It all comes down to this, Arsenal have to do the unthinkable if they stand a chance to qualify for the Quarter finals of this year’s Champions league. They have to overcome one of the strongest teams in Europe this season and in front of their home crowd much like they did in the 2003-04 season against Inter Milan. It is a rare sight in football that a team overcomes a 3-1 deficit in the second leg, but as they say, nothing is impossible if you dare dream big.
Arsenal and Bayern are going through a season with a vast difference in standards as the North Londoners stand at the edge of the clip with only a glimpse hope of Champions league qualification while the Bavarians have destroyed their opponents in the league and have opened up a massive 20 point gap over Borussia Dortmund and also have had an exciting run in the European tournament as well.
If Arsenal do get thrashed tonight, it will be the first time since the 1995-96 season that an English team will not feature in the last eight of the competition and thus will start a fresh debate about the power shift in European football not only to Spain but also to Germany, who could have as many as three representatives in the last eight of the competition.
Arsene Wenger has rightly pointed out the same in his pre-match Interview:
“The chance is small, but the chance makes the impossible possible. That would be a great credit for our team if we do it. We have to try to achieve it.”
Team News and Injury updates:
Both the teams have been rocked with the news from their treatment tables as potential match winners have been ruled out for either teams. Just when the Gunners where starting to get a meagre hope after hearing the news from Germany that French International Franck Ribery picked up an ankle injury their influential midfielder Jack Wilshere was announced injured and is set to miss the game and potentially the rest of the season with an ankle injury. And the list does not stop there, right back Sagna and striker Podolski are also major doubts for the game.
Injury update on Wilshere by Wenger:
“It was bone bruising last time, which deteriorated into a stress fracture. That is what we don’t want to happen, nobody knows if it was going to happen again.
“We do a regular scan on him[Wilshere] and, on one of the scans, it showed up bone bruising on the heel on the right foot. He had some inflammation on the right ankle, where he had surgery, and certainly compensated to protect that ankle, and put too much pressure on the left one.
“Every month, he [Wilshere] has a scan of the two ankles because you ask him how he is and he says, ‘Perfect.’
For Bayern Ribery will be join Arjen Robben who is also a major doubt for the game having problems with a calf strain and the German’s have to start the game with a revised team as Bastian Schweinsteiger and Jerome Boateng are both suspended for the game.
Possible starting lineups:
Bayern: Neuer; Lahm, Van Buyten, Dante, Alaba; Martinez, Gustavo; Shaqiri, Kroos, Muller; Mandzukic
Arsenal: Szczesny; Jenkinson, Koscielny, Mertesacker, Vermaelen; Ramsey, Arteta, Wilshere; Cazorla, Walcott, Giroud.
Match Facts:
Prediction: 3-1 win for the home side.
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