Iwobi, Musa To Get Police Protection In Europa League Clashes

Security is set to be beefed up at Arsenal's Emirates Stadium as well as CSKA Moscow's VEB Arena when Super Eagles duo of Alex Iwobi and Ahmed Musa's clubs, Arsenal and CSKA Moscow respectively, face off in the quarterfinals of the Europa League this month.

Arsenal will host the first leg of the fixtures on Thursday, 5 April before making the journey to Moscow a week later on 12 April albeit Arsenal fans know about the dangers of traveling to Russia.

The Daily Express informs that extra police and stewards will be on duty a tthe Emirates to stall any potential clashes between notorious Russian fans and Arsenal supporters on Thursday.

The fans will also be marshaled for the trip to the host country of this year's World Cup.

"We will give guidelines to our fans, and we are confident things will go all right. But we won't accept any abuse of either fans or players, a club's security official revealed according to the Daily Express."

UEFA and the Russian FA took far reaching decisions with the incident regarding Manchester City’s Yaya Toure who was targeted with racist monkey chants in 2013.

Izuchukwu  Okosi