I
haven’t written about Arsenal for some time, I know. We went into the match
knowing we had all to do in this leg having been beaten at home. Well, we know
Arsenal. They never make things easy for themselves. Everyone had written us
off and to be honest, I was struggling to be optimistic and realistic about it.
What
do you know, we scored in the third minute thanks to Giroud who scored his
first goal since the match against Liverpool. Let’s hope the goal drought is
over now although Theo’s doesn’t seem to end yet.
Strangely,
we managed to contain the home side with Fabianski in goal for the first time
in over a year rarely troubled. Even the defence was encouraging!
Koscielny
added a late second after the early first and for a while it looked like we
could have done it - had we not made mistakes towards the end. Still, it was
dignity in elimination, victory in defeat and a rare humbling of the Bundesliga
runaway winners.
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