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Arsenal 3-0 BATE Borisov - How it 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.