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Arsenal Concede Nightmare Goal After Bernd Leno And Dani Ceballos Disasterclass

Arsenal Concede Nightmare Goal After Bernd Leno And Dani Ceballos Disasterclass

It happened again.

Alex Reid

Alex Reid

Bernd Leno and Dani Ceballos combined as Arsenal conceded an absolute disaster of a goal against Olympiakos in the Europa League.

There seemed no threat at all when goalkeeper Leno received a pass as he stood outside of his goal. However he chose to pass the ball to Ceballos - when he had two Olympiakos players closing him down.

Ceballos's nervous touch allowed Youssef El-Arabi to pinch the ball off his toes and - with Leno stranded away from his goal - the Olympiakos player picked his spot in the back of the net to make the last-16 first leg 1-1 in Greece.

It was a cool finish by El-Arabi as Leno scrambled to get back - but no hiding the fact that was a diabolically self-inflicted goal from Mikel Arteta's side. Leno (primarily) and Ceballos had combined for a completely unnecessary concession.

However Arsenal showed their resilience (yes, correct) by firing back in the second half. A pair of terrific goals - a powerful, thumping header from Gabriel, plus a smashing strike from Mohamed Elneny - put Arsenal into a 3-1 lead away from home at full-time.

It meant, after Martin Odegaard's first-half rocket, that all three of Arsenal's goals on the night were special strikes.

So at least Leno and Ceballos could comfortably forget about their defensive cock-up - and hope the rest of the world did much the same

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Topics: Europa League, Arsenal, Bernd Leno