Deep into injury time, his scuffle with Marco Verratti earned both of them a second yellow card and a sending-off.
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The Chilean begun the match as a striker and, once again, proved that he isn’t one.
The 20-year-old was, however, impressive in the game as he had a hand in Arsenal’s vital goal that gave them a point against Paris Saint-Germain.
Here we round up the talking points from the match…
The Gunners have crashed out of the last-16 round in the previous six campaigns and haven’t come anywhere near winning it since reaching the final back in 2006. If they do not play, you can’t keep two world-class goalkeepers.
“As I said before, I think we played a great game but we have to be better in front of goal”.
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“There are many positive things [to take from the game]. Afterwards we are going to play Paris at home”.
Alex Iwobi might have had a late Arsenal victor before Olivier Giroud and PSG’s Marco Verratti were sent off.
In typical Wenger-style, when asked if that made Ospina the No 1 for European nights, the Frenchman said: “I would not like to answer that question because we can always change our mind”. The ref didn’t even see what’s happened. Marquinhos pushed me from behind and I don’t know how Verratti falls a second time.
The star duo have less than two years remaining on their current contracts and Gunners boss Arsene Wenger is determined to tie them down to new deals before the end of the season.
“The ball was on the other side”.
“But even in the first half when we put together a few passes we felt we could be unsafe”.
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Arsenal fell behind after 42 seconds but rescued a point through an Alexis Sanchez goal after a frustrating night in France. Arsenal supporters couldn’t quite believe that Wenger fielding him for their toughest fixture in the group. “Verratti was also on a yellow, so I was surprised by his behaviour”, Giroud added.
