Arsenal suffered a poor 2-1 defeat to Östersunds FK on Thursday night, which was disappointing despite the aggregate result putting the club in the next round.
Östersund raced into a 2-0 lead in the first half, and almost looked like they might overturn their 3-0 home defeat in Sweden. Fortunately, Sead Kolašinac killed off the tie with an early second half goal.
Arsenal progress to the round of 16, but individually there were a lot of poor performances.
Here are our player ratings:
3Forwards
Alex Iwobi 3
I don’t think Iwobi was as bad as some are making out, and Arsenal relied on him a lot to help create opportunities, but he certainly didn’t play well. His main problem was, once again, his poor finishing.
Henrikh Mkhitaryan 3.5
Right now, Mkhitaryan seems to be alternating between good and bad performances. He was only a shadow of the player who provided three assists against Everton and two away to Östersund. He still had a couple of moments of quality, and with more clinical players attacking his chances he might have come away with another assist.
Danny Welbeck 2
These two matches were a chance for Welbeck to prove himself, but he couldn’t take advantage. His four shots never troubled the keeper, and he couldn’t make any chances for his teammates either.
“…his most notable contribution was probably
falling over twice in 10 seconds…”
Substitutes next