![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/arsenal-winners-and-losers-vs-zurich-as-tierney-sends-arteta-firm-reminder/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/0_Arsenal-FC-v-FC-Zrich-Group-A-UEFA-Europa-League.jpg&description=Premier League leaders Arsenal have reached the last 16 of this season's Europa League after beating FC Zurich at the Emirates on Thursday night to top their groupArsenal V FC Zurich In Pictures Can Arsenal, masters of Swiss timing, win the Europa League? Of quartz they can. Kieran Tierney fired the Gunners safely into the knockout phase as group winners with his first goal in 2022. And as Arsenal maintained their 100 per cent record against Swiss opponents in Europe - played eight, won eight - it turned into a ripping yarn for their matchwinner. Come on you shreds? Tierney's No.3 jersey was torn open, like the packaging a toddler's birthday present, by Zurich defender Nikola Boranijasevic. Incredibly, hopeless Belgian ref Erik Lambrechts didn't even administer a card - but at least it didn't matter. Tierney said: "We wanted to get the game done by 60 or 70 minutes but we never did that. We just had to show fight and hunger because Zürich came here with so much of that. It's just a shame we didn't score more. It's hard to say why - we won 5-0 a few days ago." European football's governing body UEFA are likely to take a dim view of the ridiculous palls of smoke which provided a Bonfire Night preview for north London. Dozens of Zurich supporters smuggled flares, fireworks and assorted pyrotechnics into the Emirates and at times it was like watching a game through a pea souper. Needing to match PSV Eindhoven's result against Bodo/Glimt to top the pile, Arsenal served up a mixed bag and they were clinging on for dear life at the end. Kieran Tierney scored Arsenal's winner against FC Zurich ( Marc Atkins/Getty Images) What did you make of Arsenal's performance against FC Zurich? Let us know in the comments below! Amid the rash of World Cup sick notes, Bukayo Saka's surprise return from the bench - after retiring hurt during the 5-0 rout of Nottingham Forest last Sunday - was a boost for England coach Gareth Southgate. But Gabriel Jesus is now seven games without a goal s){kind=link}
Premier League leaders Arsenal have reached the last 16 of this season’s Europa League after beating FC Zurich at the Emirates on Thursday night to top their group
Can Arsenal, masters of Swiss timing, win the Europa League? Of quartz they can.
Kieran Tierney fired the Gunners safely into the knockout phase as group winners with his first goal in 2022. And as Arsenal maintained their 100 per cent record against Swiss opponents in Europe – played eight, won eight – it turned into a ripping yarn for their matchwinner.
Come on you shreds? Tierney’s No.3 jersey was torn open, like the packaging a toddler’s birthday present, by Zurich defender Nikola Boranijasevic. Incredibly, hopeless Belgian ref Erik Lambrechts didn’t even administer a card – but at least it didn’t matter.
Tierney said: “We wanted to get the game done by 60 or 70 minutes but we never did that. We just had to show fight and hunger because Zürich came here with so much of that. It’s just a shame we didn’t score more. It’s hard to say why – we won 5-0 a few days ago.”