Right then, like Unai Emery any day now, I’ll be off. Bye!
Arsenal suffered another demoralising defeat at a half-empty Emirates Stadium, while Wolves progressed from Group K and Celtic won Group E
Thu 28 Nov 2019 17.31 EST
First published on Thu 28 Nov 2019 12.06 EST- Final score: Arsenal 1-2 Eintracht Frankfurt
- Final score: Celtic 3-1 Rennes
- GOAL! Celtic 3-1 Rennes (Hunou, 89 mins)
- GOAL! Celtic 3-0 Rennes (Johnston, 74 mins)
- GOAL! Arsenal 1-2 Eintracht Frankfurt (Kamada, 64 mins)
- GOAL! Arsenal 1-1 Eintracht Frankfurt (Kamada, 55 mins)
- GOAL! Celtic 2-0 Rennes (Christie, 45+2 mins)
- GOAL! Arsenal 1-0 Eintracht Frankfurt (Aubameyang, 45+2 mins)
- GOAL! Celtic 1-0 Rennes (Morgan, 21 mins)!
- Full-time: Braga 3-3 Wolves
- Full-time: Feyenoord 2-2 Rangers
- GOAL! Braga 3-3 Wolves (Fransergio 78)
- GOAL! Feyenoord 2-2 Rangers (Sinisterra 66)
- GOAL! Braga 2-3 Wolves (Paulinho 64)
- GOAL! Feyenoord 1-2 Rangers (Morelos 65)
- Celtic team
- GOAL! Feyenoord 1-1 Rangers (Morelos 52)
- Arsenal team v Eintracht Frankfurt
- GOAL! Braga 1-3 Wolves (Traoré 35)
- GOAL! Braga 1-2 Wolves (Doherty 34)
- GOAL! Feyenoord 1-0 Rangers (Helander og 33)
- GOAL! Braga 1-1 Wolves (Jimenez 13)
- GOAL! Braga 1-0 Wolevs (A Horta 6)
- Result: Astana 2-1 Manchester United
- Feyenoord v Rangers teams
- Braga v Wolves teams:
- Preamble
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- Final score: Arsenal 1-2 Eintracht Frankfurt
- Final score: Celtic 3-1 Rennes
- GOAL! Celtic 3-1 Rennes (Hunou, 89 mins)
- GOAL! Celtic 3-0 Rennes (Johnston, 74 mins)
- GOAL! Arsenal 1-2 Eintracht Frankfurt (Kamada, 64 mins)
- GOAL! Arsenal 1-1 Eintracht Frankfurt (Kamada, 55 mins)
- GOAL! Celtic 2-0 Rennes (Christie, 45+2 mins)
- GOAL! Arsenal 1-0 Eintracht Frankfurt (Aubameyang, 45+2 mins)
- GOAL! Celtic 1-0 Rennes (Morgan, 21 mins)!
- Full-time: Braga 3-3 Wolves
- Full-time: Feyenoord 2-2 Rangers
- GOAL! Braga 3-3 Wolves (Fransergio 78)
- GOAL! Feyenoord 2-2 Rangers (Sinisterra 66)
- GOAL! Braga 2-3 Wolves (Paulinho 64)
- GOAL! Feyenoord 1-2 Rangers (Morelos 65)
- Celtic team
- GOAL! Feyenoord 1-1 Rangers (Morelos 52)
- Arsenal team v Eintracht Frankfurt
- GOAL! Braga 1-3 Wolves (Traoré 35)
- GOAL! Braga 1-2 Wolves (Doherty 34)
- GOAL! Feyenoord 1-0 Rangers (Helander og 33)
- GOAL! Braga 1-1 Wolves (Jimenez 13)
- GOAL! Braga 1-0 Wolevs (A Horta 6)
- Result: Astana 2-1 Manchester United
- Feyenoord v Rangers teams
- Braga v Wolves teams:
- Preamble
Here’s Nick Ames’ match report from the Emirates:
For 54 minutes it was tempting to wonder whether this low-key encounter, watched by a sparse attendance and trundling along nicely enough in Arsenal’s favour, might one day go down in history as the night a troubled head coach began clawing his way back from the brink. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s goal had left them looking as comfortable as this team ever can, and there was even the good news story of a quiet reintegration for Granit Xhaka, who had performed tidily enough. Then Daichi Kamada struck two bolts from the blue for Eintracht Frankfurt and it is impossible to escape the conclusion that, no matter what Unai Emery tries, his tenure is doomed to fail.
Much more here:
Unai Emery faces the cameras:
Yes, we lost here and for the Europa League we continue. We have the last match to achieve our objective. Today I think we improve. In the first half we deserved to win. The second half, the first five, 10 minutes or so wasn’t good for us. We lost control for 15 minutes and they scored two goals. The first half we controlled all the game. We created chances to score a second goal. The second half as well, for five or 10 minutes was positive. Then we lost control of the game, they pushed and scored two goals. We tried again to come back, but really we didn’t push, we didn’t create a big opportunity to score. We think we deserved more, but we lost control of the game for 15 minutes and they achieved their result in that moment.
