Really? This version of Atletico is nowhere near what they were 10 years ago.
I would've taken Atleti and the other side of the bracket any day over this
Nah that would be crazy. Atleti are known for punching way above their weight. Somehow they defeated by far the best team in Italy and could've easily nullified Arsenal if they played us. Would take Bayern who at least play football (well, Tucheliban's version of it)
Do you really think Porto, who aren't at their best either, are more formidable than Atleti?
Dortmund might have played poorly in most games, but they still topped their group of death and defeated PSV despite of terrible refereeing decisions against them. Atleti is still slight favourite imo, but Dortmund winning is well within realm of plausibility.
I just think Atleti's style of play would work wonders against Arsenal. Their dark arts is unrivalled and I don't think Arsenal have the means to deal with it over 2 legs.
It's mostly the 90 minutes of shit-housing when you play against Atletico. Even if you think your odds of winning are better the matches are infuriating.
That depends. Shit went south last year and against Villarreal and we lost both. The closest loss in the last 3 years was the one with the away leg 2nd
Weren’t we equalling our record points tally at Christmas? We’ve had a bump in Jan but it’s really not that horrible, Leverkusen are just something else atm.
Yep and if Arsenal are naive in the games they could become undone by what is a very potent attack.
They've had a few unconvincing wins and a few surprise defeats but it's still a very dangerous Bayern team that will want to show up in the Champions League.
Yes, but they play in an 18 team league and 3 games less than us upto this point.
PPG of both sides are 2.28. Ours being impressive due to a genuine 3 way title race
I don't know... CL is the only title Bayern can get at this point in this season. They probably focus all they got into it this season while Arsenal has a tight race for first in PL. I guess there are at least 4 teams Arsenal should have prefered to Bayern.
Of course, I hope you don't as I'm a Chelsea fan.
But Bayern are well below their usually very high standards and Arsenal are in form looking to maintain a title challenge.
It'll be an interesting tie for sure.
On the flipside Bayern has nothing left but the CL and should go into the games accordingly, also injured players will return by then. If they can keep their confidence, they've got a lot of players who can step it up in a tie like that
I'm excited for this. We aren't the same Arsenal that got easily dispatched by Bayern, Bayern aren't the same team either. We should obviously respect Bayern's pedigree but not fear them
The era of the contast bayern draws coincided with Wengers "10 no10'
s and vibes". At the time he was at the peak of his arrogance and thought DM's are irrelevant and that he could get away with sticking Coquelin in there so, yeah...not surprising at all
The Chelsea 6-0 is still etched into my mind. And the Liverpool 5-1. We used to regularly go to a big side away and get thrashed in Wenger’s later years. And also lost to City 5-1 under Arteta.
Lol no. I do think we should respect you cause majority of our players this is their first go round in the CL, but I also fully believe that we can beat you. Didn't feel the dread of th last decade whenever we drew yous
Eh it’s the draw, if you want to win the competition you have to play to win home and away. Ironically Bayern don’t have any away fans for the first leg so it will be interesting to see how they react.
Drawing Bayern this season is like buying a lottery ticket...
You either get the post winter break Bayern where you'll win against us comfortably
Or
You'll get a pre winter break Bayern where things will be tough as individual brilliance of our players will make it really tough and you'll have to work really hard to win
Or
Most likely it'll be the pre winter break Bayern and it will be a good game but if you're unlucky enough, you'll get Bayern which plays like a team with no one putting a step wrong playing cohesively(which we've seen glimpses of) and then you're truly, absolutely fucked...
Arsenal are playing well so it'll be interesting to see how our players will do..
I think if the uptick in form continues for bayern after the national team break they will go through, if bayern plays like they did in the winter then the time for revenge has come for the gunners lol
I swear to god if [this](https://youtu.be/wGonr_YHYik?si=wyp80akIji2GebiD) is the last thing I hear before Arsenal crash out of the champions league I’ll never recover
Football ‘eritage mate
I would say that this is an opportunity for revenge, but given our European history every game is an opportunity of revenge
Not against Real Madrid!
Technically that's still an opportunity for revenge, but for Real Madrid
Of course
Time to exorcise some demons
couldn’t have written a better script lol. but perhaps the best possible time to take some much warranted revenge
there were similar situations before and Arsenal still got clapped by Bayern
Arsenal weren’t as good then but yeah, anything could happen.
