Europa League

Arsenal face some heavy trekking thanks to their Europa League trip to Azerbaijan, but how is it all going to play out?

When David Ospina was named in the starting lineup in the Premier League game against Stoke at the weekend my first instinct was that he had been dropped from the Europa League as Wenger got serious about the competition.

Arsenal made their bow in the Europa League and wasted no time in showing the competition exactly what it can expect from the side with the highest co-efficient by a distance.

Arsenal have been drawn against AC Milan in the final 16 of the Europa League and fans are strangely optimistic about the clash.

Celtic have dropped down into the Europa League, and Chris Sutton says he hopes they draw Arsenal and beat them.

Arsenal fought back from 2-0 down to secure a draw and top their Europa League group on Thursday night, though not entirely convincingly.

Unai Emery insists Arsenal will show their Azerbaijani hosts respect when they meet for the first time on Thursday night, although that doesn’t seem to be a two-way street.

Atletico Madrid’s Juanfran will miss both matches against Arsenal, handing the Gunners a boost ahead of the tie.

Another season has come to an end, and the majority of Arsenal fans are pretty happy about that fact, given the way this one unfolded.

Arsenal have issued a club statement to try and clarify events on Thursday night which saw kick-off delayed by an hour and FC Koln fans invade all sections of the Emirates.

Granit Xhaka posted a heartfelt message on his Instagram page this morning, apologising to the fans for failing to win the Europa League and thanking them for their support.

Arsenal have confirmed that both Bukayo Saka and Emile smith Rowe have returned to training ahead of Arsenal's crunch tie with Slavia Prague on Thursday night.

Arsenal came back from Athens with a 1-0 lead from the first leg of their UEFA Europa League Second Round tie last week.

Arsenal host Villarreal in the second leg of their Europa League semi-final on Thursday, let's take a look at our predicted lineup for the clash.

Focusing on Mikel Arteta's decision to pick no striker in his starting XI, and how it failed to succeed, Stephen Bradley reviews what went wrong for Arsenal vs Villarreal

According to Spanish publication, AS, Atletico Madrid are planning a surprise for the fans at tonight’s match.

Arsenal play Östersunds FK in the second leg of their round-of-32 tie on Thursday night, and with a cup final at the weekend, you can expect changes to the starting lineup.

Arsène Wenger has reiterated his dislike for the current Champions League system, which sees teams that finish third in their group being able to drop down into the Europa League.

Arsenal finally ended their losing streak with a top team performance away at the San Siro, beating Milan 2-0 on the night.

An Arsenal team of second-string players and youth stars had no trouble at all breezing past FC Vorskla on Thursday, winning the match 3-0 in Kiev.

Unai Emery will conduct Arsenal's final training session ahead of their Europa League tie against Qarabag in their stadium rather in London as Arsene Wenger preferred to do towards the end of his reign at the club.

Former Arsenal and FC Koln forward Tony Woodcock has backed the Gunners to beat his other old club in this evening's Europa League meeting at the Emirates.

Martin Odegaard is an injury doubt for the second leg of Arsenal's Europa League quarter-final against Slavia Prague, according to Mikel Arteta.

It has a been a thoroughly disappointing season so far for the Gunners, but the Europa League still offers the hope of significant silverware, and, perhaps more important, a back door into the Champions League next season. But is their defence up to the job?

Climbing into the top-four is starting to look like an impossible task, and winning the Europa League is a long-shot so could Arsenal cope with another year without Champions League football?

Kieran Tierney says Arsenal will be "100 per cent" ready for Chelsea on Sunday despite the short recovery time following their Europa League game against FC Zurich on Thursday night.

AC Milan will be without Ignazio Abate and Mateo Musacchio for the match Arsenal at the San Siro on Thursday night.

Arsenal eased past FC Vorskla on Thursday, with a 4-2 scoreline that ended up flattering the visitors, if anything.

Arsenal opened their Europa League campaign with a 3-1 win over FC Cologne last night.ac

It was a much improved week for Arsenal Football club, both on and off the field, as they cruised to a 5-1 aggregate win over Slavia Prague and beat Sheffield United 3-0, whilst also producing one of the most powerful anti-racism images of recent times.

Despite having a great match against Östersunds FK on Thursday night, Mesut Ozil hasn't been chosen by UEFA for their Europa League team of the week.

Arsenal progressed to the Europa League quarter-final with a 3-0 win over Stade Rennais FC on Thursday, overturning a 3-1 defeat in the first leg of the tie.

Joe Willock, Eddie Nketiah and Emile Smith Rowe could all feature against Qarabag on Thursday, after they were rested by Freddie Ljungberg in the u23s' win over Leicester City on Monday.

As Arsenal try to forget how things are going domestically, let's take a look at our predicted lineup to face Villarreal in the Europa League on Thursday.

Approximately 30 seconds, that’s all it took to pop the Emirates balloon that had refilled with the hope that something special was coming.

Arsenal beat BATE Borisov 4-2 in the Europa League on Thursday night but while some players were brilliant, others let the team down by making basic mistakes.

Gurban Gurbanov, manager of Qarabag, has said that Arsenal should not be in the Europa League because they are simply too good for the competition.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang grabbed a brace against Benfica as Arsenal did their best to crash out of the Europa League.

Arsenal drew 0-0 with Red Star Belgrade in the Europa League on Thursday night.

Arsenal are in a surprisingly commanding position in their Europa League tie against AC Milan, so let's take a look at who else could cause the team problems if they finish the job on Thursday.