I am being positive but above all realistic. We lost a very good opportunity to reach the next round tonight. I’m thinking about the next match.
I rather missed the complete Rosenbergness of the Malmo match. Here’s the scene before kick-off:
He captains the team, and scores twice in an absolute humdinger of a game, including in the winner in the fourth minute of stoppage time:
Followed by wild post-game celebrations, curtain-calls and tributes:
Malmo v Dynamo Kyiv got the last-minute winner it deserved, incidentally. Markus Rosenberg scored it. It is his last home game for Malmo, ahead of his imminent retirement. Fairytale stuff.
All the final scores of tonight’s 8pm kick-offs:
Group A
Dudelange 0-2 Apoel Nicosia
Sevilla 2-0 Qarabag
Group B
Lugano 0-1 Copenhagen
Malmo 4-3 Dynamo Kyiv
Group D
Rosenborg 1-2 LASK
Sporting 4-0 PSV Eindhoven
Group E
Celtic 3-1 Rennes
Lazio 1-0 Cluj
Group F
Arsenal 1-2 Eintracht Frankfurt
Vitoria Guimaraes 1-1 Standard Liege
“We just witnessed an absolute shambles of a performance in the second half,” rages Martin Keown.
Final score: Arsenal 1-2 Eintracht Frankfurt
Boos echo around a largely already-empty Emirates Stadium as the final whistle blows on another Arsenal defeat. Seven games without a win now, and is there any way back from this for Unai Emery?
Final score: Celtic 3-1 Rennes
Another European win for Celtic, who are now guaranteed first place in Group E after a comfortable victory over Rennes.
90+2 mins: Guendouzi throws a frustrated elbow into the nearest opponent, and is booked.
90+1 mins: There will be three minutes of stoppage time at Arsenal. Celtic, meanwhile, are playing the last of four advertised minutes.
90 mins: The corner is worked to Saka, whose shot from 20 yards is blocked.
89 mins: The Arsenal fans don’t know whether to boo or leave. Their team is making a late effort, and Willock’s cross is headed behind for a corner.
89 mins: A penalty shout! Saka goes down in the area, but the referee couldn’t be less interested.
GOAL! Celtic 3-1 Rennes (Hunou, 89 mins)
A consolation for Rennees in Glasgow! It’s a fine cross from the left and a fine run from Hunou, across the defender, and his header flashes in at the near post.
84 mins: Eintracht keep threatening, but they also keep trying to dribble round lots of Arsenal players in the penalty area. If they just hurried up and shot, they might score another yet.
83 mins: Abraham, the Frankfurt captain, goes down for a while in apparent pain. And then he gets up and walks away. His antics earn him some loud booing.
80 mins: Arsenal have basically stopped attacking. Or at least, they’ve stopped shooting. The game is drifting away from them.
They just won’t stop scoring at Malmo. Dynamov Kyiv’s Benjamin Verbic has made it 3-3 there now.
76 mins: Mustafi has indeed had to go off, and Torreira has come on to replace him, forcing Xhaka into defence. A team that started with three centre-backs on the pitch now has one.
GOAL! Celtic 3-0 Rennes (Johnston, 74 mins)
A fine one-two with Ntcham, a great first touch, and a precise low finish across goal from Michael Johnston puts Celtic in a three-goal lead, and they are totally bossing Group E!
69 mins: Nearly a third for Frankfurt! Gacinovic is played in down the left, but Sokratis manages to keep up with him, and get a boot in the way of the shot when it comes.
67 mins: Mustafi required a bit of treatment after that second goal, and it looks like he might have to go off here. That would be Arsenal’s final substitution, and certainly not how Emery would like to use it.
GOAL! Arsenal 1-2 Eintracht Frankfurt (Kamada, 64 mins)
Ozil’s arrival hasn’t changed the course of the Gunners game! Martínez makes an excellent save, but when the ensuing corner is headed to the edge of the area there are three black shirts there, in all sorts of space. Kamada collects the ball, composes himself, and under no pressure whatsoever sends it arrowing towards the bottom corner!
The goals are flying in now across the continent. Erdal Rakip has made it Malmo 3-2 Dynamo Kyiv in what sounds like an absolute belter, Meanwhile Bryan Gil has scored for Sevilla against Qarabag, which is great news for Ciaran.
60 mins: Emery has acted, by taking off Martinelli and bringing on Ozil.
57 mins: The goal has been coming, even if Eintracht hadn’t created many clear chances. They made two changes at half-time, bringing on Kohr and Gacinovic for Fernandes and Andre Silva, and they have dominated the game since the restart.
GOAL! Arsenal 1-1 Eintracht Frankfurt (Kamada, 55 mins)
An equaliser! Kamada collects the ball on the edge of the area, on the right-hand side, facing away from goal. He’s allowed to spin, come infield and curl a lovely left-footer inside the far post!
