UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2018/19 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS (First leg: 1-3) Arsenal Stadium - London Thursday 14 March 2019 Arsenal FC 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Stade Rennais FC Round of 16, Second leg Last updated 30/05/2019 11:50CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 5 Team facts 7 Squad list 9 Fixtures and results 13 Match-by-match lineups 17 Match officials 20 Legend 21 1 Arsenal FC - Stade Rennais FC Thursday 14 March 2019 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Arsenal Stadium, London Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Bourigeaud 42, 07/03/2019 R16 Stade Rennais FC - Arsenal FC 3-1 Rennes Monreal 65 (og), Sarr 88; Iwobi 4 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Arsenal FC 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 3 Stade Rennais FC 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 1 Arsenal FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Giroud 45+1 (P), Verratti 60 (og); 23/11/2016 GS Arsenal FC - Paris Saint-Germain 2-2 London Cavani 18, Iwobi 77 (og) Cavani 1; Alexis 13/09/2016 GS Paris Saint-Germain - Arsenal FC 1-1 Paris Sánchez 78 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 0-2 Giroud 36, Ramsey 17/03/2015 R16 AS Monaco FC - Arsenal FC Monaco agg: 3-3 ag 79 Oxlade-Chamberlain 90+1; Kondogbia 38, 25/02/2015 R16 Arsenal FC - AS Monaco FC 1-3 London Berbatov 53, Carrasco 90+4 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Arsenal FC - Olympique de 26/11/2013 GS 2-0 London Wilshere 1, 65 Marseille J. Ayew 90+3 (P); Olympique de Marseille - Arsenal 18/09/2013 GS 1-2 Marseille Walcott 65, Ramsey FC 83 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Arsenal FC - Montpellier Hérault Wilshere 49, Podolski 21/11/2012 GS 2-0 London SC 63 Belhanda 9 (P); Montpellier Hérault SC - Arsenal 18/09/2012 GS 1-2 Montpellier Podolski 16, Gervinho FC 18 2 Arsenal FC - Stade Rennais FC Thursday 14 March 2019 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Arsenal Stadium, London UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Arsenal FC - Olympique de 01/11/2011 GS 0-0 London Marseille Olympique de Marseille - Arsenal 19/10/2011 GS 0-1 Marseille Ramsey 90+2 FC UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Kanu 53; Kapo 8, 22/10/2002 GS1 Arsenal FC - AJ Auxerre 1-2 London Fadiga 27 02/10/2002 GS1 AJ Auxerre - Arsenal FC 0-1 Auxerre Gilberto Silva 48 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Bergkamp 33; 21/02/2001 GS2 Arsenal FC - Olympique Lyonnais 1-1 London Edmílson 90 13/02/2001 GS2 Olympique Lyonnais - Arsenal FC 0-1 Lyon Henry 59 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-2 Nouma 72; Henry 42, 20/04/2000 SF RC Lens - Arsenal FC Lens agg: 1-3 Kanu 86 06/04/2000 SF Arsenal FC - RC Lens 1-0 London Bergkamp 2 Sibierski 13, 58, 3-3 Vahirua 80; Grimandi 09/12/1999 R3 FC Nantes - Arsenal FC Nantes agg: 3-6 25, Henry 31, Overmars 43 Overmars 15 (P), 25/11/1999 R3 Arsenal FC - FC Nantes 3-0 London Winterburn 82, Bergkamp 90 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 25/11/1998 GS Arsenal FC - RC Lens 0-1 London Debeve 72 Vairelles 90+2; 16/09/1998 GS RC Lens - Arsenal FC 1-1 Lens Overmars 51 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 0-1 16/03/1995 QF AJ Auxerre - Arsenal FC Auxerre I. Wright 16 agg: 1-2 I. Wright 60; Verlaat 02/03/1995 QF Arsenal FC - AJ Auxerre 1-1 London 63 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-0 12/04/1994 SF Arsenal FC - Paris Saint-Germain London Campbell 7 agg: 2-1 29/03/1994 SF Paris Saint-Germain - Arsenal FC 1-1 Paris Ginola 50; I. Wright 35 3 Arsenal FC - Stade Rennais FC Thursday 14 March 2019 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Arsenal Stadium, London Stade Rennais FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Intertoto Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Aston Villa FC - Stade Rennais 1-0 01/08/2001 SF Birmingham Dublin 5 FC agg: 2-2 ag Stade Rennais FC - Aston Villa Lucas 19, Chapuis 25/07/2001 SF 2-1 Rennes FC 66; Vassell 90+2 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Arsenal FC 12 5 4 3 13 8 4 1 0 0 0 0 25 13 8 4 34 22 Stade Rennais FC 2 