Apologies for being excessively Anglo-centric, but here’s how the Premier League boyz got to this stage of the tournament. Arsenal beat BATE through the natural, obvious goalscorers of...*checks notes*...Shkodran Mustafi and Sokratis Papastathopoulos.
Related: Shkodran Mustafi header helps Arsenal to progress at expense of Bate Borisov Related: Callum Hudson-Odoi seals comfortable win for Chelsea over Malmö Related: Sarri: slow start against Malmö showed Jorghino’s importance to Chelsea Just a small amend to the intro: there is one restriction to the draw, in that teams from Russia and Ukraine cannot be drawn together, for obvious geopolitical reasons. So first out of the hat will be Dynamo Kyiv, who’ll be kept well away from Krasnodar and Zenit, and then we can get on with the rest of it. Continue reading... |