Extremely Poor Defensively – Arsene Wenger Pulls No Punches As Arsenal Thrashed

However, despite their poor run of form in Europe, Arsenal are now level on points with Premier League leaders Manchester City after picking up five consecutive domestic wins.

“Bayern is a good team, but I am sure we have the quality to compete with them”. “We weren’t at the races”, admitted Wenger.

“We had a good first half but not as controlled in the second half because we always want to play full throttle. When we went forward we had chances but with a defensive performance like that you go nowhere”, said Wenger.

Guardiola’s assessment of how the tie would shape up was all but confirmed by Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger, who stressed the importance of a solid defensive performance during the game. This game will not remain in my memory as nothing positive happened at all. We have a chance to qualify.

Despite being unbeaten in the Bundesliga, Bayern have dropped points for the first time in their last fixture with a lacklustre 0-0 draw to Eintracht Frankfurt away from home. “We have to realise with that kind of performance that we had today that our chances are minimal”.

Arsenal, which has qualified for the knockout stage of the Champions League in each of the past 15 seasons, is now hanging on by a thread. Alaba then scored on an impressive curling shot from outside the of the box to make it 3-0 Bayern at the end of the first half. But we have to look at ourselves, which I think is particularly important after today. We got better and better thanks to the support of our fans. Arsenal had beaten Bayern Munich 2-0 at home two weeks prior, but playing in Germany would prove to be a much tougher test for the Gunners. What’s more, the Arsenal injury casualty list continues to grow with centre-back Laurent Koscielny ruled out of yesterday’s clash at the 11th hour with a hip injury. We have to take it on the chin and get ready for next two games and take six points.

“We were very focused and determined”.

Arsenal will feel hard done why they thought they had scored an equaliser just two minutes later, as Mesut Ozil bundled the ball into the net, but the referee disallowed the goal as the midfielder was deemed to have handled the ball.