Arsenal are still in with a chance in the Champions League after claiming a comfortable 3-0 victory over Dinamo Zagreb at the Emirates Stadium.
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Chilean winger Alexis Sanchez bagged himself a brace during the win, but Wenger has since admitted that he would have liked to have rested him.
And it was Sanchez who rubber-stamped the Gunners’ win midway through the second half when Joel Campbell played him in to round Zagreb goalkeeper Eduardo and find the net again. “It was a good night and Bayern did a good job too”, said Wenger.
Roy Keane believes Arsenal will fail to beat Olympiakos.
We need to attack and the Greeks will surely try to hold what they have.
However, concerning Coquelin, Wenger said: “It is what we feared, basically”. Can they be the first team to win back-to-back Champions League titles since 1990? Its quality is very impressive and also we have a big squad which is giving us the possibility to play every single competition.
“Sometimes we went to Olympiacos already qualified, this time we go to Olympiacos having to qualify”.
Arsene Wenger says Arsenal will travel to Athens full of belief knowing a two-goal victory against Olympiacos on Matchday Six will secure safe passage to the knockout stages.
“They can even lose under some circumstances while we have to win by two goals”.
A 3-2 win for Arsenal would level the head-to-head between the two teams, so the Gunners would go through on superior goal differences, which now stands at -1 compared to Olympiacos -4.
There have been major problems concerning crowd trouble in Greece of late, with last Saturday’s derby between Panathinaikos and Olympiakos abandoned after home fans clashed with police beforehand and threw flares at the visiting Olympiakos players as they walked out onto the pitch. I believe the speed of our movement and passing gave Zagreb a problem.
“We wanted to get an early goal and not have to reach the 70th minute with the game tight”, scorer Thomas Mueller said.
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Ozil’s languid style sees him painted as something of an enigma, but when he moves so silkily, dictating the tempo in this fashion, he looks a player of the highest quality. “Then when put they increased the pace it was hard for us”.
