Match Reaction - Dortmund

[Nayan]

That was an odd tie, Bayern did all the hard work away and didn't turn up at home, it's almost like they thought it was won, it won't be the case with Dortmund as it's all to play for.

Had Bayern played like they can on the day they've have beaten us comfortably as they were a far superior team.

It was an away win and shutout over 90 minutes at the business end of the chammions league versus the best team in europe and eventual champions that season. You cant dismiss it as 'an odd result.'
Well you can, if you want to be deliberately disingenuous I suppose. ANyway the point was only that it shows its quite possible that Arsenal 'on their day,' 'when all's said and done,' and 'at the end of the day,' to visit the ground of a decent European team and prevail over 90 minutes, - whether one is idiotic enough to try to 'explain' it away as an odd result or not is of no fucking relevance whatsoever.

thank you.

[Özil's Panoramic View]

Ozil will not play anywhere near his best till he has runners to unleash killer balls to. ATM, we're just too narrow, and yesterday we even had him playing as a right winger. Can't stress how much we're missing Walcott, despite him being prone to putting in erratic performances at times.

Wilshere was poor, but the real shocker was Ramsey. He seemed a bit too confident yesterday, as if he didn't realise we weren't up against the usual dross in the EPL. He seems to be a lad who is open to learning and correcting his flaws though, so here's to hoping he won't take same approach against top teams again.

[BOBN]

Ozil will not play anywhere near his best till he has runners to unleash killer balls to. ATM, we're just too narrow, and yesterday we even had him playing as a right winger. Can't stress how much we're missing Walcott, despite him being prone to putting in erratic performances at times.

Wilshere was poor, but the real shocker was Ramsey. He seemed a bit too confident yesterday, as if he didn't realise we weren't up against the usual dross in the EPL. He seems to be a lad who is open to learning and correcting his flaws though, so here's to hoping he won't take same approach against top teams again.

Top post.

[Özim]

It was an away win and shutout over 90 minutes at the business end of the chammions league versus the best team in europe and eventual champions that season. You cant dismiss it as 'an odd result.'
Well you can, if you want to be deliberately disingenuous I suppose. ANyway the point was only that it shows its quite possible that Arsenal 'on their day,' 'when all's said and done,' and 'at the end of the day,' to visit the ground of a decent European team and prevail over 90 minutes, - whether one is idiotic enough to try to 'explain' it away as an odd result or not is of no fucking relevance whatsoever.

thank you.

You can because they simply didn't play, we didn't win because we played particularly well or were a better side but just because it's almost like they played it like a training match. I don't look at that result and think what a great performance and win, if Bayern had played they'd have beaten us even if we had been on our day as they were far superior to us.

[Xhaka Can’t]

Bullshit. That is conjecture. We beat them and towards the end of the match, they were hanging on for their CL lives.

[JonasTC]

You can because they simply didn't play, we didn't win because we played particularly well or were a better side but just because it's almost like they played it like a training match. I don't look at that result and think what a great performance and win, if Bayern had played they'd have beaten us even if we had been on our day as they were far superior to us.

Stop yourself pls... Did they play a "training match" after they had won 4-0 home vs barca and went to camp nou and won 3-0?

We're still the only team that have beaten them in 2013, so you can throw all your arguments out of the window.

[Özim]

Bullshit. That is conjecture. We beat them and towards the end of the match, they were hanging on for their CL lives.

Yeah, no not really they never looked like they were going out, at 2-0 I don't think we even had a shot.

They just didn't turn up, they commented on it recently saying it was a very odd match and it was, didn't feel like a competitive CL match.

[Özim]

Stop yourself pls... Did they play a "training match" after they had won 4-0 home vs barca and went to camp nou and won 3-0?

We're still the only team that have beaten them in 2013, so you can throw all your arguments out of the window.

Maybe they took Barca more seriously, after all Barca had already turned around a big deficit in a previous tie.

[milla]

[Letters]

Yeah, no not really they never looked like they were going out, at 2-0 I don't think we even had a shot.

We only got the 2nd goal on 86 minutes

I don't look at that result and think what a great performance and win

Of course not, that would mean giving us some credit.