36 min: Chance! Published: 16:35 EDT, 15 February 2017 | Updated: 04:36 EDT, 16 February 2017. Or at least appears to catch him late - replays suggest Martinez defender made a meal of the challenge. The ball doesn’t break kindly for an Arsenal forward and Bayern get away with what could have been a costly error. I don’t just mean in terms of the score line, Arsenal have had some great scoring matches since then, I mean in terms of every stat. Would Arsenal have held on? Arjen Robben’s superb curling shot gave Bayern the lead on 11 minutes, but Sanchez levelled by drilling home Manuel Neuer’s save from a penalty on 30 minutes. Bayern Munich 5-1 Arsenal: Arjen Robben Robben opened the scoring for Bayern Munich with an exquisite first-half strike, which was cancelled out by Alexis Sanchez in a first half that Arsenal … 149. It wasn’t substitute Gabriel’s fault. 30 min: Alexis Sanchez scores ... eventually. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. Arsenal players look a collective beaten docket. Wenger wasn’t happy. 80 min: Robben and Philipp Lahm wreak a little more havoc. He does splendidly to hook the ball back into the mixer, where Robert Lewandowski misses a fairly straightforward chance with his head. But, really, are we going to do this? Real Madrid 3-1 Napoli: It’s far from the end of the world for Napoli, who’ll be happy enough going back to Italy with a 3-1 deficit. Here are all the highlights from the match. This is what Arsenal are reduced to now – a rehab facility for seriously out-of-form strikers who need to rebuild their confidence. 51 min: Bayern advance with Philipp Lahm on the ball and heading towards the penalty area. Arsenal have it all to do in the Champions League after losing 5-1 in Munich on Wednesday evening. 15 Feb 2017. That away goal could be priceless. Bayern Munich beat Arsenal 5-1 at the Allianz Arena on Wednesday, Feb. 15. Arsene Wenger chose to leave his usual No 1 Petr Cech on the bench, again calling on David Ospina in the cup competitions, Bayern winger Robben tries to dart his way around the standing challenge of Granit Xhaka in the early stages, Francis Coquelin could only watch as Robben fired into the top-left corner having cut in from Bayern's right-hand side, Mats Hummels led the congratulations for Robben after he had put the German champions ahead in the 11th minute, Arsenal's German defender Mustafi fouls Thiago as the Gunners found themselves on the back-foot from early on, Arsenal won a penalty when Lewandowski kicked the boot of Laurent Koscielny inside his own area on 30 minutes, Referee Milorad Mazic is surrounded by Bayern players looking to appeal his decision to give Arsenal the penalty, 200 - Arsenal became the first English side to concede 200 goals in the Champions LeagueÂ. Bayern Munich 5-1 Arsenal: Arjen Robben Robben opened the scoring for Bayern Munich with an exquisite first-half strike, which was cancelled out by Alexis Sanchez in a first half that Arsenal were dominating towards the end. Within 20 minutes they were out of the tie. He had five defenders around him when he hooked his side into the most slender of leads in this tie. Bayern Munich 5 Arsenal 1| Please, Please Arsene Just GO!!! 44 min: Mats Hummels skims a header wide after a free-kick from deep is lofted towards the far post. THIAGO! At the third time of asking, under pressure from a defender with the ball bouncing away from the goal, he swivels on one foot and smashes diagonal volley into the bottom left-hand corner. 58 min: Thiago Alcantara has been outstanding tonight and deserves that goal. Kieran Gibbs takes the armband. He just happened to be present when the weakness in this side came to the fore again. 