Chelsea’s Jose Mourinho stokes rivalry with Arsenal boss Wenger again

“I need to have a scan – I just hope it is nothing serious”, said Arteta.

“We put him central up front where he could spare some energy”.

“It was our chance to [remain in with a chance of] qualifying for the next round, so we needed to play well and to score goals”. It might not be enough but what I mean is that, if we lead 1-0, they will be in the situation where they can lose it and we will be in the situation where we can win it.

The Frenchman has seen his chances limited this season but now has the opportunity for an extended period in Arsene Wenger’s starting line-up.

Arsene Wenger has played down burnout fears over Arsenal star Alexis Sanchez, insisting a “break makes him tired”.

“We needed to do the job and Bayern Munich needed to do the job and they did that well”.

The news comes as a major blow as the 24-year-old has made the defensive midfield role his own this year and we have very few viable options to fill the void over the coming months.

“It was important we did not concede the first goal because they (Dinamo) were quite unsafe going forward”.

Chelsea are a 1/6 shot to qualify from Group G, but Arsenal are odds-on at 1/3 to finish third and miss out in Group F (9/4 they progress).

If Arsenal are to silence the Olympiakos crowd, they will need another influential performance from Sanchez, who set up Mesut Ozil’s opener against Dinamo and then scored twice himself.

The crunch game came on the back of a run of one win in five for Arsenal in all competitions but they never looked liked slipping up.

“I think there is a huge potential, now we have to demonstrate it on the pitch”. They were good on the counter-attack.

Sometimes when we played at Olympiacos we had already qualified, this time we go to Olympiacos heading to qualify.

There was nervous apprehension from the home fans on a chilly night but, after Arsenal weathered early pressure when the visitors forced three corners in the first seven minutes, they took control with excellent quick-passing football.