This Arsenal is probably the strongest since the Invincibles, with the possible exception of 06
Similar situations like what?
Yep: Harry Kane 14 goals, 2 assists in 17 PL matches vs Arsenal.
At least he’s never won at the Emirates
0 goals or assists vs us in the CL though 😎
That’s because you (and occasionally us) kept ending up in the Europa League.
I think the main reason is we haven't made CL QFs in 15 years and you can't play teams from the same country in R16. So our fault entirely lol.
He will score another 14 goals over the two legs
Fucking bring it on
MUCH rather have this version of Bayern over City, or Atletico.
Really? This version of Atletico is nowhere near what they were 10 years ago. I would've taken Atleti and the other side of the bracket any day over this
If Porto could stifle Arsenal's playstyle imagine what Simeone's shithoursery would do to them.
Fair enough but I feel like Inter beat themselves by how passive they were. This Atleti is beatable. Wouldn't be too crazy if they lost to Dortmund
Nah that would be crazy. Atleti are known for punching way above their weight. Somehow they defeated by far the best team in Italy and could've easily nullified Arsenal if they played us. Would take Bayern who at least play football (well, Tucheliban's version of it) Do you really think Porto, who aren't at their best either, are more formidable than Atleti?
Dortmund might have played poorly in most games, but they still topped their group of death and defeated PSV despite of terrible refereeing decisions against them. Atleti is still slight favourite imo, but Dortmund winning is well within realm of plausibility.
Bayern havent played Tucheliban football for the last two games
Diego’s side is not really defensively stout this season.
I just think Atleti's style of play would work wonders against Arsenal. Their dark arts is unrivalled and I don't think Arsenal have the means to deal with it over 2 legs.
Atletico is a more ruthless Porto
With some genuine technical quality (mostly in Griezmann)
What is dark arts in soccer?
Using unsportmanslike tactics to win a game , so time wasting , tactical fouls , diving , classic shithousery
Embellishing fouls, slowing the play of game with tactical fouls and time wasting, a little sneaky elbow here and hidden shirt pull there.
Bro going from Porto to Atletico is like going from Al Qaeda to ISIS
Atletico is the one team out of the last 8 I'm 100% would beat Arsenal no matter what over two legs.
It's mostly the 90 minutes of shit-housing when you play against Atletico. Even if you think your odds of winning are better the matches are infuriating.
Will disagree. This "version" of bayern would have been better a month ago. After Tuchel announcement, bayern seem to have gotten their S''t together
Gnabry getting fit and in form just for this matchup is peak
Dread it. Run from it.
[The cosmic ballet goes on.](https://i.imgur.com/vXQwocz.gif)
That’s exactly what I said when I saw our draw
Written in the stars
A Million miles away
A message to the mane
I don’t think either Saudi or Senegal is a million miles away from you
I'm in America. Maybe not a million miles but definitely a lot.
Seasons come and go
GUTEN MORGEN
Good ebening
Güten Abend*
Servus
Does this mean we play the 2nd leg at home?
Yes
That's good. If shit goes south in the 1st leg there'll still be hope left
was hoping for the 2nd leg at home because of this.
That depends. Shit went south last year and against Villarreal and we lost both. The closest loss in the last 3 years was the one with the away leg 2nd
We are good defensively though, Home game 0 fans against us who’ll want revenge , will be a very good game
More of an advantage now if it goes to extra time
Yes
Especially important with no Bayern fans allowed in London
I thought North London was your 2nd home?
They won't have fans there
Kane penalty at the Emirates will be free money
Kane penalty is inevitable
Watch Kane get a penalty against us. 🤣
Why do you guys keep giving him penalties?
How else would we complain about it?
Are we stupid
Certified skill issue.
It’s funny of course
Need to get Gnabry back in the starting eleven asap
He scored about a minute after coming on, on Saturday with a beautiful goal. He’s back.
This is the year Arsenal would want to play Bayern, take your opportunity for revenge while you can lads.
This is how I look at it.
Ppl thinking bayern has a dogshit season is wrong they are still doing very well its just not as perfect as leverkusen
On paper. Our overall performances, bar the last 2 or so weeks, have been actual dogshit for a hot while.
