Hector Bellerin Speaks Out on Arsene Wenger’s Future

What needs to change? Wenger has been under a lot of scrutiny, and a group of fans were marching before the game, chanting that they want the Frenchman to be relieved of his duty as manager.

For a long time, Wenger showed the Premiership how to build a squad, how to work on the players’ fitness.

A gut-punch loss to Liverpool in between the two legs of the tie didn’t help the mood around Arsenal any – more on that later – and things looked grim for them heading into the second leg with such a huge deficit.

Wenger spent big on defensive reinforcements last summer, bringing in centre-back Shkodran Mustafi and midfielder Granit Xhaka for a combined £70 million or so. Former German worldwide and Premier League player Thomas Hitzlsperger feels Bayern conceives far too many away-goals: “They will have to change that in the future”, the 34-year old said. But they were easily picked off by Bayern on the counterattack and the closing stages turned into a humiliation.

“Things have happened. They need to stay in the dressing room and the players and staff need to sort it out”.

The likes of Olivier Giroud, Theo Walcott and Danny Welbeck are all decent players, but not world class. Brilliant wingers like Franck Ribery and Arjen Robben can’t be replaced and Bayern has to hope the fast duo can finish the season without another injury.

Even reduced to 10 men and without their best defender, Arsenal should have had the pride to not get run off the pitch in their own home. One minute into the second half and Arsenal had all of their outfield players in Bayern’s half, pressing hard to win the ball back. Mustafi and Xhaka were both supposed to have leadership qualities, but have displayed very little of it during the recent slump.

Mascherano was a second-half substitute too after recovering from a hamstring problem, but coach Luis Enrique could yet stick with Samuel Umtiti who scored in Saturday’s win.

With the result mostly in hand after the 5-1 first leg in Germany, many Arsenal fans began their night with a pregame march to the Emirates calling for Arsene Wenger to step down.

With Wenger’s future still up in the air, this might very well have been his last match as Arsenal manager in the Champions League. Does anyone think Arsenal would have won this tie at full strength?

Arsenal needed that second goal, and they did have one last chance after the break just before the game got away from them.

Arsene Wenger saw his side plunge to a 5-1 defeat yet again against Bayern Munich at the Emirates stadium.

With 84 minutes on the clock, everyone connected with Arsenal was praying that Bayern had finished scoring, but the ever-involved Vidal had other ideas. Referee Tasos Sidiropoulos gave a penalty and booked Koscielny, before discussing with an assistant and sending him off instead.