Arsene Wenger hopes to keep alive his dream of ending his Arsenal tenure with a European trophy when they travel to Atletico Madrid for the second leg of their Europa League semi-final on Thursday (kick-off 8.05pm).

The Frenchman, who will leave his role this summer, has not tasted European glory in his 22 years in charge of the club and his team are underdogs to reach the final in Lyon on May 16 after the first leg finished 1-1 last week.

Antoine Griezmann's strike eight minutes from time cancelled out Alexandre Lacazette's goal to put Atletico Madrid in pole position despite playing for 80 minutes with 10 men.

Arsenal must score at least once to go through, but even though they have lost all of their Premier League away games in 2018, their manager is not concerned.

He said: "In Europe I think we have done well away from home and we neglected a bit the Premier League away from home recently."

He added: "I would like to walk out of Arsenal and think until the last day I focused only on Arsenal. When my job at Arsenal finishes I will see where I go from there but I want to finish this love story well."

Team news

Arsenal have no fresh injury concerns ahead of the game.

Henrikh Mkhitaryan sat out the first leg with a knee injury, but returned at the weekend and scored in the 2-1 defeat at Manchester United.

Alex Iwobi has travelled despite suffering a slight hamstring injury on Sunday but Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is cup-tied and Mohamed Elneny (ankle) and Santi Cazorla (Achilles) are also out.

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Fit-again Diego Costa could start for Atletico Madrid.

The former Chelsea forward was an unused substitute in London last week as he recovered from a thigh injury but played over an hour in Sunday's La Liga win over Alaves.

Defender Filipe Luis has been included in the squad and could make his first appearance since breaking his leg in mid-March but Diego Simeone has confirmed he is not ready to play for 90 minutes.

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Opta stats

• Arsenal are winless in their last six European visits to Spain (D2 L4), last winning in February 2006, winning 1-0 against Real Madrid in the Champions League.
• On the previous two occasions Arsenal have drawn the first leg of European semi-final, they've progressed to the final (1979/80 and 1993/94 Cup Winners Cup).
• However, the last five teams to achieve a score draw away from home in the first leg of a major European semi-final have progressed to the final, including both teams in the Europa League (Dnipro in 2014-15 and Sevilla in 2015-16).
• Atletico have lost just one of their last 17 home games in European competition (W13 D3), but that was to an English side (Chelsea in the CL Group Stage this season).
• The Gunners are aiming to qualify for their sixth major European final, and third under Arsene Wenger - they reached the UEFA Cup final in 2000 and Champions League final in 2006 under the Frenchman, losing both.

Charlie's prediction

Can Arsenal do it? The answer is no for me, I'm afraid. I truly hope I'm wrong and they are in the tie still, but I fear they'll fall just short once again.

Forget that Atletico had 10 men in the first leg, that didn't change the way they played, and it will be interesting to see how they approach the second leg.

Diego Costa is back and he could join Kevin Gamiero in attack if they really want to force the issue, while Aaron Ramsey is key to getting on the ball in dangerous areas and creating chances for Alexandre Lacazette.

Will Shkodran Mustafi and Laurent Koscielny turn up? I just can't trust them. All they had to do was sit in and protect that 1-0 lead and organise those around them, but they failed to do it.

I was encouraged by Arsenal's attacking display against United and I could actually see them scoring twice, but the difference is the defence and if they open up Atletico will outscore them.

Charlie predicts: 2-1 and Costa to score first (18/1 with Sky Bet)

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