Quote Originally Posted by Özim View Post
Great result, not entirely surprised we've gone through as there's two things AW is good at getting 4th place and getting into the last 16 of the CL, everything else he's woefully inept at.

In all likelyness we'll play a decent side now and wave our goodbyes to the competition.
Woefully inept is over- egging it - but I can see what you are getting at - and you PnG to a degree.

With Wenger - it always seems sometimes like there's a glass ceiling for his teams that allows them to get so far - to flatter to deceive if you like - only to fall short of proper success. I guess what you are saying, PnG is that while we did undoubtedly show the mental strength, composure and team performance necessary to go through on Wednesday night - Wenger's teams are, and have always been, capable of pulling off a good result - never more so than in getting to our glass ceiling of last 16 CL qualification or top 4 EPL.

I suppose its perfectly valid for both of you to take the view that a 'real performance' would be one that ended up breaking our 'glass ceiling'.

And that's the problem I guess. I was genuinely impressed with us on Wednesday - but without evidence of a proper step up by this team it will be just another of the many causes for optimism that we have had over the years, only to ultimately be let down.