All indications are that this season comes to an end a special Champions League series. After four games in Group F, Arsenal seems namely doomed to elimination.
Arsenal went 5-1 on Wednesday at slicing leader Bayern Munich and is thereby bar bad for in Group F. The Gunners have as Dinamo Zagreb only three points. Bayern (nine) on the basis of mutual results already out of reach, while a small miracle must take place to find out Olympiakos Piraeus (nine). The Greeks won 2-3 in London with Arsenal already and therefore have their remaining two games (Bayern and Arsenal at home) to a point enough. The 2-3 victory in London may even lose twice as long as the defeat against Arsenal a narrow and does not involve more than two away goals.
That Arsène Wenger, the club seems for the first time since the 1999/2000 season not to survive the group stage of the tournament. Since that year, Arsenal reached seven times until the sixteenth finals four times until the quarterfinals, once the semi-final and was also once losing finalist. Twice stranded Arsenal in the second group stage, stage a tournament which has now been abolished for years.
small chance
That series of Arsenal is special, but no record. Real Madrid has since the 1997/98 season always survived the group stage of the miljoenenbal. “We still have a chance. A chance, “Wenger said after the defeat in Munich. “Let’s hope that Bayern is doing his duty and that we win ourselves Dinamo.”
Then Arsenal have a very different tune than tapping has done so far in Group F. Not only was the 5-1 loss against Bayern the equaling of Europe’s biggest ever defeat, Arsenal also has one of the weakest defenses in the miljoenenbal. The North London club conceded ten goals in four games. Only two members of the group stage received more goals against: BATE Borisov and Maccabi Tel Aviv (both eleven).
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