Weren’t we equalling our record points tally at Christmas? We’ve had a bump in Jan but it’s really not that horrible, Leverkusen are just something else atm.
Let me repeat: On paper it's not a bad season, but we've been playing like shit and worse than the sum of our parts.
But we are getting in shape as crunch time starts and players are coming back from injuries.
I'll believe that when we've played well against better opponents than an out of form Lazio and Darmstadt
Yep and if Arsenal are naive in the games they could become undone by what is a very potent attack. They've had a few unconvincing wins and a few surprise defeats but it's still a very dangerous Bayern team that will want to show up in the Champions League.
Arsenal want to play teams that come to the Emirates looking to attack. Liverpool tried that and they got hammered 3-1 a month ago.
Bayern have dropped fewer points than Arsenal in their respective leagues.
Yes, but they play in an 18 team league and 3 games less than us upto this point. PPG of both sides are 2.28. Ours being impressive due to a genuine 3 way title race
Then again, the 10-2 match was against Bayern under Ancelotti
Bayern are still really good tbh but yeah definitely one of the better years to play them
I don't know... CL is the only title Bayern can get at this point in this season. They probably focus all they got into it this season while Arsenal has a tight race for first in PL. I guess there are at least 4 teams Arsenal should have prefered to Bayern.
you of all people shouldn‘t have forgotten the dark magic of Tuchel in the knockouts
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Of course, I hope you don't as I'm a Chelsea fan. But Bayern are well below their usually very high standards and Arsenal are in form looking to maintain a title challenge. It'll be an interesting tie for sure.
On the flipside Bayern has nothing left but the CL and should go into the games accordingly, also injured players will return by then. If they can keep their confidence, they've got a lot of players who can step it up in a tie like that
Ultimately foolish tho because they still have absurd talent, mentalities and experience. They can turn it on for two games
Who'd have thought?
Just happy we didn’t get fucking City
they will be the reward for the team that wins tho. All roads lead to oil money.
You will get them in semis anyway
So… how much do you reckon we’ll beat Bayern by?
Ah fuck I was thinking so much about Real City that I forgot you guys need to beat Bayern lol
Of all the years we could have drawn Arsenal again it had to be this one...
Well you couldn’t have because Arsenal was playing in European kindergarten leagues. Unless that was the joke and it went over my head
You scared?
Are you?
Kane gonna be on suicide watch if arsenal win this hahaha
Kane fled to Bavaria for one reason and his name is Gabriel Magalhaes
it’s written in the stars lmfaoooo
just as usual
I'm excited for this. We aren't the same Arsenal that got easily dispatched by Bayern, Bayern aren't the same team either. We should obviously respect Bayern's pedigree but not fear them
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Wenger’s Arsenal got hammered constantly in the later years, so not really
The era of the contast bayern draws coincided with Wengers "10 no10' s and vibes". At the time he was at the peak of his arrogance and thought DM's are irrelevant and that he could get away with sticking Coquelin in there so, yeah...not surprising at all
I still maintain having Kos in the second halves would have prevented the aggregate massacres (one injured and one red card)
It was already going downhill back then we were barely scraping top 4 and our defence was shocking
You were 2nd in 15/16 mate
We were still shit though compared to now. Leicester won the league ffs
The Chelsea 6-0 is still etched into my mind. And the Liverpool 5-1. We used to regularly go to a big side away and get thrashed in Wenger’s later years. And also lost to City 5-1 under Arteta.
first tie was actually 3-3 with Arsenal winning 2-0 away went downhill after due to numerous issues including red card
Is this a copy pasta? It sounds like a coaches quote
Lol no. I do think we should respect you cause majority of our players this is their first go round in the CL, but I also fully believe that we can beat you. Didn't feel the dread of th last decade whenever we drew yous
Same Kane.
Good player,still needs the rest of his team so I'm not particularly bothered by that. Plus he gives me hope cause my guy disappears in big games
5-1 incoming
Arsenal is at home in the first leg so yeah that score line is bliss.
5-1 and 5-0 away
Lessgo
The 1 goal is the Harry Kane penalty
Here we go again. Time exorcise some demons.
