‘It’s not over’, says Mertesacker as Bayern thrash Arsenal 5-1

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.

Philipp Lahm says his Bayern Munich side is “focused, not wounded” ahead of their Champions League clash at home to Arsenal on Wednesday. We witnessed similar scenes in last year’s Champions League quarterfinals.

With the first half winding down, Arsenal thought they were going to escape into the break only two goals down.

Arsenal must win both remaining group matches to stand any chance of progressing to the knockout rounds, but Wenger is not giving up hope entirely.

Mesut Ozil has scored twice versus Bayern Munich in the Champions League; the only side he has got on the scoresheet a couple of times against.

Where better to start than the current state of play in Group F?

Here, Sports Mole takes a closer look back at how the 90 minutes of action unfolded.

Bayern doubled the lead when Mueller’s shot deflected off Per Mertesacker and crept inside the post with Cech wrongfooted.

“Bayern dominated as usual but they scored an early goal and that hurt us”, Arsenal captain Per Mertesacker said.

Chelsea are third in their group, three points behind Porto and one behind opponents Dynamo, with Maccabi Tel Aviv yet to register.

Lewandowski had a tremendous scoring run of 21 goals in a span of 14 matches from August 1 through October 10 for club and country.

Tight defences are what Bayern have had to get used to in recent weeks and Guardiola said the German champions always had to change. Arsene Wenger’s side registered an impressive 2-0 win against the Bundesliga giants at Emirates Stadium last time but face an uphill battle to repeat the same feat at Allianz Arena.

Arsenal had the ball in the back of the net in response nearly immediately when Ozil met Nacho Monreal’s cross but the referee adjudged that the German of handled the ball and the goal was disallowed.

Bayern will be without Mario Gotze, but they could see the return to Medhi Benatia.

Wenger must make a crucial decision whether or not to start newly acquired Joel Campbell, after the Costa Rican found the back of the net in his first appearance against Swansea last week.

Danny Welbeck and Jack Wilshere are also expected to be missing match against Bayern.