Man City 3. Arsenal 0. Sure, on the face of it this is a bad result, but this match was always going to be a huge struggle. Even before the Gallas furore, we were a massively weakened side with low morale.
The defence were far too weak, but look at who we were starting: they’d probably never even played together and were then expected to hold out against a Man City side with arguably the most attacking flair outside the top four.
Wenger has played down the Gallas stuff, as well he might. I expect we’ll hear more about it in the near future.
For now thoughts turn to Kiev on Tuesday, and a chance to perform away from the glare of the Premiership and cement our place in the next round.
More later.
Tags: Arsenal, Arsene Wenger, man city, William Gallas