Arsenal draw 2-1 with Slavia Prague
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Sam PrestonMarch 19, 2021
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Arsenal’s reward for overtaking Olympiacos is a Europa League quarter-final against Slavia Prague.
Arsenal are one of the favourites to win the game, but the Czech side is not easy to pick.
Of course, ties have positive and negative elements, and we’ve picked three of them.
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Confronting an Outsider on Paper
Arsenal are the first choice to win trophies, while Slavia is an outsider – on paper.
They don’t have the European pedigree that Arsenal have, and they don’t have the same quality of players.
There have been some historic big clubs in the last eight draws and Arsenal have transformed them.
It’s not an easy task, but Mikel Arteta’s side have yet to get the toughest draw yet.
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The road to Gdansk could be worse
If Arsenal win this match, they will face Villarreal or Dinamo Zagreb in the semi-final.
That means they have avoided the likes of Roma, Manchester United and Ajax until the final in Gdansk.
It felt like they were halfway through a draw – but they certainly couldn’t take anything for granted.
We all know what Slavia Prague is capable of, which puts us in a negative position…
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they beat two british
Slavia have knocked out Leicester and Rangers so far.
They are definitely not cups. They had home-field advantage in both games before coming to England with important away victories.
Nicolae Stanciu is one of the most dangerous attacking midfielders in the game. Vladimir Coufal and Tomas Soucek have arrived in England from Slavia and the Romanian looks capable of doing the same.
Arsenal will have to watch out for being caught by a team that has caused an upset this season.
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Sam Preston is an NCTJ Gold Standard News and Sports Reporter who studied at the Press Association. He also holds a 2:1 Law and French Law degree from the University of Birmingham, which includes a year of study at the University of Montaigne in Bordeaux. He is an FA Level 1 football coach who appeared on the BBC’s Victoria Derby County programme in 2018 and has also written digital football content and games for Colchester United, Mansfield Town and Stockport County day program.
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