10/04/2018 11:44 am - With both Roma and Juventus needing to overturn
heavy first leg defeats, Football Italia looks at five teams they could take inspiration from...
Juventus are perhaps the last team a football fan should write off after
a heavy first leg defeat in a two - legged tie.
Not exact matches
The Wanderers slumped to its
heaviest defeat in its history last Friday when they went down 4 - 1 to the Melbourne Victory, prompting Arnold to suggest Tony Popovic's side were focusing on their ACL
first leg clash with Al Hilal on October 25.
But the Blues will go into this game — with a bit of concern after their momentum was brought to a crushing halt by a
heavy defeat in the Champions League Quarter - final
first leg away from home against Liverpool.
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Heaviest away
defeat 3 - 2 twice, most recently VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach v Arsenal 25/09/96,
first round second
leg 2 - 1 twice, most recently RC Deportivo La Coruña v Arsenal 09/03/00, fourth round second
leg 1 - 0 three times, most recently PAOK FC v Arsenal 16/09/97,
first round
first leg
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Heaviest away
defeat 5 - 1: FC Bayern München v Arsenal 15/02/17, UEFA Champions League round of 16
first leg 5 - 1: FC Bayern München 04/11/15, UEFA Champions League group stage 4 - 0: AC Milan v Arsenal 15/02/12, UEFA Champions League round of 16
first leg
• The
first leg was Juve's joint
heaviest home European
defeat, equalling their 3 - 0 loss against Manchester United FC in the 2002/03 second group stage and the 4 - 1
defeat at home to Bayern on matchday six in 2009/10.
• Salzburg's 0 - 4 loss at home to Parma in the
first leg of the 2003/04 UEFA Cup second round is the club's joint
heaviest European home
defeat.
Arsenal's
heaviest defeat in this competition came at home to Russian opponents, going down 5 - 2 against Spartak Moskva in the 1982/83
first round second
leg.
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Heaviest away
defeat 3 - 1 on four occasions, most recently v KKS Lech Poznań 04/11/10, group stage 2 - 0 on four occasions, most recently v FC Dynamo Kyiv 10/03/11, round of 16
first leg
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Heaviest home
defeat 1 - 3: Manchester City v FC Bayern München 02/10/13, UEFA Champions League group stage 0 - 2: Manchester City v FC Barcelona 18/02/14, UEFA Champions League round of 16
first leg
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Heaviest away
defeat 6 - 2: FC København v Bayern 22/10/91, UEFA Cup second round
first leg 5 - 1: Eintracht Frankfurt v Bayern 22/04/80, UEFA Cup semi-finals
first leg 4 - 0 on four occasions, most recently v FC Barcelona 08/04/09, UEFA Champions League quarter - finals
first leg
Having won the
first leg 1 - 0 away, United go into the game
heavy favourites to qualify for the final however the
defeat against Arsenal means this game becomes even bigger than it already was which means more pressure on the team.
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Heaviest away
defeat 6 - 1: FC Bayern München v Porto 21/04/15, UEFA Champions League quarter - final second
leg 6 - 1: AEK Athens FC v Porto 13/09/78, European Champion Clubs» Cup
first round
first leg 5 - 0: twice, most recently v Arsenal FC 09/03/10, UEFA Champions League round of 16 second
leg
Celtic are facing the prospect of missing out on qualifying for the UEFA Champions League group stages after a
heavy defeat in their third qualifying round
first -
leg encounter against Legia Warsaw.
The result equalled Barcelona's worst - ever Champions League
defeat - and no team has overturned such a
heavy first -
leg deficit in the competition.