Europa League: Why Arsenal failed to Beat Sporting Lisbon – Arteta

Arsenal manager, Mikel Arteta, has reacted to his side’s 2-2 draw with Sporting Lisbon in the Europa League last-16 first leg on Thursday.

The Gunners went ahead in the game thanks to William Saliba’s header in the first half, but the hosts came back into the game thanks to Goncalo Inacio and then went ahead after Paulinho’s finish.

Arsenal then leveled the game from a Granit Xhaka’s attempted pass that deflected off Hidemasa Morita into his own net.

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“When you concede two poor goals like we did away from home in Europe, it’s very difficult to get a positive result.

“The game had different phases because we gave too many simple balls away in our own half and gave them the capacity to (exploit) transition moments which they are good at,” Arteta said afterwards.