No fan wants to see a Liverpool - type Europa League failure in a cup final that would result in
the Gunners out of Champions League play next year.
Arsenal 1 - 3 AS Monaco: Has Yannick Ferreira Carrasco Put
The Gunners Out Of The Champions League?
The five - time European champions knocked
the Gunners out of the Champions League in 2005, 2013 and 2014 — two of those defeats coming at this same stage of the tournament.
Not exact matches
Let's just hope that the injury problems ease up and the
Gunners do not get knocked
out of the FA cup and
Champions League at the next stage.
Metro have reported that Roberto Fernandez who is the sporting director
of La Liga
champions FC Barcelona has suggested that the
Gunners may have paid way over the odds for the German defender and if that is true, in these days
of crazy money being spent on players by Premier
League clubs, perhaps he will not turn
out to be the player we needed after all.
The Arsenal legend Robert Pires has already accepted that that is now
out of our reach and that it is time for the
Gunners to just go all
out to take the Europa
League trophy as the only way we can save our season and get to next years
Champions League.
Knocked
out again by Barcelona in the
Champions League but the
Gunners beat them at the Emirates and were in a great position at the Nou Camp until the sending off
of Robin van Persie.
This kept him
out of the
Champions League final although he would probably not have played anyway but he would almost certainly have been in the France starting XI at Euro 2016 where he would have played alongside Laurent Koscielny and it is this French connection that I think could be key to the
Gunners beating the likes
of Man United to his signature this summer.
A lot
of people are suggesting that the
Gunners need to finish next season as
champions to save Wenger but as he pointed
out in his interview yesterday, reported on the Arsenal website, winning the Premier
League is not that easy.
Alex Iwobi won't play
Champions League football with Arsenal this season after the
Gunners fell
out of Europe's elite group.
The
Gunners are in real danger
of missing
out on the
Champions League for the first time under Wenger and it could be one
of his final courses
of action for the club.
Now, after last night's display by N'Zonzi as Sevilla knocked Man United
out of the
Champions League, Arsenal fans are once again calling for the
Gunners to renew their interest this summer and pay whatever it takes to bring the French international to the Emirates.
But do you really think that the prof could have achieved the success he has and continued to steer the
Gunners into and then
out of the
Champions League group stages every year if he did not do any tactical planning before facing each team?
I know that Arsene Wenger has a well deserved reputation for backing his players and that certainly goes down well in the Arsenal dressing room, but with the
Gunners all but mathematically
out of the race for the Premier
League title, our
Champions League exploits are more important than ever and with Mesut Ozil in poor form and suffering a crisis
of confidence, an away match against Bayern Munich is not the right time for the manager to stick with him.
Although almost every Arsenal fans has already accepted that the
Gunners will not be going through to the next stage
of the
Champions League after losing 5 - 1 in the first leg away to Bayern Munich, it would be nice for Arsenal to get something
out of the return leg at the Emirates tomorrow, if only to build up a bit
of the confidence that the hammering in Germany took away.
Although it is pretty hard to take the fact that along with Arsenal being knocked
out of the
Champions League at the first knockout stage yet again, making it seven years in a row, we did so with a record breaking aggregate scoreline
of 10 - 2, it has not been all doom and gloom for the
Gunners this week.
Arsenal fans are already well aware
of how important the Chilean international star is to Arsenal and any chance we have
of winning a trophy and more importantly the title
of Premier
League champions, as we have seen how much the
Gunners suffer when the fantastic forward is
out of action or struggling for form.
The
Gunners acquired the services
of Alexandre Lacazette and Sead Kolašinac in the summer but fans are expecting the club to dip into the January transfer market in order to avoid missing
out on
Champions League football again.
In his press conference before Arsenal host Man City at the Emirates tomorrow, Arsene Wenger declared that he would be sending the
Gunners out with every intention
of claiming a morale boosting victory over the reigning Premier
League champions.
