“You have to give credit to Bayern for their quality, but we made things easy for them”, said the Frenchman.
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“It is in our own hands and we will go out to win the last two group games as well”.
“No matter what percentage we have, we have to dig in for the chance to qualify”.
It should be pointed out that Arsenal entered this contest decimated by injuries – Aaron Ramsey, Jack Wilshere, Laurent Koscielny, Theo Walcott, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Danny Welbeck were all unavailable as were a few others.
Arsenal are top of the Premier League table after a run of five consecutive victories, including wins against Manchester United, Everton and Swansea City.
Arsenal will feel hard done why they thought they had scored an equaliser just two minutes later, as Mesut Ozil bundled the ball into the net, but the referee disallowed the goal as the midfielder was deemed to have handled the ball.
A chastening evening for the Londoners was made all the more damaging as Olympiakos recovered from a goal down to beat Dinamo Zagreb 2-1, leaving Arsenal six points behind the Greeks, and Bayern, with two games to play. We had a chance to score early but with a defensive performance like that, you go nowhere.
This was more like the Bayern team we expected to all but mathematically knock Arsenal out of the Champions League the round before. “The competition for places at that club is fierce – so even if they field a “weakened” team, it will be stuffed with high-quality players trying to prove themselves”.
Real Madrid edged past French champions PSG at the Bernabeu, with a first half goal from Nacho sending the La Liga side through to the knockout phase.
“It is clear we miss Messi, but I am in the form of my life and I hope to continue like this”, said Neymar. “We have to give it our all to have a chance to qualify”, Wenger was quoted as saying by the Guardian.
“We have to realise with the kind of performance we have today that our chance is at a minimum”. At this moment they do it well because every player knows they have to play well because there is someone else waiting to play.
However, speaking at a news conference prior to Bayern’s Bundesliga clash against Stuttgart on Saturday, Guardiola said the display against Arsenal was not quite a Champions League-winning performance.
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Then Muller grabbed his second and Bayern’s fifth by squeezing home from 15 yards into the bottom right corner after superb work by Costa.