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Wed Feb 15 - 19:45. He finished with ease into the corner, giving Ospina little or no chance. It was a simple missed kick. FC Bayern München 5, Arsenal 1. Allianz Arena. Arsenal 1-5 Bayern Munich (agg 2-10): Champions League last 16, second leg – as it happened Arsenal gave an unlikely comeback their best shot for 53 minutes - … Thomas Müller (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner. Munich hit the bar after a scramble, Ospina tipped one from Robben around a post, a Douglas Costa shot deflected just wide. After 38 minutes the stats say 7 shots for Bayern and 5 for Arsenal. We mentally collapsed.”, Asked if the loss of Koscielny is a good enough excuse, he adds: “Bayern is a better team than us. Bayern has won UEFA Champions League five times. Bayern Munich beat them 5-1 here in the Champions League group stage in November 2015. For those who enjoy clutching at straws, there was the moan that one of Munich’s goals came from a home goal-kick that started off as an Arsenal corner before the referee changed his mind. He twanged that while chasing a through ball. Assisted by Thiago Alcántara. He touched the ball around the corner with his heel, picking out a little run into space in the penalty area by Thiago. He gives the ball to The Ox who crosses it to the edge of the penalty area where Xhaka releases a fierce shot but straight at Neuer. Bayern Munich humbled Arsenal in the first leg of the Champions League knockout clash at the Allianz Arena as goals from Arjen Robben, Robert Lewandowski, a brace by Thiago and Thomas Muller sealed a 5-1 … Thiago then broke through for Bayern after a Lewandowski backheel, placing his finish beyond Arsenal keeper Ospina, Spanish playmaker Thiago wheels away to celebrate his goal with the Arsenal defence vanquished behind him, The former Barcelona man's second goal of the game came as he shot at goal and saw the effort deflected in off Xhaka. Peep! Thiago finishes just inside the left upright after getting on the end of a deft touch from Lewandowski. They’ll make all the right noises about trying to put things right in the second leg (they always do), but this team has no heart or backbone. They can’t be happy for this to continue indefinitely. At the end of this season, Wenger and his employers have a decision to make. Goal: Robben 11, Lewandowski 53, Thiago 56, 63, Muller 88. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. It was a gutless display, but that won’t come as any great shock to seasoned Arsenal-watchers. Sanchez put his shot down the middle, a fraction to the left, where it was saved by Manuel Neuer. Bayern Munich’s fifth goal was the killer, meaning Arsenal need to win the return leg 4-0. His first duty is to help defend a corner., from which David Ospina ends up getting a bang on the jaw as he dives at the feet of Lewandowski. Arsenal. 33 min: Alexis Sanchez gets booked for a foul on Javi Martinez after catching him late as the Bayern defender hacked a ball clear. Over the bar and a real let-off for Arsenal. Bayern Munich have almost secured a passage to the next round after beating Arsenal 5-1 in the first leg of the Champions League Round of 16 tie on Wednesday.. It’s the same pattern recurring again – Arsenal collapsed just when they needed to toughen up. Thomas Muller came off the bench to add a fifth for good measure and leave Gooners seething. They huff and puff, but Alexis Sanchez runs the ball out of play under pressure when Hector Bellerin was in a good position to receive a cross if the Chilean had seen him. His volley is sweet, but straight at Neuer, who finally manages to hold on to the ball. We need to recover and focus on our next game.”. Bayern Munich - Wed Feb 15 - 19:45. Peeeeeeeep! He takes the penalty and Neuer saves. Ospina saves brilliantly. WhatsApp. A gutless second half performance all but guaranteed Arsenal’s now traditional elimination at the first knockout stage, Wed 15 Feb 2017 17.10 EST The big man heads Bayern into the lead after getting on the end of a Philipp Lahm cross from the right. Arsenal’s Champions League hopes hang by a thread after a 5-1 battering at the hands of Pep Guardiola’s Bayern Munich. 45 min: Mesut Ozil shoots straight at Manuel Neuer from close range after being presented with a glorious scoring opportunity. Bayern beat Arsenal 5-1 in the first leg of the series in Munich. Bayern Munich 5-1 Arsenal: Thiago hits a double and Arjen Robben, Robert Lewandowski and Thomas Muller grab goals as Arsene Wenger's team collapse. “I think we were unlucky on the second goal - the referee gives a corner for us, the ball is on the pitch and we concede the second goal. 90+3 min: The camera cuts to Arsene Wenger on the Arsenal bench and he doesn’t look best pleased. 