Arsenal exit the Champions League at the last 16 stage yet again after they were beaten 3-1 in the Nou Camp this evening. “I can’t call the result, but we both know that Barca have a better team”.
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“I think the performance was first of all good but it was a great game between two good teams”.
But despite having chances, it was a case of missed opportunities once more for Wenger who saw Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez add goals to put the Catalan side into Friday’s draw. You must admire art. They have two or three players with the ability to transform normal life into art. Of course for me it is suffering as well but it is exceptional what Messi does.
Speaking to the media on Tuesday ahead of Arsenal’s second leg, Wenger also suggested the Barcelona clash will be treated as an all-or-nothing affair.
Arsenal midfielder Mohamed Elneny evened the score in the second half, but it didn’t take long before the home side regained their lead, this time through an exquisite volley from Suarez.
“I felt from the bench they were wobbling a bit and a bit insecure”, Wenger said. Had we scored the second goal it could have caused a sensation tonight.
Barcelona head coach Luis Enrique believes it will be “impossible” for any manager to emulate Arsene Wenger’s twenty-year stay at Arsenal with any other club, reported the Mirror.
“We will attack knowing that to counter the magicians of Barcelona we need a good defensive performance”.
“They’ve got a weak group of players who can’t seem to lift it for certain games”, Keane told ITV Sport.
“Our approach was not bad in the first leg but we lost our balance and got caught”, he said at Tueday’s pre-match news conference. If you compare the club when I arrived and how it is today, it is moved forward – and without any help from anybody.
Asked about possible last-eight opponents, Enrique simply replied: “The only team I don’t want to face is Barca, and it’s a certainty that we won’t”.
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The World Cup victor was signed by his fellow Frenchman while still a teenager at Monaco and then went on to lift the Premier League and FA Cup under his mentor in 1998.
