It was the black night of Dani Ceballos who gave away one of Benfica's two goals and led to the other and that they had the Portuguese team with the pass to the knockout stages of the Europa League in their pockets. After Arteta was seated on the bench, things changed and two goals from Aubameyang and in between Kieran Tierney saved Arsenal from shipwreck. To have killed us! The Spanish midfielder must have thought.
Despite everything, Mikel Arteta, had a few words of praise for Ceballos at such a difficult time for the Sevillian, dedicating him to the second round: “I am especially happy for Dani, he leads his profession as if it were the most important thing in his life. When he made that mistake, If that had meant we were out of the competition, it would have been difficult for him. Someone like Dani deserves good things to happen to him. “
Arteta, although he focused especially on Ceballos, transferred his good words to the whole team for the feat of the comeback: “Certainly this result keeps the season alive, that's for sure. Today it would have been really hard to get eliminated after what happened in the first leg and in the second leg. So I'm very happy to pass. “