Arsenal 5-1 Shakhtar Donetsk: result and report
Champions League · Tuesday 19 October 2010
Result
Arsenal 5-1 Shakhtar Donetsk
Champions League · Tuesday 19 October 2010, 18:45 UTC · half-time 2-0
Arsenal 5-1 Shakhtar Donetsk: match report
Arsenal won against Shakhtar Donetsk 5-1 in the Champions League on Tuesday 19 October 2010. The half-time score was 2-0.
A. Song opened the scoring in the 19th minute. Arsenal's goals came from A. Song (19'), Samir Nasri (42'), Cesc Fàbregas (59', penalty), J. Wilshere (66') and Marouane Chamakh (69'). Shakhtar Donetsk scored through Eduardo da Silva (82').
Discipline: Arsenal received no yellow cards; Shakhtar Donetsk received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Arsenal were 20th on 6 points from 2 and Shakhtar Donetsk 21st on 6 points from 2. This fixture belongs to an earlier Champions League season and is kept for reference.
Arsenal lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Shakhtar Donetsk in a 4-2-3-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Arsenal win, 0 draws and 1 for Shakhtar Donetsk.
Key events
- 19'Goal · A. Song
- 42'Goal · Samir Nasri
- 58'Yellow card · Luiz Adriano
- 58'Yellow card · Tomas Hübschman
- 59'Penalty goal · Cesc Fàbregas
- 66'Goal · J. Wilshere
- 69'Goal · Marouane Chamakh
- 82'Goal · Eduardo da Silva
Head-to-head
Team news
Arsenal line-up (4-2-3-1)
Lukasz Fabianski, Sébastien Squillaci, Johan Djourou, Gaël Clichy, Emmanuel Eboué, Cesc Fàbregas, Tomáš Rosický, Samir Nasri, Alex Song, J. Wilshere, Marouane Chamakh
Shakhtar Donetsk line-up (4-2-3-1)
Andriy Pyatov, Razvan Rat, Darijo Srna, Yaroslav Rakitskyi, Tomáš Hübschman, Oleksiy Gai, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Alex Teixeira, Luiz Adriano, Willian, Oleksandr Kucher