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Europa League Quarterfinal Draw Result 2018- Arsenal v CSKA & Atletico vs Sporting

Arsenal’s reward for seeing off AC Milan in the round of 16 is a quarterfinal tie against Russian side CSKA Moscow. The draw for the EL quarterfinals were made today (March 16, 2018), just after the Champions League quarterfinal draw was conducted. Arsenal’s hopes of playing CL football next season will probably require the Gunners to do what Man United did in 2016/17- win the Europa League to qualify. The Gunners are currently sixth in the table with 48 points, a whopping 12 points behind fourth place Liverpool.

EL Quarterfinal draw 2017/18

Leipzig v Marseille
Arsenal v CSKA
Atletico Madrid vs Sporting Lisbon
Lazio vs Salzburg

Country distribution: One club each from England, Germany, France, Russia, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Austria

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Hilarious red card!- Ex Arsenal player Sanchez Watt sent off vs East Thurrock for Hemel Hempstead 2018- Referee Dean Hulme

Hilarious scenes in last night’s non-league clash between Hemel Hempstead and East Thurrock. Referee Dean Hulme wanted to book ex Arsenal starlet Sanchez Watt, now playing for Hemel, and asked him for his name. Watt replied with “Watt” a number of times, but the referee mistook it for “What?” “What?“, and decided to give the player a red card for dissent!

Fortunately for Watt, Hemel captain Jordan Parkes (a former Watford player and a England youth representative) stepped in and explained the whole situation and the red card was rescinded. Watt was given a yellow (the original card he was supposed to receive) and the match went on. Hemel won the game 2-0 against East Thurrock, with Watt one of the scorers on the evening

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Arsenal Player Ratings- Carabao Cup Final 2018 v City- Poor, bad, abysmal?

Arsenal slumped to a 3-0 loss at Wembley in the Carabao Cup final as Manchester City won their first trophy of the Guardiola era against Arsene Wenger’s side. The Gunners did start positively but fell behind after Mustafi’s error allowed Sergio Aguero to score from goalkeeper Claudio Bravo’s long punt (a very un-City like goal, if we may put it that way), and put in a dire second half performance that will lead to renewed calls for their manager’s dismissal.

Several TV pundits labelled Arsenal as “spineless” and “disgraceful”.

We’ve aggregated Arsenal’s player ratings from several newspapers- Wilshere seems to be the only one who came out of this relatively unscathed. The likes of Mesut Ozil and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang were disappointing, as the ratings show. Shkodran Mustafi also came in for plenty of flack- perhaps the worst performing Arsenal player on the day according to these aggregated ratings.

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