Rorschach
Ricky Villa
Arsenal were lucky. They got the early goal that they desperately need because Alba slipped. Then they were played off the park for over an hour, hardly had a shot while Bayern had plenty of shots and chances. Yes they restricted Bayern to mainly efforts outside the box, but most days you'd see either Robben or Kroos take one of those outside the box chances that they got. And of course it's always very marginal when you're defending like that.
Of course as the game wears on and Arsenal had no choice, but to pour men forward Bayern would get a bit nervous. But that only happened after Arsenal had been really lucky, and even when they got another goal, this time somewhat flukey from a set piece they weren't able to build on that and put pressure on Bayern.
Very average looking Arsenal side I thought. Gave the ball away incredibly easy most of the game and created fairly little. They defended reasonably well, but they had nothing else for most of the game.
Would have been lucky on par with some of the Chelsea ties last season if Arsenal had gone though after those two games.
I have to agree with all of that. I thought Arsenal were crap but managed to score twice whereas Bayern were profligate with their chances to say the least. The media spin that plucky Arsenal were so close to defeating the nasty German team really was stretching the truth. I thought body language of the Arsenal players at the end of the game they showed they were rather deflated. I don't think this will be the confidence boost to Arsenal some are predicting.
One player who I thought was excellent was Jenkinson.