Match Reaction vs Atletico Madrid (home).

[Xhaka Can’t]

Wenger: Opportunity missed. Can only look at ourselves.

[Niall_Quinn]

We desperately missed him tonight. We needed someone to pick the lock and Ozil struggled to do it by himself.

I don't think so. We'd still have been playing the same system and the same ridiculous possession game. Maybe he wouldn't have been as braindead as Welbeck, but then again, maybe Le Professor would have benched Laca and started Welbeck anyway. Maybe he'll do that for the return leg. Maybe he'll do a lot of things but the one thing he won't do is sort out the defence.

[Niall_Quinn]

Wenger: Opportunity missed. Can only look at ourselves.

The fans all getting behind the team having been split beforehand was too much of a wild swing and it unsettled things before such a big match. The cunting fans. Again.

[Xhaka Can’t]

At 1-0 up, it was going to be all about the defence. Now we really need to go for it because we know we won’t keep a clean sheet there. If we are not to go out we need at least 2 goals.

May as well go hell for leather.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

I've been offered the 'opportunity' to work 12-8 next Thursday? In doing so I'd miss 60 minutes of the match.

I'm probably an idiot but I'm going to say no.

[Niall_Quinn]

I've been offered the 'opportunity' to work 12-8 next Thursday? In doing so I'd miss 60 minutes of the match.

I'm probably an idiot but I'm going to say no.

You are definitely an idiot.

I had the chance to go out tonight and I said yes, and then had to ring back 5 mins later to cancel. So used to forgetting about our matches being on. I'll watch next week, but only because it's Wenger's last game in Europe and it can only get better.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

He has somehow pubbed wins away in big stadiums before but at a semi-final stage?

[Xhaka Can’t]

I've been offered the 'opportunity' to work 12-8 next Thursday? In doing so I'd miss 60 minutes of the match.

I'm probably an idiot but I'm going to say no.

It’s my wife’s birthday.

I’ll be missing the whole game.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

I'll come celebrate that instead.

[Niall_Quinn]

He has somehow pubbed wins away in big stadiums before but at a semi-final stage?

Nah. You saw their defending tonight and we don't have anyone to bring in to make a difference. And Wenger will play it exactly the same way.

Pace is what we need against that defence. And direct balls (or just balls tbf). Especially against 10 men FFS. You were right in theory, they should have tired. But the tempo of our game was too low to make it happen. We have to up that temp and take some risks, but guess who won't go for that.