Tagged with UCL

Sep 2011

29th

Arsenal 2-1 Olympiacos.

We’ve done pretty well at home against the Greek champions in the past, but an away defeat year taught us that playing a second string side in the champions league not without risk.

Mar 2011

9th

Beaten by a much better team

We defended heroically –as heroically as you can with that infamous backline–but barça simply was too good for The Arsenal last night.

Nov 2010

4th

Shakhtar Donestk 2 -1 Arsenal, Lessons still not learnt.

Complacency marks a missed opportunity to qualify fro the Champions league group, as not for the first time Arsenal goes down 2-1 in Ukraine.

Nov 2010

3rd

Shakhtar preview, player wages.

Arsenal visit Shakhtar who can call their home a fortress. Since Oct 2008 Shakhtar has not lost a single home game in any competition.

Sep 2009

30th

Arsenal 2 – 0 Olympiacos — Patience pays off for Arsenal

Perhaps determined not to have a repeat of Standard Liege, Arsenal came out with all guns blazing. Unfortunately the gun-sights were not correctly calibrated.

Aug 2009

19th

Celtic 0 – 2 Arsenal. A solid start to the campaign.

It would be wrong to say that the players might have suddenly discovered a magic formula over the off-season break, but Arsenal has so far showed an edge to their game that they didn’t have at the same time last year.

Oct 2008

21st

Depleted Arsenal face test at Sukru Saracoglu

Unlike some of our domestic ties, I believe we are more capable of controlling European ties, their style suits us. I strongly believe the only thing between us and champions league glory is another English side.

Aug 2008

28th

Arsenal 4 – 0 Fc Twente – 5 observations

After the debacle of Craven Cottage, last night’s game was just what the doctor ordered. Arsenal had a 2 goal advantage going in the game so getting to the group stages was not an issue, the question was what kind of performance would we get from the Arsenal?