Why can’t we win the trophy?

try to win the second leg again, but I will maybe rotate and play the players who didn’t play last night.”

Ostersunds battled bravely but were outclassed, and were even denied the consolation of getting on the scoresheet when Tom Pettersson’s last-minute penalty was saved by David Ospina.

Wenger said: “It was important not to tarnish our performance. It would have left a bitter taste.” Midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan, above, said: “Why can we not win the Europa League? We have to keep fighting and in the end see where we’re at. “We have to focus on every game regardless to ensure success. Even with the League Cup final, I think we have to play with the same team next week against Ostersunds, and win at home. “It was Ostersunds’ first game for a while. We were more practiced. They are a good team, tried to play, but we scored early on.” Danny Welbeck felt the artificial surface at the Jamtkraft Arena was a bit hard but praised the Gunners for a professional performance.

The England striker said: “There could have been a problem with the pitch but we knew that coming here. We knew it was going to be difficult. We had to keep our cool and stay patient. It was a nice, professional performance.

“You hear little stories about coming and playing on 4G pitches after a knee injury but I felt fine, the pitch just felt a bit hard. I just look forward to getting more minutes under my belt.”