It wasn't the best night for Arsenal's players in Germany on Thursday night - and things got off to an especially poor start for Francis Coquelin.

Arsene Wenger's men lost the Europa League clash 1-0 after Sehrou Guirassy converted a controversially given penalty in the second half.

Statistically, Arsenal dominated the clash with six goals on target to Cologne's one, but the writing seemed to be on the wall as early as the second minute.

After chesting the ball down, Coquelin found himself closed down by two opposition players and could only dribble the ball out of play.

Francis Coquelin collects the ball in his own half only to dribble it out of play (
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Arsenal fans were not happy after Francis Coquelin did it twice (
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A night to forget for the Frenchman (
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An honest mistake, and one that could surely be forgiven. But what was deemed unacceptable by Arsenal fans was when the Frenchman made exactly the same mistake only six minutes later.

Sure enough, after collecting the ball in the same area of the pitch, the 26-year-old yet again dribbled the ball out for a throw-in.

Needless to say, after just eight minutes of action, Arsenal fans had seen enough...

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