Arsenal 4-1 CSKA Moskva: result and report

Europa League · Thursday 5 April 2018

Result

Arsenal 4-1 CSKA Moskva

Europa League · Thursday 5 April 2018, 19:05 UTC · half-time 4-1

Arsenal · CSKA Moskva · Europa League predictions

Arsenal 4-1 CSKA Moskva: match report

Arsenal beat CSKA Moskva 4-1 in the Europa League on Thursday 5 April 2018. It was 4-1 at half-time.

Aaron Ramsey opened the scoring in the 9th minute. Arsenal's goals came from Aaron Ramsey (9'), Alexandre Lacazette (23', penalty), Aaron Ramsey (28') and Alexandre Lacazette (35'). CSKA Moskva scored through Aleksandr Golovin (15').

Discipline: Arsenal received 2 yellow cards; CSKA Moskva received 4 yellow cards.

Going into the game Arsenal were 9th on 22 points from 10 and CSKA Moskva 73rd on 7 points from 4. This fixture belongs to an earlier Europa League season and is kept for reference.

Arsenal lined up in a 4-3-3 and CSKA Moskva in a 3-4-2-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Mesut Özil of Arsenal (9.8), ahead of Aaron Ramsey (9.1).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Arsenal wins, 1 draw and 1 for CSKA Moskva.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 9'Goal · Aaron RamseyArsenal · 1-0
  • 15'Goal · Aleksandr GolovinCSKA Moskva · 1-1
  • 23'Penalty goal · Alexandre LacazetteArsenal · 2-1
  • 28'Goal · Aaron RamseyArsenal · 3-1
  • 31'Yellow card · Alan DzagoevCSKA Moskva
  • 35'Goal · Alexandre LacazetteArsenal · 4-1
  • 51'Yellow card · Ahmed MusaCSKA Moskva
  • 57'Yellow card · Granit XhakaArsenal
  • 58'Yellow card · Georgiy ShchennikovCSKA Moskva
  • 74'Yellow card · Igor AkinfeevCSKA Moskva
  • 78'Yellow card · Héctor BellerínArsenal

Head-to-head

2 meetings: Arsenal 0, draws 1, CSKA Moskva 1.

Team news

Arsenal line-up (4-3-3)

Petr Čech, Héctor Bellerín, Shkodran Mustafi, Laurent Koscielny, Nacho Monreal, Aaron Ramsey, Granit Xhaka, J. Wilshere, Mesut Özil, Alexandre Lacazette, Henrikh Mkhitaryan

CSKA Moskva line-up (3-4-2-1)

Igor Akinfeev, Vasily Berezutskiy, Sergey Ignashevich, Aleksei Berezutskiy, Konstantin Kuchaev, Bibras Natcho, Aleksandr Golovin, Georgi Schennikov, Alan Dzagoev, Ahmed Musa, Pontus Wernbloom