84 min: Bayern Munich substitutions: Joshua Kimmich on for Douglas Costa. 61 min: Granit Xhaka gets booked for a crude challenge on Xabi Alonso. Some analysis: After a poor start, when it looked like they might be over-run, Arsenal have grown into this game. Robert Lewandowski, who bullied Mustafi all night, headed Bayern back into the lead and then the outstanding Thiago Alcantara added two more. Unused subs: Cech, Monreal, Elneny, Welbeck. Out it came, straight to Sanchez, who swung and missed at the rebound. NEWS & VIDEO By Rob Kelly at Allianz Arena. Arjen Robben’s superb curling shot gave Bayern the lead on 11 minutes, but Sanchez levelled by drilling home Manuel Neuer’s save from a penalty on 30 minutes. 65 min: Prior to that goal, Bayern missed another couple of decent chances and had a penalty appeal turned down. It was a lovely cross from Philipp Lahm and Lewandowski successfully targeted the corner of goal with his header. Lahm it was who lofted in the cross and drifting away from the penalty spot, Lewandowski rose higher than Mustafi and headed across the face of goal and inside the right post. Bayern Munich destroyed Arsenal 5-1 again as Lewandowski, Robben, Douglas Costa and Vidal all scored goals to kill off Arsenal. Our chief football correspondent Daniel Taylor was at the Allianz Arena and typed his fingers to the bone to bring you this on-the-whistle match report. Arsenal won the match 2–0 with goals from Olivier Giroud and Mesut Özil. A corner drops to him on the edge of the penalty area and he drives the ball goalwards. Even so, scored against the balance of play, Arsenal’s equaliser was the embodiment of perseverance and the old adage that if at first you don’t succeed, try and try again — Alexis Sanchez’s penalty going in at the third time of asking. Might it be the last time under Wenger, though? 2017 Fußball Arena München - Munich. ReddIt. It can hardly have come as a surprise, either, having happened for seven straight seasons now. It was carnage. Events in the 88th minute, however, dampened the enthusiasm of even the most optimistic travellers. Thomas Müller (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Arsenal out of the Champions League day. 83 min: Finally, some good news for Arsenal: Philipp Lahm is booked for a foul on Oxlade-Chamberlain and will now miss the second leg. Ponderous defenders caught in possession, a frantic scramble, Thiago to Thomas Muller, just on as a substitute. Robert Lewandowski scented blood like a shark, Bayern’s forwards descended on Arsenal like a school of peckish piranhas. To be fair, Ospina probably couldn’t even have reached this one standing on Cech’s shoulders. It’s all square at the Allianz Arena: Arjen Robben fired Bayern ahead with a fine curled effort after being given the freedom of Munich to set himself up for a shot, but it’s advantage Arsenal after Alexi Sanchez who missed from the spot but eventually scored with his second follow-up effort. Same again for the fourth, another shot from Thiago, this time through a mess of players, the ball clipping Granit Xhaka and sending Ospina the wrong way. The comments below have not been moderated. Within 14 minutes it was 4-1 to Bayern, another collapse of a type Arsenal fans know only too well. 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Özil wins the ball and starts an Arsenal attack with Alexis. On 4 November, Bayern defeated Arsenal 5–1. I felt the third goal was a killer for our players because after that we had no response. Maybe, after this. He should have scored. Bayern Arsenal Δ Avg. Wenger’s big call was Ospina and while the goalkeeper was not the reason his team went down by five, he hardly did him too many favours with the second that swung the game in Munich’s direction. Nothing comes of either. He’s replaced by Gabriel Paulista. I think the most important thing in the second half is we lost Koscielny very early and it looked like we collapsed. Bayern faced Arsenal on 20 October. Shkodran Mustafi was equally culpable — so, too, what passes for Arsenal’s midfield protection. Robben has a shot tipped behind for a corner, before the pair combine again down the right to win another one. This was Bayern's first loss of the season in all competitions. Well, as good as. 63 min: Arsenal are in all sorts of disarray here and Thiago takes advantage. A brilliant goal from Bayern Munich, who lead by two goals. Thomas Mueller scored two goals as Bayern Munich hammered Arsenal 5-1 on Wednesday to close in on a place in the knockout stage of the Champions League. 