These ties often come down to tight margins. Arsenal made maybe three mistakes over the tie and Bayern scored from those three big mistakes, Bayern didn’t really make any, they sat in a mid block and made Arsenal play very well for the goals or chances we did get. They are a very experienced side, their front six average 28 or so years old and ours is averaging 23.
Three seasons ago Arsenal finished 8th, then 5th, then 2nd and have consolidated that title challenge this year. It’s inevitable that some players in the squad are players who were good enough for 5th but not quite there if we are to win the big prizes. If you live a more balanced and considered life then you can still take opposing views on Arsenal; one side is a team still growing, still very young and improving year on year. The other is that it is really time to win something now. Both are acceptable views. The inevitable views calling Arsenal and Arteta extremely poor and overhyped because he lost his 2nd CL knock out tie to six-time winners Bayern and might lose a Prem title to Pep or Klopp is not.
* We weren’t terrible at the Allianz and for the first half I felt like we were where we belonged. I can’t tell you how long it’s been since we felt like an elite European club. I love it. * I wonder if the fatigue and slowness also comes from our pressing style and niggles/injuries. Arteta doesn’t use his squad well enough and players have to play game after game. I think previously our April shutdowns were mental but I think this team suffers less from that but something is going on again.
What I’m saying is that we have a young manager, a young squad, a thin squad, and in our first season back we did BLOODY well. Arteta has taught me patience, something as a football fan, I never had.…There is some amount of wailing and moaning in this morning’s mailbox, apart from Simon. I don’t even bother with Stewie Griffin’s nonsense anymore, was funny at the start, but he’s trying too hard now and it is painfully obvious.
This topic really struck me this week. I’ll say as a disclaimer I’m not from North London so perhaps I don’t have the intense “hatred”, but I do find Spurs fans truly baffling. I suppose, at least they’ll have a nice stadium and cool go-kart track to revel in Arsenal’s future failures!The amount of messages I got from Arsenal mates after Newcastle is right – of course it is because it’s football and it’s about taking the piss.
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