🏆 Four players who could decide the Europa League final | OneFootball

After weeks of waiting, Europa League final day is officially here.

Arsenal face Chelsea in Baku and both sides will be quietly optimistic.

Here are four players that could decide which corner of London the trophy travels home to.

Eden Hazard

Playing in what is undoubtedly his final game for Chelsea, Europa League glory would present the perfect goodbye.

Hazard has been a cut above his team-mates this season and they look a completely different side playing with him, than without.

Maurizio Sarri has afforded the Belgian freedom and it’s paid off. The script has been written.

Pierre Emerick-Aubameyang

Arsenal have finally found the 30-goal a season striker they were desperate for – and that’s not to discredit Alexandre Lacazette.

The Frenchman has been brilliant this season but in terms of pure, predatory goalscoring, Aubameyang is on another level.

His hat-trick against Valencia highlighted those instincts and Unai Emery will be banking on him to prove decisive again.

N’Golo Kanté

Kanté will have a huge impact on this game. It’s just a matter of whether he does it from the sidelines or on the pitch.

Playing in a slightly unfamiliar role, the midfielder has adapted well and could be crucial to winning the midfield battle.

Chelsea lose energy and physicality in his absence which could be costly against Emery’s Arsenal.

Laurent Koscielny

What more can you say about this man?

Suffered a potential career-ending injury at 33, spent seven months out and returned to first-team action like it was nothing.

With Shkodran Mustafi out of favour and Sokratis just as unpredictable, he’ll need to be on top form in Baku.