Wenger, however, insisted that failure to make it out of Group F is not being considered. Arsenal want to attack, but it’s hard against us with our good pressing game. “Especially because we want to send a message to the other teams that we are ready”.
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Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger observes his team during their training session on Tuesday ahead of Wednesday’s contest in the Champions League.
“In good periods of the game we want to attack, and that is why we will play to win”. The Gunners have beaten Bayern 2-0 at the Emirates, but a series of injuries to first team players will take a valiant effort to replicate the result from the home game. “Yes, but it’s a good challenge for us to show that we have the quality to compete with them”. We want to press them high so they can’t play out of defence.
Marco Silva’s side is also impressing domestically, where its nine-game winning start to the Greek Super League is the club’s best since 1979.
“A defeat would put us in a very bad position. It would be a disaster if we didn’t qualify for the next phase of this important championship and hopefully we can again make a great impression (against Bayern) and creep up on the leaders”, Gabriel Paulista said.
Since then his two likely replacements, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Theo Walcott, have picked up muscular problems that will keep them out until after the worldwide break. For me he’s a super player, a big player and he has positively developed. He’s very intelligent and has worked really hard.
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Speaking after the match, Guardiola said he looks forward to facing Arsenal at home in Munich during the return fixture of their Champions League match. Did the Arsenal loss affect Bayern’s approach to the Champions League at all, or was it just “one of those days”?
Arsenal boss Wenger criticised Wales for playing Ramsey in last month’s Euro 2016 game against Andorra after they had already qualified for next summer’s finals in France. “They play long balls to Giroud”.
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Tonight could prove to be an entertaining evening as Guardiola, too, will not be looking to simply settle for a share of the spoils. I hope everything will be fine. “With this victory, we managed to get up and running and realize that anything is possible in football, thanks to the confidence and ability of all the players”.