The
Gunners endured their worst
league campaign of Arsene Wenger's reign, and will now be forced to miss out on Champions League football for next season, but did manage to finish the season with an FA Cup t
league campaign
of Arsene Wenger's reign, and will now be forced to miss
out on
Champions League football for next season, but did manage to finish the season with an FA Cup t
League football for next season, but did manage to finish the season with an FA Cup trophy.
Arsenal have put themselves in a precarious position after losing three
out of their first five
Champions League games, but Arsene Wenger believes that the
Gunners have been unlucky with referees, sendings off and own goals which has left them in this situation.
Paul Clement may have just arrived in the Premiership as Swansea's third manager this season, but considering that he has come straight from the Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich — who are the
Gunners next opponents in the
Champions League — he had already been involved in working
out how to get the better
of Arsene Wenger's men.
Unfortunately Arsenal fan base were split and that help Wenger to stay 10 years without wining anything and lately was very proud that he won the Fa cup and not the
champion league championship.It is really time for him to go and immediately > All Arsenal fans should unite and make their voices heard and push Weger
out of Arsenal as soon as possible > Arsenal fans you are the
gunners and you can take decisions and forced the board and the shareholders by boycotting all Arsenal matches if they don't listen to you.
Ramsey has certainly made a good start though, as he has been a key figure for the
Gunners as we bounced back and bagged a first Premier
League win in four games last weekend and then again as we pulled our
Champions League arses
out of the fire in Athens, after which Steven Gerrard called him the best in the division in that role.
Arsenal became the last English club to bow
out of the
Champions League on Wednesday despite a 2 - 0 second - leg win at Bayern Munich as the
Gunners lost their last - 16 tie on away goals.
I think that Arsenal fans have perhaps been a little bit spoiled by the fact that Arsene Wenger has always managed to get the
Gunners into and then
out of the group stages
of the Uefa
Champions League.
As Arsenal lost their first two
Champions League Group games to the outsiders, it is now imperative that the
Gunners get something
out of their two games against Bayern Munich or they will have little chance
of progressing to the knockout stages.
The
Gunners finished in fifth place last season, missing
out on the
Champions League and ending 18 points adrift of champions
Champions League and ending 18 points adrift
of championschampions Chelsea.
As well as the kudos
of being in the
Champions League and the attraction it holds for current players or transfer targets, the money the
Gunners earned every season was a big help in getting us
out of debt quicker and allowing Wenger to now spend big money on players like Alexis and Ozil.
The Teeside team are likely to provide a tough test for the
Gunners, and they will be full
of self - belief after knocking
out the Premier
League champions at the weekend.
Well that is one Arsenal win down and eight to go for the
Gunners if we are to somehow rescue this season from disaster and with the
Gunners now
out of the
champions League and the FA cup, the only thing that will do is for us to chase down Leicester City and Tottenham and for Arsenal to win the Premier
League title.
Smith was speaking after the
Gunners were held by Paris Saint - Germain in the
Champions League on Wednesday night, following on from draws with Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United which have taken the steam
out of their impressive early start to the campaign.
The
Gunners pay massive wages, but still see finishing fourth in the Premier
League and getting
out of their UEFA
Champions League group as success.
Today at 11 am UK time (12 noon CET) Arsenal fans will finally find
out who the
Gunners will be facing in the first knockout round
of the
Champions League.
Not content with knocking Arsenal
out of the
Champions League on away goals, the Monaco boss Leonardo Jardim rubbed salt into the wounds by accusing Arsene Wenger and the
Gunners of showing a lack
of respect to his team.
A rebuild is obviously neccesary with Arsenal finishing
out of the
Champions League places last season, and looking very likely to repeat that again this season, so it is obvious that Alexis is unlikely to get his wish to win a Premier
League medal with the
Gunners.
Arsene Wenger spoke in the week about the big gap between Arsenal and the current Premier
League leaders might just allow the
Gunners to play with some
of the old fluency and verve that saw us topping the table at the turn
of the year and even though the
Gunners were knocked
out of the
Champions League in midweek, there were enough positives from our performance against Barcelona to give us some belief back.
Going
out of the UEFA
Champions League on virtue
of away goals would have hurt the
Gunners, who put in a splendid effort against AS Monaco in the second leg
of the tie.