5 1. They haven’t in the past and, anyway, no team with elite ambitions should be vulnerable to one stroke of bad luck. Thomas Muller on for Robert Lewandowski. The Italians opened the scoring, but their hosts have equalised. Something is wrong. Real Madrid put them back in their box with goals from Karim Benzema, Toni Kroos and Casemiro. 29 min: A Robert Lewandowski shove on Laurent Koscielny in the Bayern penalty area results in a spot-kick for Arsenal. Having had Bayern in all sorts of bother at the end of a first half, they were torn apart in the second half. 48 min: Laurent Kocielny also looks to be in trouble and is holding his hamstring. All rights reserved. Now Munich were in charge and the third of the night was a quite beautiful move. 25 min: In tonight’s other match, it’s currently Real Madrid 1-1 Napoli. 28 min: Ozil takes the free-kick, curls it around the wall and into the arms of Neuer, who spills the ball. Enjoy ... “It’s difficult to explain,” he says to BT Sport’s Des Kelly, when asked to explain where it all went wrong. What a difference the absence of Koscielny has made. Before the move that led to the goal, the referee had awarded Arsenal a corner before (correctly) changing his mind on the advice of a goal-line official. Bayern Munich's forward Thomas Mueller (L) celebrates scoring the 5-1 goal with his teammates during the UEFA Champions League round of sixteen football match against Arsenal February 15, 2017 Assisted by Douglas Costa following a fast break. This dominance made their second half collapse all the more spectacular, as Bayern ran amok after the departure through injury of Laurent Koscielny. 46 min: Arsenal begin the second half as they ended the first: on the front foot. The result matched the 5-1 group-stage thrashing Arsenal received in Munich in November 2015 — the club’s joint record away defeat in Europe. MUNICH, Germany -- Three thoughts from the Allianz Arena as a flurry of goals early in the second half gave Bayern Munich an emphatic 5-1 victory over Arsenal in … If he does, he’ll be mistaken on a number of levels, one of them being that the decision in question was correct. It was another of those lessons learned. Bayern Munich 5-1 Arsenal – player ratings. It wasn’t even a new scoreline. The closest analogy I can make, in terms of stats, is that Bayern beat Arsenal 5-1 in this match in the same manner that Arsenal beat West Ham 5-1 at home in the League in January of 2013. Who knows how it would have panned out had Koscielny not pulled a hamstring and limped off soon after the restart. 82 min: Costa tries to curl one in at the back post after great work by Thiago. Just don’t ask him to repeat it. Arsenal pretty much fell apart. Your support powers our independent journalism, Available for everyone, funded by readers. He couldn’t have been afforded a more hospitable welcome. 2016/17, Round of 16, 1st leg. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain is left puffing his cheeks out in frustration after spotting another dangerous run, but failing to play his team-mate in. 38 min: It may have taken him three bites of the kartoffelkloesse but Alexis Sanchez’s finish for that equaliser was outstanding. Munich’s first goal came after 11 minutes and what a thing of beauty it was after a period of intense pressure that ended with Arjen Robben cutting in from the right wing. Peep! 74 min: Bayern continue to put the hurt on Arsenal and their fans appeal for a penalty after a Mustafi challenge on Lewandowski in the penalty area. Since 2010-11, Arsenal have exited this competition every year at the first knockout stage and while this tie is not technically over, it is going to take a Herculean, Tom Brady-style comeback for Arsene Wenger’s men to progress now. He was a