Olympiacos 'dig deep' for famous Arsenal win

Arsenal - Olympiacos

Arsenal Walcott 35 Alexis Sánchez 65

2-3

Olympiacos Pardo 33 Ospina 40 (og) Finnbogason 66

45' - Alfred Finnbogason for Ideye Brown 64' - Roberto 72' - Hernâni for Sebá 74' - Alfred Finnbogason 75' - Esteban Cambiasso 76' - Kostas Fortounis 86' - Praxitelis Vouros for Kostas Fortounis 43' - Alexis Sánchez 45' - Gabriel 56' - Per Mertesacker for Laurent Koscielny 59' - Aaron Ramsey for Francis Coquelin 77' - Mesut Özil 85' - Joel Campbell for Héctor Bellerín Goal Goal Goal Own goal Goal Match times and Game events Half time: 18:45 Full time: 20:30

Published: Tuesday 29 September 2015, 23.33CET

"Endurance and determination" were decisive in Olympiacos's unexpected win at Arsenal according to Marco Silva, Arsène Wenger pointing to a lack of concentration and luck.MATCH STATISTICS

Arsenal

Olympiacos

	2 Goals scored 3
	63 Possession (%) 37
	19 Total attempts 8
	9 on target 4
	5 off target 2
	5 blocked 2
	0 against woodwork 0
	8 Corners 4
	3 Offsides 1
	3 Yellow cards 4
	0 Red Cards 0
	11 Fouls committed 10
	9 Fouls suffered 9
	641 Passes 262
	568 completed 197

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LINEUPS

	Arsenal		Olympiacos
13	Ospina (GK) 40	16	Roberto (GK) (C) 64
3	Gibbs	3	Botía
5	Gabriel 45	7	Fortounis 77 87
6	Koscielny 57	11	Kasami
11	Özil 78	14	Elabdellaoui
14	Walcott 35	23	Siovas
15	Oxlade-Chamberlain	30	Leandro Salino
17	Alexis Sánchez 44 65	90	Pardo 33
19	Santi Cazorla (C)	91	Cambiasso 76
24	Bellerín 86	92	Sebá 73
34	Coquelin 60	99	Ideye 46
Substitutes
33	Čech (GK)	37	Kapino (GK)
2	Debuchy	9	Finnbogason 46 66 75
4	Mertesacker 57	10	Domínguez
16	Ramsey 60	17	Pulido
18	Monreal	26	Masuaku
21	Chambers	29	Vouros 87
28	Campbell 86	77	Hernâni 73
Coaches
Arsène Wenger (FRA)		Marco Silva (POR)

Arsène Wenger, Arsenal manager
It is still possible of course to qualify but it's difficult to swallow losing a game like that. We lost it on a lack of defensive concentration and bad luck. They had four shots on goal and we conceded three goals.

The turning point at 2-2 is we give them a goal again straight away. If it stays 2-2 for five minutes we win the game.

A goalkeeper can make a mistake; that doesn't explain that we lose the game. It happened to Petr Čech already this season [against West Ham].

Wenger bemoans Arsenal errors

Marco Silva, Olympiacos coach
I'm very happy with the result, because it was a very tough encounter. Olympiacos had never won on English soil and our players had to dig deep in order to believe in their chances and get what they wanted out of the game. We deserved this victory because we worked a lot in order to achieve it.

It was important for us to get the opening goal and then respond quickly after both Arsenal goals. The key factor today was our endurance. We ran a lot, we knew how to battle and how to remain determined to hold onto the result we