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2¹ The 'keeper dived to his right to stop a fierce drive from FC Basel's FLORENZI. 6¹ ROONEY dummied DANI ALVES but placed the ball into the arms of DIEGO. 7¹ GOAL!! A quick free-kick allowed MATUIDI to nudge the ball to FLORENZI who drilled a left foot shot into the back of the net. (1-0 FC Basel) 9¹ A pin-point pass found BOYÉ and his deadly shot raced narrowly over. 13¹ A poor strike from IBRAHIMOVIC trickled agonisingly wide. 14¹ MARTINS-INDI ran onto a wonderful ball from KOKE but toe-poked his effort wide of the goal. 17¹ A perfect strike from KOSCIELNY was dealt with by a useful block from the 'keeper. 18¹ A header by JORDI ALBA at the far post was comfortably collected by BUFFON. 19¹ A shot from JORDI ALBA seemed a certain goal but BUFFON managed to force the ball away. 24¹ GOAL!! A quick-witted PEDRO pounced on a loose ball just inside the box and made no mistake. (1-1) 27¹ REUS's shot was well held by the FC Basel 'keeper. 32¹ IBRAHIMOVIC dribbled round LAHM and rattled a poor shot past the post. 35¹ KOSCIELNY blasted a looping shot over the bar from just outside the area. 36¹ MARTINS-INDI stroked an easy chance past the near post. 45¹ GOAL!! Some good work by MARCHISIO on the right, left PEDRO yards clear, and he pulled away from the FC Basel 'keeper and fired the ball home. (2-1 Arsenal) 4² REUS made space on the right and knocked the ball to PEDRO who touched the ball over. 10² REUS beat RODRÍGUEZ and placed the ball to BOYÉ who blasted his shot wide. 14² A mix up in the Arsenal defence enabled DANI ALVES to volley an effort inches wide. 19² A free-kick from ROONEY flew over. 22² A useful ball from LOCADIA on the right was collected by DANTE who mishit his shot just beyond the far post. 24² ADRIANO rushed an easy chance. 30² MARCHISIO beat four FC Basel players and stroked a great chance over the bar. 31² The bemused Arsenal 'keeper stared in disbelief as a backpass from PEDRO fell just over. 35² MATUIDI shot over. 36² An inswinging corner was nodded into the arms of the 'keeper by MATUIDI. 42² A penalty box meleé resulted in DANI ALVES driving the ball over.

Arsenal   League position: 6 Home league form: WXWW Overall league form: LWWXWWWL Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups (c)Gianluigi BUFFON 7½ 1 6½ DIEGO Alves Philipp LAHM 7½ 2 6  DANI ALVES ADRIANO Correia 7½ 3 7½ JORDI ALBA Ramos Claudio MARCHISIO 8  4 7½ Blaise MATUIDI Laurent KOSCIELNY 6  5 7  DANTE Bonfim Bruno MARTINS-INDI 6  6 6½ Juan BERNAT KOKE 6½ 7 7  Alessandro FLORENZI PEDRO Eliezer 6½ 8 7  ISCO (p)Lucas BOYÉ 5½ 9 7  Zlatan IBRAHIMOVIC(c,p) (f)Marco REUS 6½ 10 6½ James RODRÍGUEZ(f) Wayne ROONEY 6½ 11 7  Jürgen LOCADIA Manager Leroy SANÉ    12    Bertrand TRAORÉ Francis COQUELIN    13 6½ GERARD Deulofeu Corentin TOLISSO    14 6  JUANFRAN Mathieu DEBUCHY    15    WILLIAN Borges Joel CAMPBELL    16    Henrikh MKHITARYAN

FC Basel   League position: 8 Away league form: WWXX Overall league form: XWWWWWWX Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics

Arsenal 2 FC Basel 1 (Half-time: 2-1, Attendance: 59,855, Stadium: Emirates Stadium, Referee: Alfred Wieser 6) Pedro 24¹, Pedro 45¹ Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Florenzi 7¹   BernatóGerard 7², LocadiaóJuanfran 25²         2 3 20 22 6 5 5 5 9 7 14 12 3 4 55% 45% ¶ Man of the match: Claudio Marchisio ¶