 3-1 home). They have never formerly mislaid a initial divided leg by some-more than one goal.
• Arsenal have won a initial leg during home in 17 UEFA foe ties and have done serve swell on 15 of those occasions, including in all 4 knockout rounds en track to a 1999/2000 UEFA Cup final (against Nantes, Deportivo La Coruña, Werder Bremen and Lens).
• The Gunners have never formerly won a home initial leg 4-1. The usually dual times that they catastrophic to validate following first-leg victories in north London came after 2-1 scorelines, Valencia violence them 1-0 in a lapse of a 2000/01 UEFA Champions League quarter-final to go by on divided goals and another Spanish club, Barcelona, recuperating to win 3-1 in a 2010/11 UEFA Champions League turn of 16 second leg.
Links and trivia
• Ramsey’s idea that gave Arsenal a 2-0 lead in Milan was a 350th scored by an English bar in a UEFA Europa League, organisation theatre to final.
• CSKA goalkeeper Akinfeev has played each notation of his team’s European debate this season, gripping 7 purify sheets in 15 matches.
• Arsenal defender Laurent Koscielny played for France as they degraded a Russia side featuring Dzagoev and Golovin 3-1 in an general accessible on 27 Mar in Saint Petersburg.
• Ramsey scored past Akinfeev when Wales degraded Russia 3-0 in a final organisation diversion of UEFA EURO 2016. Ignashevich, Aleksei Berezutski, Vasili Berezutski and Golovin also played for Russia in that game.
• Jack Wilshere came on as a surrogate for England opposite Russia in a same contest and was on a margin when Vasili Berezutski scored Russia’s added-time equaliser in a 1-1 draw.
• Arsenal’s Henrikh Mkhitaryan was a UEFA Europa League leader with Manchester United final season. The Armenian general has already played in Moscow opposite CSKA in Europe this season, scoring United’s final idea to climax that 4-1 win in a UEFA Champions League.
• Petr Čech played twice for Chelsea opposite CSKA in a 2004/05 UEFA Champions League organisation stage, gripping purify sheets in both games (2-0 home, 1-0 away).
• Alan Dzagoev scored twice past Čech when Russia degraded Czech Republic 4-1 in a organisation theatre of UEFA EURO 2012.
• There are 8 opposite nations represented in a UEFA Europa League quarter-finals. The final vital UEFA bar foe in that that occurred was a 2004/05 UEFA Cup – that CSKA went on to win.
• CSKA striker Musa is on loan to a bar from English side Leicester City, for whom he done his home entrance as a surrogate opposite a Gunners in Aug 2016. He is a Nigerian general team-mate of Arsenal’s Alex Iwobi.
• In further to being a UEFA Europa League’s top-scoring side, Arsenal have also had some-more idea attempts than any other side – 152 in sum – while midfielder Mohamed Elneny has finished some-more passes (647) than any other actor in a competition.
• CSKA’s Kirill Nababkin earnings from cessation for this fixture.
• Suspended for subsequent compare if booked: Pontus Wernbloom, Bibras Natcho, Alan Dzagoev, Ahmed Musa (CSKA).
Penalty shoot-outs
• Arsenal’s record in UEFA chastisement shoot-outs is W2 L2:
4-5 v Valencia, 1979/80 UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup final
3-2 v Sampdoria, 1994/95 UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup semi-final
1-4 v Galatasaray, 1999/2000 UEFA Cup final
7-6 v Roma, 2008/09 UEFA Champions League turn of 16
• CSKA Moskva’s record in UEFA chastisement shoot-outs is W0 L1:
6-7 v Ferencváros, 1994/95 UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup initial round
The coaches
• Appointed by CSKA to reinstate long-serving manager Leonid Slutski in Dec 2016, Viktor Goncharenko was usually 39 during a time, though he had warranted a flourishing repute in Russian football, particularly while portion as Slutski’s assistant. He done his name as a manager in his local Belarus during BATE Borisov, winning 5 true titles and heading a bar into a UEFA Champions League organisation theatre on 3 occasions.
• Arsène Wenger has been a Arsenal manager given 1996, heading a Gunners to 3 English titles, a record 7 FA Cup wins and a 2006 UEFA Champions League final. A actor of medium repute, he done his name as a manager with Nancy and Monaco in his local France before relocating to Japan for a brief spell with Nagoya Grampus 8. He is a longest portion manager in a Premier League.