Official: Arsenal star missing in Europa Leuge final for security reasons

Arsenal has made it known that Henrik Mkhitaryan will be missing on coach-elect Unai Emery's team for confronting the Chelsea in the finals of Europe League, to be held in Baku, Azerbaijan on 29 May.

Recently, it was reported on the dangers Armenian Henrik Mkhitaryan could pose if he traveled to Baku, due to political tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

Club leaders have now indicated that they will not endanger the footballer and he will not be part of the team that will travel to Azerbaijan 29 May.

“We are very disappointed to let it be known that Henrik Mkhitaryan will not travel with our team to the final of the League of Europe against Chelsea”, it is written in the statement issued by Arsenal.

We've considered all options for Mick to be part of the team, but after talking to Mick and his family, we've jointly decided that he would not travel with Group”.

“We wrote UEFA's about our major concerns about this situation. Mick has been a very important player in our journey to the finals, so this is a huge loss to us”.

“We are also upset that a player will be missing in the big European final because of such circumstances, as this is something in which a rarity football player rarely in career”.

“Micki will be trained along with the rest of the team until we leave for Baku at the weekend”.

Mkhitaryan has made a total of 11 presentations in this season of the League of Europe. At these matches, he contributed three assistants.