47 mins: Chance for Arsenal! And another chance for Arsenal! Martinelli tees up Willock, whose shot should have gone in but instead went wide, off a defender’s leg. And from the corner Xhaka ghosts past his man and pulls back to Chambers, who wellies his shot way high!
The goals just keep coming in Malmo, where Markus Rosenberg, who is presumably on loan from the 2006 World Cup, has equalised for the home side against Dynamo Kyiv. Rosenberg is 37 now.
Ciarán is at the Ramón Sanchez Pijuan for the Sevilla v Qarabag game! And he’s sent in a half-time report. There the good news ends, though:
Just in case you’re wondering, there’s absolutely nothing going on. Sevilla, somehow, started the game eight points above second place, and played with an obvious and understandable lack of energy. Chicharito, looking a lot heavier than I remembered him, hasn’t even tested Asmir Begovic in what they’re already calling the battle of former Premier League players.
Play is back under way at Celtic. And probably some other places. Not, though, at Arsenal, thanks to all those first-half stoppages.
On one hand, the Arsenal match has been very slow-paced and underwhelming. On the other hand, there’s hardly anyone there so on a per-capita basis they’ve surely had more excitement per head than normal.
And a report from Feyenoord, where a point was single-handedly won for Rangers by Morelos, more or less:
And some half-time reading, firstly a report on Wolves’ ding-dong Braga-based draw:
All your half-time scores:
Group A
Dudelange 0-2 Apoel Nicosia
Sevilla 0-0 Qarabag
Group B
Lugano 0-1 Copenhagen
Malmo 1-2 Dynamo Kyiv
Group D
Rosenborg 1-1 LASK
Sporting 3-0 PSV Eindhoven
Group E
Celtic 2-0 Rennes
Lazio 1-0 Cluj
Group F
Arsenal 1-0 Eintracht Frankfurt
Vitoria Guimaraes 1-1 Standard Liege
45+4 mins: They’re playing five minutes of stoppage time at Arsenal, where Xhaka is back on the pitch and skewing a shot wide from the edge of the box.
GOAL! Celtic 2-0 Rennes (Christie, 45+2 mins)
Ryan Christie has doubled Celtic’s lead just before half-time! It’s a decent shot, and it bounces nastily on its way inside the near post from 20 yards or so, but the keeper should absolutely have got a bit of himself in the way of that one.
GOAL! Arsenal 1-0 Eintracht Frankfurt (Aubameyang, 45+2 mins)
Martinelli slides the ball across the area from the right, and Aubameyang’s shot hits the bottom of a defender’s outstretched leg, and the top of the goalkeeper’s outstretched leg, and then the bottom of the crossbar, and then bounces, and then goes in!
A couple of away goals to tell you about: Maxime Lestienne has given Standard Liege a 1-0 lead at Guimaraes, in Arsenal’s group. And Giorgos Merkis makes it Dudelange 0-1 Apoel Nicosia.
43 mins: Another injury at Arsenal, where Xhaka has had lengthy treatment to his right knee.
41 mins: Saka has a chance at the end of a bizarrely slow-paced Arsenal move, but it’s straight at the keeper.
It’s all going off in Malmo, where Viktor Tsygankov has given Dynamo Kyiv a 2-1 lead.
34 mins: Martinelli gets a caution for fouling Kostic, who was himself booked a while ago. Consider yourselves up to date on Arsenal-based bookings.
32 mins: David Luiz has played on for a while, but is unable to run off the mysterious injury that mysteriously injured him earlier. He’s off, and Guendouzi is on.
30 mins: Saka is played through, but Rönnow comes out well to get in the way of the shot. He seems to have hurt his ankle in the process, and the physios are now on.
Lazio lead Cluj 1-0, thanks to a goal from Joaquin Correa. Not to be confused with Eddie Izzard, who’s had a joking career.
28 mins: Another chance for Celtic! Ntcham shoots from just outside the area, and aims it expertly for the far post, but the keeper makes a good save.
GOAL! Celtic 1-0 Rennes (Morgan, 21 mins)!
An excellent cut-back, a fine first-time finish and Celtic are in the lead! That was a fine move, filleting the French side down their left flank, and an all-round good goal.
Dynamo Kyiv have equalised at Malmo! The young defender Vitaliy Mykolenko has done the scoring. Also, Thomas Goiginger has given LASK a 0-1 advantage at Rosenborg.
More goals: Uros Matic has scored from the spot to give Apoel Nicosia a 0-1 lead at Dudelange. And Bruno Fernandes has doubled Sporting’s lead over PSV.
16 mins: Amazing miss/save combo! And then a goalline clearance! Xhaka swings in a corner, and an absolutely bonkers defensive header sends the ball straight to Martinelli, unmarked and six yards out, who’s got a tap-in! He taps straight into the keeper. Another corner, and this time Martinelli heads it at the near post, and it’s headed off the line at the far!
Sporting have taken the lead against PSV, through Luiz Phellype. Victory would take the Portuguese side through tonight.