Good Performance

Perhaps there was a different approach in training? I would love that to be the case.
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I hope to God, yes. HAS to be. Wenger thinks his players are so intelligent they don't need to be told things, but it's a must. Repetition, and drilling of tactics is the only way to be consistent.

Good article. I do think silk sums up quite well how the game panned out.

As a neutral is was a boring game with neither team playing that well, but you did look pretty solid at the back.

I think fear might have been in Wenger's mind, hence your approach to the game.

He must have known that were you to go too gung ho you'd get picked off and lose easily.

Fear can be a good thing in these sort of games. The best CL teams are usually the ones that play with caution for fear of losing - bar Barca.

Gibbs also needs to stay fit. Has good competition with Monreal now, I think our full-back situation is fairly healthy tbh. I'm starting to love CJ.

But again I doubt he was the reason, he has not been pulling up any trees for the reserves so I don't see how exactly he becomes a calming influence at the back.
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batmanu, what i meant was this - szczesny's performances have been erratic all season. and i think, slowly, that his defenders have stopped trusting him. and this has increased the pressure on the defence, because they have it in their heads that they are the last REAL line of defence - since there's no telling how szczesny will handle the situation.

whereas they didn't need to worry about that with fabianski in goal tonight - so i think that just freed up their minds and let them get on with their own jobs.

KPPR, perhaps that is the case. I hope it isn't. I would like to think the issues with our defence are tactical and not mental.

If you allowed me to have a say on the matter in question, i would say tonights game was extremely weired and strange, except the two arsenal goals, there was nothing to show for your team. no creativity, no flair, no midfield dominance and nothing going forward on the contrary Bayern dominated all areas of the game other than finishing and some of thier crossing was disappointing too but they created far more chances, they were more exiting to watch and they had more than 20 shots on goal. you take those two goals out and there was absolutely nothing going for Arsenal. i know Bayren were well below par yet they had much more chances and territorial advantage than arsenal.

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A decent summary.

There are some things I'd like to amend though.

In the first half, Bayern were largely restricted to shots from range. I believe we did catch them off guard for our first goal though, and I also agree they weren't at their best at all. Second half they got into the game a lot more and started to stretch us dangerously. Muller played a fantastic back heel which set Robben through, and he (expectedly, for me) missed. I feel that was the only time we were undone by Bayern tonight. The other chances they had were to be expected, we were taking more risks.

Goalkeepers get confidence if they feel they have a solid back 4 in front of them, and vice-versa. If you don't know what the defence is going to do one minute to the next, it's hard to assess what is needed.

Nearly 2 years, still same old shít

Still relevant

Groundhog Day