Some media sources are saying that the Arsenal and England star Jack Wilshere is
out of the
Gunners squad that will take on Monaco in the first
of two legs that we are all hoping will see the club progress to the quarter - finals
of the
Champions League after four years
of falling at the first knockout hurdle.
The
Gunners crashed
out of the
Champions League with a 10 - 2 aggregate scoreline against the German giants, heaping more pressure on Wenger with some supporters protesting against him prior to kick - off.
The
Gunners are destined to be, once again,
out of the
Champions League at the same stage as usual and mired in a battle for a Top Four place, just as we were last season, the season before, and so on and son.....
The
Gunners played
out last season with Petr Cech as our main goalkeeper, and with the Colombian used as backup, as well as in the
Champions League and a majority
of cup competitions.
I have no idea how Arsene Wenger is going to get the Arsenal players up for the final few games
of the Premier
League season, but the Frenchman needs to find a way to inspire the
Gunners and be quick about it, or the campaign could end not only in disappointment but disaster if we crash
out of the
Champions League for the first time in the reign
of the prof.... Read the full article here
Another season
out of the
Champions League for the spuds will certainly help to convince the France international number one that his career would be much better off down the road at the Emirates stadium with the
Gunners, where he would also join up with international team mates like Mathieu Debuchy, Laurent Koscielny and Olivier Giroud.
Arsene Wenger and the Arsenal players will have put the midweek
Champions League defeat to Dinamo Zagreb firmly to one side and
out of their minds long before the
Gunners starting XI takes to Stamford Bridge pitch today, or that it what the manager believes anyway.
Of course the Gunners did not want to drop out of the elite competition that is the Champions League, but the boss suggested it might be a good thing as we could then focus all our energies on the new Premier League title rac
Of course the
Gunners did not want to drop
out of the elite competition that is the Champions League, but the boss suggested it might be a good thing as we could then focus all our energies on the new Premier League title rac
of the elite competition that is the
Champions League, but the boss suggested it might be a good thing as we could then focus all our energies on the new Premier
League title race.
Great Reception???, tell you the truth Im not one
of those
gunners who started supporting the
gunners during the invicibles or early Wenger double winning years, quite honestly i wasnt ineterested in football and I liked a certain Crespo and Shevchenko meaning I liked the blue half
of London, surprisingly when Mourinho joined I stopped watching football all together, till one glorious
Champions League Night, It was my first ever Match there was a certain 20 year old highly rated youngster who scored a wonder goal that day he played with such skill and passion ever since then I started supporting arsenal that was during the barren years.I actually liked Barcelona because
of their similarity with the arsenal, so when Fabregas joined Barca I started to watch them a bit more I still loved Arsenal and I was extremely passionate, the other players i adored left in painful manners, while some left which was still painful: i.e Eboue.I always taught cesc would come back and when it was official he was leaving Barca i said Finally almost hosting a party.Well reports started coming
out that he is going to join chelsea and i laughed so hard and said he would be the last player on earth to do that, when it became official words cant express how i felt, He was the reason I started watching football he lit up the emirates with exquisite touches through balls to walcott, its a shame I would have preferred he joined bayern, or remained in barca its terrible reading the comments he made recently about the emirates, This was a captain, someone who led, anyways, like ive learnt and Arsenal have learnt, We do nt live in the past Like Liverpool (no pun) WE ARE THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE (Crowley)(Puma) WE ARE ARSENAL.....
While most
of the talk about Arsenal today will revolve around the
Champions League competition, which the
Gunners are still in while our next Premier
League opponents Liverpool crashed
out at the group stage despite am easy looking draw.
Arsene Wenger got
out of the group stages by largely utilising his fringe players and young prospects but, now sitting eight points off the top four, winning the Europa
League arguably presents the
Gunners with their best shot
of returning to the
Champions League.
Not much has really changed with the
Gunners; they finished with four points more than they did in last year's second - place run, but Tottenham, Chelsea, Liverpool, and City all rose up far enough to push them
out of the
Champions League for the first time in 20 seasons.