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       Arsenal rally for Europa League win on Luiz, Aubameyang goals
   DIR By: The Referee
       Date: October 22, 2020, 5:50 pm
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       Arsenal scored twice in four minutes to win 2-1 at Rapid Vienna
       in the Europa League on Thursday and spare goalkeeper Bernd
       Leno's blushes after his blunder handed the Austrians a shock
       lead.
       Taxiarchis Fountas capitalised on Leno's misfortune to put Rapid
       ahead in the 51st minute before David Luiz headed Arsenal level
       and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, who started on the bench, gave
       them three points in the Group B match.
       "We knew it was going to be a difficult match. We made it harder
       in the beginning with a few decisions that we made and obviously
       the goal we conceded, which if anything is obviously my fault
       because I demand we do those things," Arsenal coach Mikel Arteta
       said.
       Arsenal gave a first start to new signing Thomas Partey whose
       €50 million fee is more than the transfer market value of
       Rapid's entire squad, which according to the specialist website
       Transfermarkt is around €34m.
       "He looked really solid, really comfortable. He held midfield by
       himself in the second half when we were a little bit more open
       and starting to take more chances attacking certain places with
       some players," Arteta said of Partey's performance.
       Rapid, backed by around 3,000 fans at the Weststadion, had the
       better of the first half and deservedly went ahead six minutes
       after the restart.
       Leno received the ball from David Luiz but was dispossessed by
       Ercan Kara and Fountas turned in the loose ball.
       David Luiz levelled with a simple goal in the 70th minute,
       outjumping the Rapid defence to head in from Nicolas Pepe's
       floated free kick.
       Fountas just failed to capitalise on another Leno mistake,
       shooting wide from 30 metres after the German charged out of his
       area and fired the ball against David Luiz, before Arsenal won
       the game in the 74th minute.
       Mohamed Elneny threaded a neat pass through to Hector Bellerin
       and he rolled the ball across for Aubameyang to tap into the
       net.
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