Arsenal vs Vorskala Europa League Preview

Arsenal vs Vorskla Poltava

Bernd Leno and Lucas Torreira are in line for their first Arsenal starts as the Gunners host Vorskla Poltava in their Europa League game on Thursday at 20:00.  
Unai Emery won the competition three times with Sevilla - is expected to make a whole heap of changes, with Bernd Leno yet to feature for the Gunners since his summer move from Bayer Leverkusen.
Lucas Torreira may also be given his chance to impress, with Emery adding that any of the players who start on Thursday could be in line to feature against Everton on Sunday. 

Arsenal were the losing semi-finalists in the Europa League to eventual winners Atletico Madrid in last seasons campaign, but Vorskla Poltava manager Vasyl Sachko says his side are capable of getting a win.
"Our club is writing history, writing history for our city and that is a huge honour for us," he said. "We haven't come here just for a stroll in the park, we understand that Arsenal are the favourites but nevertheless our team is capable of pulling off this feat. "Arsenal are not a Europa League team, they are a Champions League team. We are going to motivate our players to play well and give a good account of themselves."
Mohamed Elneny, Danny Welbeck and Stephan Lichtsteiner will be pushing for rare starts for the Gunners .
However, Laurent Koscielny Sead Kolasinac, Ainsley Maitland-Niles, and Carl Jenkinson all remain absent.
This will be the first-ever competitive meeting between Arsenal and Vorskla Poltava. Vorskla Poltava are appearing in only their second UEFA Europa League campaign in its current format (since 2009-10). In their first, they won just two points from six group stages matches and scored only four goals.
Vorskla Poltava finished as the third best team in the Ukrainian Premier League in 2017- 18. With 49 points from 32 games to their name, they finished a hefty 26 points behind winners Shakhtar Donetsk and 24 points behind 2nd placed Dynamo Kyiv.
My team for tonight 
Leno 
Lichsteiner 
Mavropanos 
Holding
Odsei-Tutu 

 Elneny
Torreira 

 Welbeck 
Ramsey 
Willock
Nketiah 

Score Prediction - Arsenal 4-1 Vorskla Poltava






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