Totally surprised indeed to see Sango who has not played this season at all for Arsenal got included in the Arsenal's
Ucl knockout stage A list.
And beat Bayern Munich tomorrow night at the Allianz Arena in the first leg of the two legged encounters of
the Ucl knockout stage match between them and us.
So if, as seems likely, Arsenal do fail to make it to
the UCL knockout stage for the first time in donkeys years everyone will remember that moment and blame Ospina.
To the positives then, and the main one is that we have actually made it to
the UCL knockout stage, unlike some clubs I could mention (cough, spuds, cough) and the fact is that the two groups seem more even this year with the big names spread around more.
For example, he has scored 16 of our last 23 goals in
UCL knockout stages.
Ofcourse Arsenal's Gunners will not underestimate the resolves of the Olympiakos to qualify for
the Ucl knockout stages draw.
Not exact matches
We don't need a calculator to calculate the remaining Arsenal's chances to qualify for the
knockout stages of the
Ucl, do we?
It is not really going too far to say that Arsenal v Galatasaray on Wednesday night is a must win game for the Gunners, at least if we are to keep our hopes alive of actually winning our
UCL group this time and avoiding the likes of Bayern Munich and Barcelona in the first
knockout stage.
Many teams still in
UCL will look at him as an option to bolsterbefore
knockout stage start.
Defend well and you still have a good chance of reaching next
knockout stage in teh 2nd leg, thats what we saw in
UCL this evening.
I agree it was a close game but in the
knockout stages of the
UCL quality makes the difference and our striking options are not world - class.