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 2 0 1 5 3 4 Arsenal FC - Stade Rennais FC Thursday 14 March 2019 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Arsenal Stadium, London Match background Rennes, enjoying the most successful European campaign in their history, bring a handy 3-1 lead to north London, obliging Arsenal to wipe out a first-leg deficit for the second round in succession as they chase back-to-back qualifications for the UEFA Europa League quarter-finals. • Arsenal cruised through to the knockout phase from Group E, dropping just two points as they qualified with two games to spare, but they had a scare in the round of 32, BATE Borisov defeating them 1-0 in Belarus before the Londoners turned the tie around with a 3-0 second-leg success. • Rennes recovered from three successive defeats to take Group K's runners-up spot behind Dynamo Kyiv thanks to victories at Jablonec (1-0) and – in a must-win decider – at home to Astana on matchday six (2-0). They then caused an upset by defeating Group G winners Real Betis in the round of 32, winning 3-1 in Seville after a 3-3 home draw. Previous meetings • The clubs' first meeting proved eventful as a raucous Roazhon Park crowd roared Rennes to a famous victory after they had conceded an early goal to Alex Iwobi. The turning point was Sokratis Papastathopoulos's 41st-minute red card, which was immediately punished by a sumptuous equaliser from Benjamin Bourigeaud. An own goal from Nacho Monreal and Ismaïla Sarr's diving header, both in the second half, put the Ligue 1 side in control of the tie while also inflicting on the visitors a first away defeat in France. • This is Arsenal's 26th UEFA fixture against opponents from France, and their 13th at home, where they have been victorious in only five of the previous 12, losing three. The most recent visit from a Ligue 1 club brought a 2-2 draw against Paris Saint-Germain in the 2016/17 UEFA Champions League group stage. • Arsenal have won four of their five two-legged UEFA competition ties against French opposition, including two – against Nantes and Lens – en route to the 1999/2000 UEFA Cup final, but they lost the most recent, going down on away goals to Monaco in the 2014/15 UEFA Champions League round of 16 (1-3 home, 2-0 away). • Rennes' sole previous experience of English opposition before the first leg of this tie was a 2001 UEFA Intertoto Cup semi-final against Aston Villa that they lost on away goals after winning the first leg in Brittany (2-1 home, 0-1 away). Form guide Arsenal • The Gunners finished sixth in the 2017/18 Premier League – their lowest final placing under Arsène Wenger in his swansong season as manager after 22 years. It earned them a second successive qualification for the UEFA Europa League group stage. • UEFA Champions League ever-presents for 19 successive seasons until last term, Arsenal reached the UEFA Europa League semi-finals at the first attempt, going out to eventual winners Atlético Madrid. This season they breezed through their group, an opening 4-2 win at home to Vorskla Poltava preceding four wins and a draw in which they conceded no further goals. That competition record-equalling run of five clean sheets ended at BATE, but an own goal and headers from defenders Shkodran Mustafi and Papastathopoulos secured a 3-0 home win and progress. • Arsenal's one previous UEFA Europa League round of 16 tie came last season against AC Milan, Wenger's side progressing 5-1 on aggregate after winning the away first leg 2-0. It was the first time in eight years that the Gunners had won a European tie in the round of 16 following seven successive eliminations from that stage of the UEFA Champions League, including that one by Monaco in 2014/15. • The 1999/2000 UEFA Cup runners-up picked up seven points at home in this season's group stage. The round of 32 victory over BATE finally brought to an end a six-year sequence in which Arsenal had lost their first European home fixture of the spring and means their home record in two UEFA Europa League campaigns is now W7 D3 L1, with 26 goals scored and eight conceded. • Arsenal have won only three of the 13 UEFA competition ties in which they were defeated away in the first leg, most recently overcoming BATE in this season's round of 32.