The_Hitcher89
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I think Arsenal got it spot on. Tasked Bayern with turning massive possession near the box into decent chances inside it, and they had no answer with Lewandowski seemed strangely reticent to take a shot on.
If Bayern had played at their best they'd have won obviously, but Arsenal handily outnumbered them on proper chances. Think Arsenal played well, more than Bayern playing badly. Think Guardiola was naive in his approach, and expected Arsenal to go gung ho and leave holes at the back, and hadn't devised a suitable strategy to deal with the combination of tightness at the back and threat on the break.
They were out-thought, rather than having an off-day in terms of player-performances. Much the same thing has happened in both of their last exits from the CL iirc, when they looked like favourites for the competition and were then comprehensively out-thought and thus outplayed by reasonably predictable setups.
If Bayern set up the same way in the latter knockouts, there's no way they're winning it. They can talk about injuries, but that give that group of players that played today some proper team directives against anyone, and they should be creating more than one clear chance over an entire match.
When you're playing against a team that's just better than you, you need them to have an off-day, since even a good performance normally isn't enough otherwise. And Wenger's tactics gave them the best possible chance of both playing well, and forcing that off-day upon a superior team who were clearly tactically underprepared.
Sorry Bla, but you were spot on. But this one loss means nothing for the Bayern group win.
