But it was Bayern Munich’s night and Muller grabbed his second of the game in injury time to complete a 5-1 drubbing. They may be reliant on Bayern Munich beating Olympiacos at the Allianz Arena on match day five, but should that happen (and let’s be real, it will happen) Arsenal have a fighting chance. On Wednesday’s evidence, it is impossible not to see that happening. “On top of that, we made things quite easy for them with our defensive performance”, he said.
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It was a particularly torrid outing for Arsenal in wide areas as Bayern repeatedly tore at them down the flanks and Mertesacker added: “They are absolutely incredible in one-v-ones”.
“We have to win both games and get two goals on Olympiakos, but it’s not over and that’s how we have to approach it. We need to bounce back and put away negative energy”.
“We played a great first half”, said Guardiola as Bayern stand on the brink of a place in the last 16. “It is in our own hands and we will go out to win the last two group games as well”.
We still have the chance to qualify but those chances are at a minimum.
Bayern Munich avenged their loss to Arsenal in matchday 3, with an emphatic 5-1 win over the Gunners. It is still possible. Let’s hope Bayern beat Olympiakos and we win at home against Zagreb.
“We have gone through even more hard periods and it is not over”. But, like Wenger, he accepted that they could not defend as they did and expect to emerge unscathed. We were extremely poor defensively, and we are not at the races.
Speaking on the Colin Murray show, he said: “Manchester City are already through, and while Manchester United aren’t scoring a lot of goals, they’re such a hard team to beat at the moment”. They were absolutely magnificent.
Many Arsenal fans took to social media outlets on Thursday saying they would rather Arsenal finish bottom of the group and be eliminated from European competition altogether rather than finish third and qualify for the Europa League.
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Wenger also criticised his players’ mental strength after they folded against a team whom they beat at the Emirates Stadium two weeks ago. They were superior to us in every single way.
