Monaco are a footing into the quarter-finals of the Uefa Champions League as Yannick Ferreira-Carrasco’s late strike ended a cruel night for Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium on Wednesday.
Second half substitute Alex-Oxlade Chamberlain offered the Londoners a lifeline in injury time after Geoffrey Kondogbia and Dimitar Berbatov had placed Monaco in comfortable lead, but the Gunners conceded possession cheaply to allow Ferreira-Carrasco to grab a third goal enough to send Monaco into the last 8 for the first time since 2003/04.
Arsene Wenger’s men now need to score three goals at the principality club in the return leg in over three weeks’ time to stand a chance of reaching the quarter-finals for the first time since 2010. The concern is that Monaco have not conceded three goals at home in a single game all season.
Geoffrey Kondogbia Celebrates After Scoring the Opener at the Emirates Stadium. Image: AFP/Getty.
However, Arsenal were hard donned by their ambitions- pressing down the middle but with little or no variation to their attacking formation- while Monaco waited solidly in the defence to gnaw at their fragile back on the counter.
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