We’ll only know the true significance of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s late goal next Thursday night, but the man himself suspects that it could be “important”. It was Alex Lacazette’s double that gave us a 2-1 first-leg lead over Valencia at Emirates Stadium, and there was a sense that we needed to capitalise on a spell of late pressure to make the second leg in Spain just that little bit simpler. Aubameyang obliged with a far-post finish from Sead Kolasinac’s cross - his fifth Europa League goal on home soil this season. “Yeah, I think that goal will hopefully be important,” he said after the game. “We started the game not so good, but we had a good reaction after that...
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