It was a humiliation to equal Arsenal’s 4-0 loss at AC Milan in 2012 and gravely jeopardise their 15-year run of reaching the knockout stage.
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Not only that, but Arsenal also inflicted Bayern’s first defeat of the season two weeks ago, when they won 2-0 at the Emirates.
To worsen matters for the Gunners, Olympiacos came from behind to defeat Dinamo Belgrade 2-1 to open a six point gap over the L9ndon side.
Munich are at the top of the table in the German Bundesliga with 31 points in the 11 matches they have played, five points clear off the second placed Borussia Dortmund whereas Arsenal are second in the league with 25 points in the 11 games they have played, below Manchester City by goal difference and above Leicester City by three points. We were not at the races. Defensively we were just not present, we were not there.
Wenger was scathing of Arsenal’s defensive performance and did not attempt to use the absence of nine players through injury as an excuse.
“My memory is not good enough to tell you if in 19 years it is the worst performance, it certainly will not remain in my memory for anything positive”.
“Of course we can still qualify”, he said.
Bayern boss Pep Guardiola has insisted his side will be looking to win the game rather than play out a mutually beneficial draw and Cech is happy to let other results take care of themselves.
“We have to realise that, with that kind of performance, our chances are at a minimum, but we have a chance to qualify”. “He’s very strong in the important games”.
This is about survival in the Champions League at the moment. “We have to be stepping on the gas all the time”.
“That’s top level sport”. We lost in London but our performance was good.
Arjen Robben of Bayern Munich scores the fourth goal against Arsenal on Wednesday night in the Champions League. “It is in our own hands and we will go out to win the last two group games as well”.
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“They scored too early for us and got into their rhythm – that was too hard for us to go again”, he said. “But I spoke to the players and I want us to try to attack even when there are 10 players there defending”.
