Arsenal looked in good shape today, but face a completely different prospect
against Champions League opponents Olympiakos on Wednesday night.
The Real Sociedad captain hit a brace, including a late near post winner in his side's 4 - 3 win
against Champions League hopefuls Sevilla at Anoeta.
Secondly Delph played at home the week before
against a Champions League strength Fiorentina squad in a friendly and performed exceptionally.
Real Madrid superstar Cristiano Ronaldo insists that he will not celebrate if he scores
against Champions League opponents Manchester United.
Because if West Brom don't produce another shock
against Champions League semi-finalists Liverpool, then their race is all but run and their relegation to the Championship all but confirmed.
City once again had their backs
against the Champions League wall when Yevhen Konoplyanka, long linked with a move to England as the Daily Star reports, made Sevilla's pressure pay after half an hour.
But with these two latest goals
against a Champions League rival, Alli's dad's decision to walk out in him when he was a baby has really been put under the spotlight.
Borussia Dortmund's inconsistent run saw them suffer a 2 - 0 loss
against Champions League rival Schalke at the Veltins Arena.
Following victories over Celtic and Benfica, Sir Alex's side looked to make it three wins out of three in the group stage
against Champions League newcomers FC Copenhagen.
The Italian giants were reportedly travelling by train for their away fixture
against Champions League qualification rivals Fiorentina.
After getting a serious dressing down on live TV by former Arsenal midfielder Paul Merson last night, as the Gunners toiled
against Champions League minnows Anderlecht in Belgium, Arsene Wenger and his players have come in for more criticism today.
Not exact matches
The 45 - year - old is, of course, referring to the jaw - dropping volley he scored
against Bayer Leverkusen in the 2002
Champions League final at Hampden Park in Scotland.
Just 25 years old, Salah still has plenty of room to grow, but has been nothing short of astounding for Liverpool this year, and entered the first leg of the
Champions League semifinal
against Roma in the best form of his career.
Real Madrid will face its La Liga rival Atlético Madrid in the
Champions League final for the second straight year thanks to Bale's tough - angle shot in the 20th minute
against Manchester City.
Jurgen Klopp saluted his Liverpool heroes as they survived a semi-final thriller
against Roma to book a
Champions League final showdown with Real Madrid.
Liverpool reached the
Champions League final for the first time in 11 years after a 7 - 6 aggregate win
against Roma on Wednesday.
Zinedine Zidane sprung a surprise by dropping Casemiro for Real Madrid's
Champions League semi-final second leg
against Bayern Munich on Tuesday.
In my opinion it would be silly not to play our strongest side
against the strongest of European opponents and that of course means the
Champions League winner Petr Cech in goal ahead of David Ospina.
They were knocked out of the
Champions League quarter - finals to Liverpool on Tuesday night and failed to win the Premier
League title
against rivals Manchester Utd last weekend — after surrendering a two goal lead.
A Man Utd predicted line up as the Red Devils take on PSV in their opening game of the
Champions League, with Anthony Martial tipped to start after his superb debut goal
against Liverpool at the weekend...
Writing about Sutton won't change that we were shocking
against Watford and we will never win the title or
champions league with Wenger as manager
Arsenal centre - back Gabriel Paulista has revealed the Gunners» intentions ahead of their
Champions League match
against Bayern Munich in midweek.
«We didn't start the season very well so it was very important to win these two games —
Champions League against Maccabi Tel Aviv and the derby
against Arsenal.
It was also because we had the
Champions League qualifier and that cost us a lot of energy
against Besiktas.
In fact our only
Champions League game that topped this one in the past five years was our 2 - 1 win
against Barcelona at the Emirates.
The 30 year - old was rightly chosen for the Man of the Match award for his outstanding performance
against the Premier
League champions.
