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Arsenal v Celtic - 2-0 (Gallas, Caldwell)

Fiorentina v Sporting - 2-2(Vargas, Gilardino, Vukcevic, Veloso)

Copenhagen - Apoel Nicosia - 1-0(Pospech)

Sheriff Tiraspol - Olympiakos - 0-2(Dudu, Mitroglou)

Timisoara - Stuttgart - 0-2(Gebhart, Hleb)

The game looked to be heading to the interval still deadlocked, however minutes before the break the home side were dealt an agonising blow.

A free-kick from distance was fired goalwards by Fabregas which Boruc looked to have covered.
However, the ball took a vicious deflection off William Gallas and completely wrong-footed the stopper to hand the visitors a fortunate lead.

The home side must have felt aggrieved to be behind after a strong first half showing however they nearly lost further ground within minutes of the restart.
Some strong running by Arshavin found Van Persie but his strike across goal was off-target and Celtic survived.

Moments later, however, and Wenger’s men went even closer with Denilson having time and space to try and curl a shot on the edge of the box but, unlike at Goodison Park on Saturday, the Brazilian couldn’t find the back of the net.
With the Gunners beginning to click into gear and threatening to put the game out of reach manager Mowbray responded with a double substitution sending on Scott MacDonald and Marc-Antoine Fortune.

Yet it was to be to no avail as with 20 minutes of the game remaining, the Gunners put one foot into the next round.

Substitute Abou Diaby did superbly to beat Hinkel before feeding Clichy down the left flank.
The full back then delivered a devilish cross which Caldwell attempted to deflect wide and simply managed to put past his own goalkeeper.