Valencia vs Arsenal Predictions and Betting Tips, 09 May 2019

The Match Is Over. Score: 2-4

Valencia v Arsenal Predictions for Thursday night's second leg in the Europa League semis at the Mestalla in Valencia. Will Arsenal's terrible away performance this season be something Valencia can use to their advantage to advance? Comfortably 3-1 up in the tie, an away goal for Gunners could be sufficient to secure progress. Find out our verdict on this European game.

Match status: 2018-19 Europa League Semi-finals
Kick-off: Thursday 09 May 2019, 07:00pm GMT
Venue: Mestalla (Valencia)

Valencia v Arsenal Team News

Bats to remember their fight against Villarreal

Marcelino's side will regret conceding a late goal from Arsenal's Aubameyang, who had helped his team come from behind early in the first half assisting his strike partner Lacazette in one of his two goals after Valencia grabbed the opener through Diakhaby, that made it 3-1 and put the Gunners in control of the tie, but Valencia could take a bit of comfort in knowing Arsenal are not untouchable on the road so far.

A 6-2 away victory for Valencia at Huesca over the weekend also came as some sense of consolation and confidence-giving sort of thing. At home though, the Bats have been the team to beat all season and their home shape looks intimidating, despite losing the first match since the start of November when Eibar defeated Valencia 0-1 prior to playing Arsenal for the first time.

Bad away form and misfortunes at Mestalla might prove costly for Arsenal

While Arsenal have all chances to meet their counterparts Chelsea in the final should they go through, Unai Emery should be worried about his team performing away from home as their last two trips were terrible illustrations of what Valencia should expect from them here. While conceding exactly 3 goals in each of those travels to Wolves and Leicester, The Gunners replied with only one at Wolves, making their fans fear for them against Valencia.

Arsenal have yet to win at Mestalla, with Valencia having won their last 3 home matches against Arsenal in all competitions.

How they are likely going to start:

Valencia (4-4-2): Neto; Gaya, Paulista, Garay, Piccini; Guedes, Parejo, Coquelin, Soler; Moreno, Mina.

Arsenal (3-4-2-1): Cech; Koscielny, Sokratis, Mustafi; Kolasinac, Guendouzi, Xhaka, Maitland-Niles; Iwobi, Mkhitaryan; Lacazette.