And the north London side did what they needed to do, and in emphatic fashion, as Olivier Giroud’s hat-trick ensured Arsenal finished runners-up in Group F to join Bayern Munich in going through to the knockout stages.
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Wenger hailed his team’s character and suggested that fortune could be favouring them in this season’s European campaign.
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“We had a ideal performance on the tactical and mental side”.
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Wenger also commented on the legal case involving Benzema, who has been suspended from the France national team while an investigation into a sex-tape scandal is ongoing. Competition makes players stronger and that is what happened. It was a special night for us.
“All great strikers have to respond in the big games and this was a good test for us and he responded well”, Flamini said. We needed something special and when you deliver something special it can create positive memories for the rest of the season.
Arsenal’s injury problems are well documented and they travelled to Piraeus without seven first-team squad members. When the goal comes I don’t know but if we play well we have a chance to score.
Asked if there was any team that Arsenal wanted to avoid, Walcott said: “I’m sure none of them would like to play us after that result”. We are really pleased to go through.
“He practised it in training and he was quite good, but it’s easier to score when he already had two”.
“We needed a flawless performance and tonight was one of the best we have given in Europe”. We escaped, maybe it’s a lucky tear for us in the Champions League.
Although Olivier Giroud was the star on the night with his first hat-trick for the club, Nicholas also singled out the goalkeeper for praise. “It’s nice to go through because we were not in a good position”.
Arsenal could now face Andre Villas-Boas’ Zenit St Petersburg, Manchester United’s conquerors Wolfsburg or one of the Spanish trio of Real Madrid, Barcelona or Atletico Madrid in the next round. We took our chances and Olivier [Giroud] was our man.
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Giroud was the focus for the goals he scored, but it was a brilliant confident performance from the whole team, made even more awesome by the fact that we were missing Coquelin, Cazorla and Alexis through injury.
