Arsenal v CSKA Moskva background
Having convincingly likely of AC Milan in a turn of 16, Arsenal horde a initial leg of a quarter-final opposite a CSKA Moskva side who recovered from a first-leg improved in Moscow to reject Lyon on divided goals with a 3-2 win in a track that will theatre a 2018 UEFA Europa League final.
• 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.
• 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 divided success.
Previous meetings
• 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.
• Arsenal have a disastrous altogether change opposite Russian antithesis in UEFA foe (W2 D2 L4) though a certain one during home (W2 D1 L1) – notwithstanding a fact that their heaviest home improved in a UEFA Cup came opposite Spartak Moskva (2-5 in a 1982/83 initial round). They have not conceded in any of their 3 home fixtures to Russian clubs given then, that 0-0 pull opposite CSKA following UEFA Champions League organisation wins opposite Lokomotiv Moskva (2-0) and Spartak (1-0).
• This is CSKA’s 20th European tie opposite English opposition, their record station during W3 D5 L11. They have already visited England this season, losing 2-1 opposite Manchester United during Old Trafford in their final compare of a UEFA Champions League organisation stage. A Vitinho strike on 45 mins gave them a half-time lead before United struck behind in a second period.
• That improved in Manchester was CSKA’s fifth in a quarrel opposite English clubs, home and away. Their solitary success on English dirt (D3 L5) came in a organisation theatre of a 2014/15 UEFA Champions League, when they won 2-1 during Manchester City. It valid in vain, however, as it was their usually feat in a territory they finished in bottom place.
Form guide
• Arsenal’s eight-match dominant home run in UEFA Cup and UEFA Europa League matches (W6 D2) came to an finish in a turn of 32 with a 2-1 improved by Östersund, nonetheless they bounced behind by violence Milan 3-1.
• Prior to that feat over a Rossoneri a Gunners had mislaid any of their prior 6 European home games in a spring, surrender 17 goals. They have not kept a purify piece in seven.
• 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 5 of those 6 successful quarter-finals, they won a home leg, sketch a other. In usually one of a 5 catastrophic ties did they post a feat during home (D2 L2).
• CSKA have won 5 of their 7 European divided fixtures this season, including 2-1 victories during Benfica and Basel in a UEFA Champions League organisation stage. Their usually divided improved is that 2-1 retreat during Manchester United.
• CSKA have won 6 of their final 9 UEFA Europa League divided games, including qualifying, losing usually one – a 2010/11 turn of 16 confront in Porto (1-2).
• 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 total 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.
Links and trivia
• Arsenal’s total of 7 wins in this season’s UEFA Europa League, organisation theatre to final, is a top in a competition.
• Aaron 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 14 matches.
• 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 Vasilki 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 opposite CSKA in Europe this season, scoring United’s final idea to climax a 4-1 win in Moscow on matchday dual of 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 now 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.
• CSKA’s Kirill Nababkin is dangling for this fixture.
• Suspended for subsequent compare if booked: Pontus Wernbloom, Bibras Natcho (CSKA).
The coaches
• 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.
• 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.