Napoli v Arsenal: Europa League quarter-final, second leg – live!

18 April 2019 06:37
Live updates from the 8pm kick-offYou can email Scott here with your thoughtsEmery urges Arsenal to seize the momentLive scoreboard: the latest from all the quarter-finals 7.37pm BST Unai Emery speaks. He wanted to score more goals last week, but it was also important not to concede an away goal, and they managed that. They want to score today, to win today. They are ready for anything that can happen. They are going to use their heart, but also their head. 7.33pm BST A brief peek inside the Arsenal sanctum. As you can see, they’ll be playing in their famous first-choice shirts tonight. Everyone apart from Sokratis has some bottles of pink isotonic bevvy lined up. Sokratis has two red cans to get through instead. Not sure what’s in them. Coke comes in a red can. So does McEwan’s Export. Perhaps it’s McEwan’s Export. Laurent Koscielny has a nice enough pennant to hand over, but you can only prise so much gravitas out of that badge. Such a shame they got rid of 1949’s Victoria Concordia Crescit number, but I suppose I’m behind the times. Speaking of which, the dressing room has that sparse but fully functional feel of a 1960s municipal building about it, and there’s nothing wrong with that. I’ll level with you, kick-off can’t come soon enough. 7.07pm BST Napoli boss Carlo Ancelotti has made three changes to the team named for the first leg. Former Tottenham defender Vlad Chiriches comes in along with Faouzi Ghoulam and Arkadiusz Milik. Dropping to the bench: Mario Rui, Dries Mertens and Elseid Hysaj.Arsenal manager Unai Emery makes just one change from the first leg. Mesut Ozil drops to the bench, making way for the much more defensive-minded Granit Xhaka. 7.01pm BST Napoli: Meret, Maksimovic, Chiriches, Koulibaly, Ghoulam, Callejon, Allan, Fabian, Zielinski, Milik, Insigne.Subs: Ospina, Malcuit, Rui, Verdi, Mertens, Hysaj, Younes.Arsenal: Cech, Papastathopoulos, Koscielny, Monreal, Maitland-Niles, Torreira, Xhaka, Kolasinac, Ramsey, Lacazette, Aubameyang.Subs: Leno, Elneny, Mkhitaryan, Ozil, Iwobi, Mustafi, Guendouzi. 3.06pm BST For those of you fond of a correct-score prediction . here are the results of all the previous matches played between these two clubs.Arsenal 2-0 Napoli (1 Oct 2013) Napoli 2-0 Arsenal (11 Dec 2013) Arsenal 2-0 Napoli (11 April 2019) Continue readingreadfullarticle

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