Official Site of Arsenal · Feb 21, 2019
Arsenal 3-0 BATE Borisov - How it happened
WHAT HAPPENED
We booked our place in the last-16 of the Europa League with a comfortable victory against BATE Borisov on Thursday evening.
If there were any early nerves at the prospect of trying to overturn our first-leg deficit, they were soon dispelled when, after an opening blitz, we took the lead in the fourth minute.
It arrived in fortuitous circumstances when Pierre-Emerick Aubayemang dropped his shoulder and powered away down the right before seeing his low cross diverted into his own goal by Zakhar Volkov.
It was the perfect start – and our fastest goal in European competition since Lukas Podolski’s strike against Galatasaray back in December 2014.