Olympiakos gives Arsenal a hard time before succumbing to its host

Olympiakos is returning to Greece empty-handed aft its Champions League crippled with Arsenal successful London, having mislaid 2-0, but its show bodes well for its aboriginal successful the competition, erstwhile it starts uncovering the nett aft 180 barren minutes.

No uncertainty Arsenal was the amended team connected Wednesday nighttime astatine the Emirates Stadium, but the Greek champion worked hard and contained its big astir of the times. Of people its beforehand enactment will person to rise its crippled to marque its mark.

Just 12 minutes into the game, Viktor Gyokeres challenged by himself the full Olympiakos defence and braved its tough marking to participate the box, lone to get denied by the upright. However Gabriel Martinelli was contiguous to get the rebound and people with a elemental tap-in.

Arsenal produced a fistful of chances successful the remainder of the archetypal fractional and aboriginal successful the second, but without being the attacking instrumentality the Gunners person got its fans used to see.

Olympiakos was forced to propulsion guardant successful hunt for an equalizer, leaving some unfastened spaces astatine the backmost that the strong attackers of Arsenal repeatedly tried to utilize, but without success successful their counters.

Halfway done the 2nd half, Olympiakos had a extremity correctly disallowed arsenic offside, but that gave the Reds some much confidence. 

In the past 5 minutes Olympiakos manager Jose Luis Mendilibar thought astir trying his luck and introduced three players astatine erstwhile to get that elusive goal. Arsenal punished that with its 2nd goal, scoring erstwhile again successful wounded time, this clip with Bukayo Saka from the near broadside of the container having been fed by Martin Odegaard..

Up adjacent Olympiakos has different tough roadworthy game, travelling to Barcelona connected October 21. For present it has 1 constituent from two games.