Hours earlier in the morning, Arsenal have completed a rather impossible win over 'the best team in the world at the moment' as according to Arsene Wenger. Bayern Munich have fallen 2-0 away to a stubborn yet viciously hunger Arsenal side as they outplayed Bayern with style. After this match, Arsenal have finally back into the game of qualifying the group stage after losing out their first two group matches, as the typical Arsenal once again showed the world that their quality could be match with the other top clubs too.
During the match, fans couldn't help theirselves but to feel nervous throughout the whole match as the match is full of goal chances and opportunities. The uncharacteristic Bayern Muchen have no answer to Arsenal counter-attacking raid as Manuel Nueur already did his best in the match yet still failed to help his team. One remarkable magic of Nueur came before half-time as he denies a powerful close range Walcott's header.
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| Nueur made to full stretched to save Walcott's header |
However, this is not to say Arsenal Petr Cech has a quiet game as he's busy in the entire match and has been given a well deserved Man of the match honour. Cech showed Arsene Wenger he made a mistake of playing Ospina in the Champions League instead of him by making more saves than Nueur in the match.
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| Cech parried out an Arturo Vidal's shot |
In a match where Arsenal were forced to be cautious defensively as Ramsey, Özil, and Sanchez often tracked back to assist their fellow defending team-mates to ensure the likes of Robert Lewandowski and Douglas Costa don't stand a chance in scoring. As most already anticipated, Bayern were dominating Arsenal in terms of possession by playing more passes and being more accurate in passing.
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| Bayern dominated Arsenal in the match |
However, Arsenal were very determined and stubborn during the match as they craft something out of nothing. With Özil gives out the kind of pass that's needed by Walcott in a counter attack raid and Ramsey commited to go forward to fill in empty position, Arsenal's tactics were paying dividends as they have created more vicious opportunities than Bayern. This can be easily seen where Arsenal have more shots on target (8) than Bayern's (6), although Bayern have more attempts on goal.
The question is how could they outplayed a team like Bayern while being pressed to the deep yet still able to came out as the winner? The answer to this is pretty easy as some Arsenal players are outstanding in the match, not included the goal-keeper,
1)Per and Koscielny Partnership
The first could be seen where Per Mertesacker and Koscielny paired up pretty good defensively and they minimize the threats of Bayern's attack. There are some remarkable moments in the game when the fans thought Arsenal's going conceded their leading in the closing stage but not when Per and Koscielny is at his best.
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| Koscielny puts the ball to corner to provide cover for Petr Cech |
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| Mertesacker refuses to let Lewandowski to get in the box |
2)In-form Bellerin
A motivated Hector Bellerin also shine in the match as he blocked plenty of crosses and most remarkably a beautiful run that saw him provided an assist for Özil. As well as Bellerin, Özil is also outstanding in this match as he provides some beautiful passes to his team-mates and made off some beautiful run.
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| Özil celebrates after tapped in a crossed ball from Bellerin
3) The X-factor
Although Sanchez didn't score in this match and even made an error back pass that saw Arsenal almost pay for the price as a courtesy of Mertesacker's effort is enough to avoid the miserable. However, Sanchez's still look dangerous in going forward and laying long passes.
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