again turned to his blundering centre-back and the attackers had to atone for his team’s defensive failingsBefore this match Valencia had always had Arsenal’s number. They had won all three previous ties between the pair and then, in 2016, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/aug/30/arsenal-complete-signing-shkodran-mustafi" title="">took £35m off the Gunners for Shkodran Mustafi</a>. That is what folks in north London might refer to as being properly mugged off and if it did not exactly make this a grudge match, it at least reinforced the need for Arsenal to win for their own sense of worth, before anything else. That was true for Mustafi...
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