controversial selection ahead of Petr Cech. Ospina also had to make a brilliant save from point-blank range when Thiago sent a header his way from about five yards. Apps of the “Back 5” 239.2 128.8 110.4 Avg. Mesut Ozil had a chance to put Arsenal ahead as he broke through down the left side of the area but his shot was stopped, Koscielny had to be withdrawn after suffering a hamstring injury that led to substitute Gabriel replacing him, Arsenal were promptly punished as Lewandowski climbed highest at the back post to head Philipp Lahm's cross in, Lewandowski raises his hands to his ears in celebration after giving Bayern the lead having missed a host of earlier chances. Bayern-Arsenal UEFA Champions League 2016/17 . 46 min: Both sets of players come out and take up position and eventually the match officials deign to join them. 88 min: Oh dear. First published on Wed 15 Feb 2017 13.42 EST. By Nik Brumsack at Allianz Arena. Facebook. 26 min: Mats Hummels is penalised and booked for fouling Alexis Sanchez on the edge of the Bayern penalty area. He sat off and sat off, until Robben had sight of goal and that sweet left foot did the rest. Arjen Robben subsequently fired wide from a tight angle and screamed for a penalty as the ball went out for a corner off the hand of Gibbs. Bayern Munich (4-2-3-1): Neuer 7; Lahm 8.5, Hummels 7.5, Martinez 7, Alaba 7; Alonso 8, Vidal 7.5; Robben 8.5 (Rafinha 88mins), Thiago 9, Costa 7 (Kimmich 84); Lewandowski 8.5 (Muller 86). Free-kick for Arsenal, inches outside the area, almost in line with the right side of the box. Arsenal substitute I haven’t had a chance to mention before this: Theo Walcott on for Alex Iwobi. It was a wonderful team effort: from deep in midfield, Alonso played a low pass towards Lewandowski on the edge of the penalty area with his back to goal. Arsenal crashed out of the Champions League at the last-16 stage for a seventh consecutive season after another 5-1 thrashing at the hands of Bayern Munich at the Emirates Stadium. He then took the ball away from goal with his chest and his finish from there was perfect — a shot on the spin into the far corner. Bayern Munich kick off and there are no changes of personnel on either team. Chamberlain gets caught in possession by Kimmich, who plays the ball across the edge of the Arsenal penalty area. Twitter. MUNICH (AP) — Bayern Munich answered its critics with a comprehensive 5-1 rout of Arsenal in the first leg of their Champions League clash to move a … You can probably fill in the rest from there, we have all seen it so many times — although apparently Francis Coquelin hadn’t. The result matched the 5-1 group-stage thrashing Arsenal received in Munich in November 2015 — the club’s joint record away defeat in Europe. 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Ospina, however, did look rather flat-footed and appeared to slip at a vital moment, too. Shrove Tuesday. For 45 minutes there was some vague hope. February festival days. If the Germans get so much as one on the break, Arsenal will need six to progress in normal time. SUMMARY. You can follow that one by clicking on this link. The ball flew into the top corner past David Ospina. They have so much experience, so much quality — they shouldn’t just be swept aside like this. How I feel isn’t important, but of course it is disappointing. Bayern 5-1 Arsenal-Match report. MUNICH (AP) — Bayern Munich answered its critics with a comprehensive 5-1 rout of Arsenal in the first leg of their Champions League clash to put one foot in … The ball’s half cleared and subsequently curled towards the byline, where Arturo Vidal has got in behind the Arsenal defence. Arturo Vidal, who had made a run from deep and was looking good to blast a header goalwards from three or four yards, almost certainly would have scored if Hummels hadn’t got in his way. From there, a sprinkling of magic dust saw Arsenal through. Then Laurent Koscielny went off, Arsenal – almost to a man – collapsed and we shipped another four goals to lose by the same scoreline as we did in 2015, 5-1. Bayern extended their Champions League record to 16 straight home wins by flooring the Gunners with three goals in ten second-half minutes.