Arsenal 1-0 Qarabag: 3 reasons why Arsenal won

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2. Return of experienced players

Mesut Ozil, Laurent Koscielny, and Lacazette all made returns to the starting line-up after injury layoffs. Ozil didn’t have much to do except the wonderful assist for Lacazette, which won the game for Arsenal.

Monreal also came off the bench to get some very important game-time, as he makes his progress into the first team. Sokratis, another experienced player, played with good positional sense, rarely seen out of the zone and never gave a chance to the Qarabag attack.

Unai Emery’s belief in rotating the captaincy is seen as an important way of increasing bonding among the team members. Today it was the turn of Laurent Koscielny to don the captain’s armband and the Gunners would be happy to see their favorite defender play 70 minutes. Koscielny is likely to start in center defense with Nacho Monreal, against Southampton on Sunday.

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