If you wasn't tryin your best to be a knobhead «Buddie» which round my part of NW London [buddie] means your dick... You'd know that Jack Wilshire was in the
champion league final
against barcelona and at that time he was round 18 yrs old and ran their much acclaimed mid-field ragged and it was a catalyst for him as from then on he was counted among the most promising mid-fielders arsenal and england had ever produced.
Forster has shot to prominence with his displays for Celtic over the last couple of years, but has now moved on from the Glasgow club despite their
Champions League reprieve and upcoming play - off tie against Slovenian champions
Champions League reprieve and upcoming play - off tie
against Slovenian
championschampions Maribor.
There are also a few shocks on final positioning in this year's group stages so the Gunners could once again be drawn
against a potential
champions league winner early on in the competition.
It's a do or die game for our
champions league hopes and what with Wenger's (separate) poor
league records
against Mo and Utd, this sure looks like being double trouble for us poor Gooners.?
He only started 16 Serie A games & finished with 7 goals & 7 assists in a tight Serie A. He's a big game player - scored in the
Champions League final
against Barcelona in 2014/15 & both legs of the semis
against Real, & the recent Italian Cup final this season with his first touch.
What better way to start than the second - leg
against Monaco — with a 3 - 1 defeat suffered in the first - leg — this would be the perfect moment for Ozil to silence his critics, and spur Arsenal on to an epic
Champions League comeback.
this is a man who played yaya sanogo
against bayern munich in the knock out stage of the
champions league rather than buy reinforcements
Arsene Wenger was never going to come out and say that Arsenal are out of the
Champions League, as we still have the second leg
against Barcelona at the Nou Camp to play in a couple of weeks.
Away
against a top side in the
Champions League you have to take your chances...
Whether Arsene Wenger chooses to rest a few first team players for the
Champions League away game
against Barcelona on Wednesday night remains to be seen, but judging from his comments in the press conference today reported by The Mirror, I would not be at all surprised.
Arsenal took on Besiktas in the 2nd leg of their
Champions League playoff tie
against Besiktas last night, needing an outright win to progress through to the group stages of the competition for the 17th year running.
Arsenal playmaker Mesut Ozil faced colossal criticism for his uninspired performance in the embarrassing
Champions League defeat to Ligue 1 outfit AS Monaco last Wednesday, but after grabbing two assists
against Everton on Sunday — are the German's critics unjust?
Man Utd hope to have fellow Spaniards Juan Mata and Ander Herrera fit for the game
against Cristiano Ronaldo's
Champions League winners.
Which Jack did you see in
Champions league final
against Barca?
After a very poor start
against Liverpool, followed up by a draw
against the Premier
League Champions, the last thing Arsenal needed was another break for international games.
I appreciate the talent of Bellerin as much as the next man but let's not forget this is an away match in the
Champions League against the next best team in the group.
It was two more frustrating seasons culminating in a fantastic performance that led us out of the
champions league at home
against Monaco.
His latest starring role came
against Man City in the
Champions League on Wednesday night, and while he's enjoying the form of his career and the Reds are flourishing because of it, a move elsewhere would seemingly make no sense for either.
Not like Man Utd won the
champions league in 1999
against Bayern with a team of kids ever.
Vidal continues to say that Munich is the best team in the world, and he can certainly point to Arsenal's humiliation
against Bayern in the
Champions League to emphasise the gap in quality between the two sides, but he believes that Alexis will make the Germans into an even better side.
As expected, Arsene Wenger has brought back the players rested for the
Champions League game in midweek and so Arsenal will start at Stamford Bridge with the same 11 players that won our last Premier
League game
against Stoke City.
The scenes of the player's agony were reminiscent of Shaw's misfortune
against PSV Eindhoven in the
Champions League earlier in the season.
This Tuesday we face Barcelona FC in the
Champions League and anyone but the most blind faithed wouldn't give us much hope of getting past them (especially based on our past performances in the UCL, bar one instance
against them).
He's scoring the winning
champion's
league final goal
against Barcelona