Good first half but I am concerned with the referee. He appears to be buying into the Rennes players acting. I am concerned that we could up with a red & then we know what happens when we play with 10. Seems as if any touch on them is a foul & he has failed to punish a number of fouls on our players.

Some great performances so far & must make a special mention of M-N.

Agree Gaz he's a bit of a worry. Think there's some drama to come.

Yep Aubameyang is offside. I think the lino got fooled because the arsenal player who was miles offside didn’t go for the ball, everyone stopped and Aubameyang ran on and got it. Lino was probably distracted by whoever it was who was miles off. Lucky break that we needed

My comms mentioned he’s from Latvia and we’re concerned how much big game experience he had. Players are manipulating him.

I always get worried when I see a ref sprint over to a player to issue him with a yellow like he did to Lacazette. Why sprint, just be calm give the free kick and the yellow, sprinting over just pours petrol on the small cinders of a fire

Phew, post to the rescue.

The game has descended into a foul fest. We need to get a grip on midfield again. It's very precarious at the moment.

Game has become so stop start. Rennes overplaying any touch or foul, desperate for a red card

Not pleasant watching is it?

Horrible feeling that there will be an incendiary incident.

This is getting very hairy. Under far too much pressure at the moment. Would like to see Emery change something - Mkhitaryan and Iwobi getting ready by the look of things.

Rennes knocking on the door. Özil and Lacazette hooked. Both had a poor game.

Phew. Nice one. Super move.

I agree we need some changes but would have been both Ramsey & Özil for me to come off. Ramsay is misplacing passes all over the place. Need that 3rd and 4th goal. And then we get number 3

Great substitutions.

Super assist from Kola

Perfect LTG, perfect.

Well played Mkhitaryan, Kolasinac - Aubameyang a big goal.

While Mustafi remains on the pitch Rennes are in with a chance.

What was the goal celebration all about. Given he earned a totally unnecessary booking I have no idea why he wanted to look like an armed robber. Maybe it was a deep message like the ref is robbing us and I want people to know

*%^@ that was a big miss. They get a goal from here and I will be spewing. 200k and plays like me

Lovely play by Ramsey though, eh Gaz? :)

Your right he has come back into the game. Mkt has been immense

That linesman deserves a statue on the cncourse

Great move that, very unlucky.

Well done AFC. A job well done.

never in doubt once we were able to keep all the players on the park

Great result, got the early goals and kept it tight at the back.

Made heavy weather of the tie but we're there.

Well done boys. Several good performances, I thought the 3 centre backs were really resolute.

Frankfurt have knocked out Inter. Benfica and Sevilla playing extra time.

AMN is built like a brick s*&thouse.

Excellent!

Is there a rule that you get booked for wearing a mask in celebration? If there is then can you get booked for those over eleborate handshake routines some players do?

Also if this is a rule, why is it a rule? Why is the taking your shirt off = yellow still a rule.

Utter nonsense and sucking the joy out of football

If the goal difference and points were the same, they would be joint top. But the goal difference is not the same, which makes Bayern top at this point in time.

Glad we beat those cheating *&!?, they spent half the game rolling around on the floor hoping we'd go down to 10 like in the first game.

So you think "the weekly results are irrelevant" until the season is over. That's possibly one of the most idiotic things I've read here. Every point won or dropped, and every goal scored and conceded in every single match over the entire season, will contribute to a team's final position.

I agree bromley, they were. AMN had a superb first half today.

Phew! Got there in the end but a nervy last few minutes and I thought we made hard work of it second half.

AMN was terrific. So too Kola.

Aubameyang's mask celebebration annoyed me a little because there was still work to be done and he seemed to lose focus after that.

Still cant see us winning it to be honest. We blow hot and cold too much and are capable of conceding at any moment. All depends on who we draw.

And Sevilla gone. Knocked out by Slavia Prague.

Job done. After we hit them like an express train in the opening 15 mins I don’t think I ever felt like the result was in doubt.
Rennes probably didn’t do themselves any favours by concentrating on trying to get one of our players sent off rather than actually playing and attacking because they were not half bad at times but lacked any final shot that would trouble Čech.

Arsenal, Chelsea, Napoli, Frankfurt, Slavic Prague, Valencia, Villarreal, benfica left in for the QF draw.

Frankfurt or Prague would probably be the easiest. Hope Napoli and Chelsea draw each other

Very happy and relieved and despite getting those 2 early goals(we have scored a lot of early goals recently) it was still very tense and nervy.
Was gutted after the first leg so this feels sweet.
Cheating unlikeable team that Rennes team are.
As for Ben Arfa the little c***. Maybe take the piss after you have gone through and not before.
Whoever we draw we must do better in the away leg.
Might be a step too far next time.
Another impressive display by AMN.
Defence were solid too..
Great news Inter and Seville are out.