We finish our Europa League group-stage campaign with a match against BATE Borisov at Emirates Stadium on Thursday. Ahead of the game, tactical expert Michael Cox analyses our opponents’ strengths, dangermen and areas we can target. THE MANAGER Alyaksandr Yermakovich is a popular figure at BATE – after 10 years as a player between 1998 and 2008, he retired to become the club’s assistant before stepping up to the top job in 2013. He’s won five straight league titles, and recorded some impressive European results, like a 2-1 victory against Athletic Bilbao in 2014, and a 3-2 win over Roma the next season. FORMATION Yermakovich will deploy a standard 4-2-3-1 system, which will look...
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