Atlético de Madrid 1-0 Arsenal: result and report
Europa League · Thursday 3 May 2018
Result
Atlético de Madrid 1-0 Arsenal
Europa League · Thursday 3 May 2018, 19:05 UTC · half-time 1-0
Atlético de Madrid 1-0 Arsenal: match report
Atlético de Madrid won against Arsenal 1-0 in the Europa League on Thursday 3 May 2018. It was 1-0 at half-time.
The only goal came from Diego Costa of Atlético de Madrid in the 45th minute.
Discipline: Atlético de Madrid received 3 yellow cards; Arsenal received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Atlético de Madrid were 18th on 16 points from 7 and Arsenal 4th on 27 points from 13. This fixture belongs to an earlier Europa League season and is kept for reference.
Atlético de Madrid lined up in a 4-4-2 and Arsenal in a 4-3-2-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Granit Xhaka of Arsenal (8.1), ahead of Antoine Griezmann (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Atlético de Madrid wins, 1 draw and 0 for Arsenal.
Going into the match Atlético de Madrid's last five read D-L-W-W-W and Arsenal's D-D-W-W-W.
Key events
- 42'Yellow card · J. Wilshere
- 45+2'Goal · Diego Costa
- 52'Yellow card · Gabi
- 58'Yellow card · Nacho Monreal
- 71'Yellow card · Saúl Ñíguez
- 78'Yellow card · Diego Costa
- 78'Yellow card · Nurgzay Khayrulin
Head-to-head
Team news
Atlético de Madrid line-up (4-4-2)
Jan Oblak, Thomas Partey, José María Giménez, Diego Godín, Lucas Hernández, Koke, Gabi, Saúl Ñíguez, Vitolo, Diego Costa, Antoine Griezmann
Arsenal line-up (4-3-2-1)
David Ospina, Héctor Bellerín, Shkodran Mustafi, Laurent Koscielny, Nacho Monreal, Aaron Ramsey, Granit Xhaka, J. Wilshere, Danny Welbeck, Mesut Özil, Alexandre Lacazette