THREE reasons why Arsenal’s Champions League adventure is far from over

by Josh Clarke share

19/2/2014 | 10:08pm

Arsenal travel to the Allianz Arena for the second leg of their Champions League round of 16 tie battling back from a two goal deficit.

Bayern Munich saw off Arsene Wenger’s men; capitalising after Wojciech Szczesny was sent off for bringing down Arjen Robben in the box.

From there the Bavarians seized control, with strikes from Toni Kroos and Thomas Muller leaving the Gunners with an uphill struggle.

However, all is not lost for Arsenal. Far from it. Here are three reasons why the dream isn’t over…

1) With 11 men on the pitch Arsenal more than took the game to Bayern…

The first 10 minutes we took it to the best team in the world and we dominated them. Red card just killed off any hopes.

— The Arsenal (@Artekkers) February 19, 2014

What a brilliant start by Sanogo and Arsenal. They look like their going to score in every attack.

— iFootball (@iFootball_) February 19, 2014

Bayern are class. Accept it. We were great before the red card, take heart from that.

— Aaron Booshay (@southerngooner) February 19, 2014

Brilliant, high-tempo start from Arsenal. Brilliant save from Neuer from Ozil pen. Hope it doesn’t cost Arsenal too dearly

— Oliver Holt (@OllieHolt22) February 19, 2014

2) If they win a penalty, they know to not let Mesut Ozil anywhere near it. Unless he promises to stop mucking around and take it properly…

Two minutes of the highs and lows of Mesut Ozil summed up in 7 seconds https://t.co/dGWLe8PVAl #AFC #AFCFCB

— FootballFanCast.com (@FootballFanCast) February 19, 2014

In the second leg in Munich, the game will go into penalties and Ozil will have his revenge by scoring the winning penalty.

— FG (@FunnyGooner) February 19, 2014

That was some soft penalty that Ozil took, why wouldn’t you drill that

— Manny (@Mannydas) February 19, 2014

3) Urrrm, remember what happened last time at the Allianz Arena…?

Mertesacker: “We are looking forward to Munich, why can we not repeat that from last year?” #AFC #AFCFCB pic.twitter.com/rqiQywzfd4

— FootballFanCast.com (@FootballFanCast) February 19, 2014