Basel 1-4 Arsenal: result and report

Champions League · Tuesday 6 December 2016

Result

Basel 1-4 Arsenal

Champions League · Tuesday 6 December 2016, 19:45 UTC · half-time 0-2

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Basel 1-4 Arsenal: match report

Basel lost to Arsenal 1-4 in the Champions League on Tuesday 6 December 2016. The half-time score was 0-2.

Lucas Pérez opened the scoring in the 8th minute. Basel's goal came from Seydou Doumbia (78'). Arsenal scored through Lucas Pérez (8'), Lucas Pérez (16'), Lucas Pérez (47') and Alex Iwobi (53').

Discipline: Basel received 1 yellow card; Arsenal received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Basel were 59th on 2 points from 5 and Arsenal 14th on 11 points from 5. This fixture belongs to an earlier Champions League season and is kept for reference.

Basel lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Arsenal in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Lucas Pérez of Arsenal (8.4), ahead of Alexis Sánchez (7.8).

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

Going into the match Basel's last five read D-L-L-L-D and Arsenal's D-W-W-W-D.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 8'Goal · Lucas PérezArsenal · 0-1
  • 16'Goal · Lucas PérezArsenal · 0-2
  • 36'Yellow card · K. GibbsArsenal
  • 47'Goal · Lucas PérezArsenal · 0-3
  • 53'Goal · Alex IwobiArsenal · 0-4
  • 66'Yellow card · Éder BalantaBasel
  • 78'Goal · Seydou DoumbiaBasel · 1-4

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Basel 0, draws 0, Arsenal 1.

Team news

Basel line-up (4-2-3-1)

Tomas Vaclik, Michael Lang, Marek Suchy, Éder Balanta, Adama Traoré, Serey Dié, Taulant Xhaka, Mohamed Elyounoussi, Matías Delgado, Renato Steffen, Marc Janko

Arsenal line-up (4-2-3-1)

David Ospina, Gabriel Paulista, Rob Holding, Laurent Koscielny, Kieran Gibbs, Aaron Ramsey, Granit Xhaka, Lucas Pérez, Mesut Özil, Alex Iwobi, Alexis Sánchez