However, domestically the Gunners continue to impress, following up the demolition of Manchester United, when they netted three times in the opening 20 minutes, with a hard-earned 3-0 win at Watford to sit second in the Barclays Premier League table, just two points behind Manchester City. The manager’s carefully calculated gamble in picking just about his strongest team paid off as they resisted the home side’s pressure on either side of half-time to break out and score three typically well worked goals in 12 minutes.
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Sanchez turns 27 in December, is in the very peak of his career and has class that has been proven in the Premier League, the Spanish Primera, the Champions League and for Chile at the World Cup and Copa America.
Next up for Arsenal are Bayern in the Champions League group stage – with Arsene Wenger’s men in desperate need of points after picking up none from their first two games.
“I like that we continued to attack relentlessly until the end and to finish with it was a convincing win”, he told Arsenal Player.
The former Champions League victor has yet to feature in Europe for Arsenal since moving from Chelsea in the summer, and given the attacking threat Munich offer, the Gunners defence will be happy to have him calling the shots behind them again.
But the Gunners will need a “performance and result of epic proportions”, warns The Times, which notes that Arsenal’s predicament is “entirely self-inflicted”.
“What we want to do tomorrow is win the game”. We know exactly what is needed: a 0-0 is not even a good result.
Here, we take a look back at a few of the previous meetings between the sides.
“Due to the two defeats, we are facing one of the biggest challenges that a club can face”, Mertesacker said in an interview with Kicker. “It won’t be an easy task there but we are well prepared”, captain Philipp Lahm said of the match.
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Poland forward Lewandowski is enjoying a sensational spell of form, having registered 15 goals in his last seven appearances for club and country. Guardiola’s side has scored five goals on four occasions during that streak across all competitions, and it also won its last two visits to Arsenal in the 2013-14 and 2012-13 seasons. “There might be a few, I don’t know yet, I will have to see how completely everyone recovers”.