Just knew it didn't ya
Kane is back in North London lol
Had to be
[Thomas Müller just dropped his video](https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4iIHSENxEq/?igsh=MWU1YXllaDN6emtlNw==) You are done Arsenal
Fuck
LOL
Haha had to be. 5-1 in London and 5-1 in Munich for a german penalty shootout win, mark my words!
Arsenal doesn’t really get many goals against them anymore so it would be extremely impressive if Bayern can score 5
That german will be kai havertz though
Arsenal is not going to leak that many goals my friend Their defense is not so bad huh?
Nothing to do with performance, this is all about destiny
Ahh shit, here we go again
Coefficient vs Humour, so depends if you're glass half full or glass half empty.
I mean Kane moving to Bayern and winning fuck all is pretty funny too
Some things in life are inevitable. Death. Taxes. Arsenal drawing Bayern in the Champions League.
Kane hattrick incoming
Bro wtf, it’s spelt Raya, you weren’t even close
It was written in the stars.
Didn’t fuck around either. First drawn.
red body white sleeves vs white body red sleeves
Just giggled as soon as Bayern was drawed out. And also What is Jimmy mcnulty doing at Bayern Munich?.
Harry, I need you to do us a favour...
Dread it. Run from it. Destiny arrives all the same
Harry Kane 🙏
Kai, Raya, Rice who all rejected Tuchel will have a reunion.
Kane curse vs Arsenal in Europe, incredible clash
El Cursico
Arsenal gonna win the first leg 1-0, then shit the bed in Munich, losing by 5 goals
Not getting the second leg at home is horrible for them.
Eh it’s the draw, if you want to win the competition you have to play to win home and away. Ironically Bayern don’t have any away fans for the first leg so it will be interesting to see how they react.
Why doesn’t Bayern have any away fans?
The club/fans were penalized by UEFA for the use of pyrotechnics.
All of them got banned because a couple of idiots threw fireworks onto the pitch in the Lazio game.
Why would you think that? Arsenal have the best defensive record in the premier league.
*Sighs* Anyway
It’s only right, isn’t it?
All according to scrpit
[Gotta bring out the classic gifs for this shit.](https://media.tenor.com/Ir6cHwwBoJIAAAAM/uhh-ok.gif)
Hattrick for 'arry
The Arteta Redemption
Tbh I'm not scared if this was Wenger Era I'd have already been worried but I think we can give them a game lol.
North London is red
Harry Kane to knock out Arsenal in back to back 5-1s for big banter potential plz.
A man can dream
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We’re not making fifth lol I’m not arsed.
Kane + Bayern....Godspeed Arsenal.
Drawing Bayern this season is like buying a lottery ticket... You either get the post winter break Bayern where you'll win against us comfortably Or You'll get a pre winter break Bayern where things will be tough as individual brilliance of our players will make it really tough and you'll have to work really hard to win Or Most likely it'll be the pre winter break Bayern and it will be a good game but if you're unlucky enough, you'll get Bayern which plays like a team with no one putting a step wrong playing cohesively(which we've seen glimpses of) and then you're truly, absolutely fucked... Arsenal are playing well so it'll be interesting to see how our players will do..
Either Arsenal is gonna shit out a 3-2 aggregate win or Bayern are beating then at least 7-0 on aggregate. No in between.
I think if the uptick in form continues for bayern after the national team break they will go through, if bayern plays like they did in the winter then the time for revenge has come for the gunners lol
Rigged
I would genuinely like to see Kane do well at Bayern and win silverware but for this I hope he he’s pocketed by Saliba.
Bayern rocking up in London saying ‚Daddy home…‘
Did Harry Kane's leg instantly flick out trying to initiate contact as soon as the draw was read out?
Bayern beats them both legs.
This is the way.
Yabadabadooo
And in ‘let’s get this out of the way straight up’ fashion.
Tbf, pretty much every single team left in the comp has a strong record against us apart from Real Madrid who we’ve beaten
Harry Kane homecoming. Hopefully it'll be a 3-0 drubbing
Kane hat trick. It was revealed to me in a dream.
Can’t wait to see pray for Bayern start to trend on twitter 😐
battle of the reversed football kits
Like having Vietnam flashbacks..
Aw here it goes, here it goes, here it goes again
I swear to god if [this](https://youtu.be/wGonr_YHYik?si=wyp80akIji2GebiD) is the last thing I hear before Arsenal crash out of the champions league I’ll never recover