Arsenal have work to do if they are to reach the last 16 of the Europa League after slipping to a surprise 1-0 first-leg defeat to BATE in Belarus as Lacazette sent off.

2018/2019 UEFA Europa League

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Match Events

45'GOAL! BATE 1-0 Arsenal (Dragun)

GOAL!!! BATE are in front!! Dragun makes it 1-0 to the hosts as he evades his marker in the box to head the free-kick high above Cech and into the back of the net! Arsenal look shell-shocked! 

55' DISALLOWED GOAL! Lacazette's shot offside

NO GOAL! Arsenal move the ball quickly and Iwobi finds Kolasinac, who curls a lovely cross in for Lacazette and he dispatches it well at the near post, but the flag goes up for offside! Arsenal are fuming, but it looks to be the right decision.

85: RED CARD FOR LACAZETTE!

RED CARD! Lacazette is being grappled by Filipovic and he responds by lashing out with an elbow! The referee brandishes the red card immediately and the striker is off! He's let his frustration get to him and could have cost his team as a result. 

Match Reports

Stanislav Dragun headed in the only goal of the game as Arsenal had Alexandre Lacazette sent off in a shock defeat in Belarus.

Unai Emery's side were caught cold in sub-zero temperatures on the stroke of half-time, Stanislav Dragun's header ending their run of five successive clean sheets in the competition.

Alexandre Lacazette had a potential equaliser ruled out for offside before he was shown a straight red card for throwing an elbow at Aleksandar Filipovic in the closing minutes.

Match ratings

Line-ups

BATE XI: Alyaksandr Hleb, Egor Filipenko, Aleksey Rios, Igor Stasevich, Nemanja Milic, Dmitri Baga, Maksim Skavysh, Stanislav Dragun, Aleksandar Filipovic, Denis Scherbitski, Z. Volkov

Subs: Slobodan Simovic, B. Dubajić, Hervaine Moukam, Evgeni Yablonski, Evgeni Berezkin, Anton Chichkan, D. Bessmertny

Arsenal XI: P. Čech, Nacho Monreal, Koscielny, Mkhitaryan, Lacazette, Mustafi, G. Xhaka, Kolasinac, A. Iwobi, A.M Niles, M. Guendouzi

Subs: S. Lichtsteiner, Aubameyang, Bernd Leno, D.Suárez, M.Elneny, L. Torreira, Nketiah

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