Europa League

Olympiacos manager Pedro Martins promises his team are ready to fight, despite the difficulties he expects to face from Arsenal.

VAR will be used in the Europa League knock-out stages which start this week with Arsenal welcoming Olympiacos to the Emirates.

Arsenal face Olympiacos in their Europa League Round-of-32 first leg on Thursday, on the back of a big win over Newcastle United.

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?

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

Arsenal sealed top spot in their group and ensured a more favourable draw for the knock-out round of the Europa League, but it was not pretty.

Tyreece John-Jules, James Olayinka and Robbie Burton could make their Arsenal debuts on Thursday, joining the first-team squad in Liege.

Arsenal have racked up a total of seven players unavailable for the trip to Standard Liege on Thursday thanks to injury or suspension.

Freddie Ljungberg may have to call on a number of the young players in the Arsenal squad for the trip to Standard Liege on Thursday.

Arsenal travel to Liege on Thursday to play their final Europa League group stage game, with a number of permutations for the final standings in Group F.

Arsenal lost 2-1 to Eintracht Frankfurt on Thursday, in what would turn out to be Unai Emery’s final game as head coach of the club.

Arsenal sunk to a new low against Eintrach Frankfurt when they blew another lead to lose 2-1 extending their run without a win to seven, a sequence not seen since 1992.

Unai Emery showed a great deal of optimism about his future as he met with the press ahead of Arsenal’s tie against Frankfurt on Thursday by saying his future is “today AND tomorrow.”

Arsenal gave away another lead in an incredibly boring draw away to Vitoria to drop their first points of the Europa League group stage.

Arsenal looked like they were going to scrape a one nil win in Portugal against Vitoria only to throw it away in true Emery fashion but regardless of the result, the game left fans more desperate than ever to get rid of their head coach.

Arsenal go into today’s game against Vitoria knowing that a win will all but seal qualification for the next stage of the competition and the teams are in ahead of the match.

Vitoria manager, Ivo Vieira, will present Unai Emery with a bottle of Portuguese wine when the two sides meet for the second time in the Europa League, leaving it at home for the first meeting in London.

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Arsenal staged a late comeback on Thursday night thanks largely to Nicolas Pepe, coming from behind to beat Vitoria 3-2 at the Emirates Stadium.

Nicolas Pepe arrived in North London on Thursday night with two delightful free-kicks to save Arsenal – and Unai Emery’s – blushes, but the match leaves more pressure on Unai Emery and fans even more certain he isn’t the man for the job.