Apparently we've got to try and beat Zagreb (to qualify), also win away in Greece by 2 clear goals. As some here have said. So its either qualify or bust. Don't think tonight's result changes much as gd apparently doesn't come into it.
Our squad is pretty thread bare as it is. Ospina is injured. I'm not sure we could even field a second XI at the moment.
Just watching that Giroud goal again, lovely finish. Also Ozil played really well. If Bellerin and Kos are back for Sunday, then I think we'll beat the Spuds and confidence will be sky high again.
Its not so much the competition as the different travel times and the awkwardness of playing on a Thursday. It will kill our already thin squad.
I dont get it..... Winning at hone against Zagreb should be relatively easy. Then going to greece to win by 2 goals is not impossible....we went to Milan and had to win by 4 goals and scored 3 in the first half (on a **** pitch). It is still in our own hands (as Bayern will win for sure against them at home).
Spurs fans can laugh at how poor we were tonight, but aside from the fact we had 10 first-team players injured tonight, 5 of whom were crucial in the 2-0 win against Bayern Munich, we're still going to beat them on Sunday.
We weren't that bad, I think Bayern were immense. They have destroyed plenty of teams already this season. Having said that I think our defensive frailties were shown up ruthlessly tonight.
Which 10 of these would you have replaced with your first team players then? 33 Cech 02 Debuchy 04 Mertesacker 05 Gabriel 18 Monreal 34 Coquelin 19 Cazorla 28 Campbell Booked 11 Özil 17 Sánchez 12 Giroud
Debuchy did okay, but we really missed the pace of Bellerin and Kos. Both of those players would have got a lot tighter to the likes of Costa, Lewandowski, Alaba etc. We weren't awful defensively, but the spaces we left open were ruthlessly exploited. Going forward we did okay, even though Cazorla was fairly anonymous. I know it counts for nothing now, but if we'd had Bellerin, Kos, Walcott, Ramsey available for this game, I think we would have done a lot better.
Was noticeable how Bayern didn't press so high up the pitch compared to the last game. Gave us some space to play in and then exploited the space in behind. Bit naiive from Wenger tonight as well, I think.
Four of those would have been replaced from that starting line up, but the bigger problem is that we had nothing on the bench. Two kids and defenders.
We couldn't counter quickly as well as we sat so deep and without Walcott's outball pace, Bayern suffocated us. Still think we'll qualify. Expecting Bayern to beat Olympiakos and we should be beating Zagreb. Final game in Greece decisive but if we can't score 2 goals vs. them we don't deserve to qualify. Kos and Bellerin should hopefully be back for the NLD so time to build up a head of steam with players returning from injury as well.
If you read my post properly, you'd see I said 5 of the players that were instrumental in our victory against them in the reverse fixture were missing. Not saying we would have won if they were fit, but it clearly had a massive impact on our result tonight.
I don't think that's what he means. I think it more about the players who would have been available in the squad. Bellerin, Kos, Ramsey, Wilshere, Rosicky, Arteta, Oxo, Welbeck. Any one of those players would have made an improvement to the team tonight, and being able to bring players in as subs would have helped too.
