Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has said he would like Olympiakos, rather than Arsenal, to progress from their Champions League group because he is friends with their coach Marco Silva.
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“We needed to do the job and Bayern Munich needed to do the job and they did that well”. You gain in confidence and you become better physically, so the possibility to play game after game is going to be good for me’.
“For us, it was a bad result”, Wenger admitted at his pre-match press conference on Thursday morning.
“How big the chance to qualify is I don’t know, but I believe we can do it”.
In other matches on Tuesday, Barcelona thrashed Roma 6-1 to qualify for the last 16 as well, with Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez both scoring twice, while Zenit St Petersburg were the other team to make it through to the next round as group winners after dispatching Valencia 2-0 in Russian Federation. It is a must-win for us and the task is very clear. “Of course it is vital to score the first goal”.
Arsenal keeper Petr Cech said Wednesday he expected a “play-off” Champions League game against Olympiacos on December 9 as the two teams vie for a spot in the knock-out phase. This time we need to qualify. I believe the speed of our movement and passing gave Zagreb a problem.
You have to trust Uefa and organisations to do that well.
Sanchez has been directly involved in seven of Arsenal’s nine Champions League goals this season.
The elegant Germany global has become the goal-maker supreme, setting a Premier League record with an assist in his seventh successive game when Olivier Giroud put Arsenal ahead at West Bromwich Albion on Saturday.
“But I would have loved to have taken him off really, but the compromise was to leave him in the centre where he can save a little energy, I tried to compromise a little bit”.
The Chilean striker lost possession of the ball by the left touchline with the game still goalless, allowing Dinamo to start a long break towards the Arsenal goal.
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“For us a bargain is to buy players of top quality, only top quality strengthens our squad. We had a game of quality and control”.
