Reports from Germany have provided the Gooners with some disappointing news, stating that Bayern Munich’s custodian, Manuel Neuer, should be fit for the Champions League quarterfinals against Arsenal.
The Mirror reports that the veteran German goalkeeper should be fit and ready to go for the German giants’ April 9th visit to the Emirates Stadium.
Would I be wrong to suggest that Bayern Munich is our Gunners’ toughest Champions League opponent since their long-awaited return to the top European competition?
Anyway, Bayern will love it if several of Arsenal’s key players are absent when they face them. Our Gunners will also enjoy Bayern missing some of their key players.
Unlike Arsenal, the Bundesliga team hasn’t been flying high this season, but they have a solid squad and enough experience to deny Arteta and the boys the chance to play in the UCL semifinals.
When Neuer withdrew from the German National Team training during the March international break due to injury, most Gooners breathed a sigh of relief.
Neuer is an asset to the Thomas Tuchel-led side. Aside from his excellent shot-stopping abilities, he is an expert at playing with the ball at his feet (he popularised the style).
Whether Neuer plays or not and ifBayern fields a stronger or weaker squad, Arsenal just needs to win the game with their strengths. To defeat Bayern and send a message to the rest of Europe, the Gunners must simply bring their A-game and perform as they have in key games, like wins over Liverpool, City, and even FC Porto.
COYG!
Darren N
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The idea of seeing losses of key players or some other weaknesses in opponents as exciting for our progress doesn’t feel right. This is Champion’s League and we ought to conduct ourselves as such and win against our opponents’ strongest sides ………. you don’t want to be Champions and you feel like you’d like to apologies for being undeservingly so after getting through toss of dice.
Our players and team must man up for this and make us seriously proud of them
Manuel has been the best Goalkeeper down the years, maybe he is still. But we aren’t playing against him alone, we’re playing XI Munich players.
Let’s give it our best short, were at our best at the moment and Bayern is well, Bayern. We can do it
COYG
I dont think it is bad news for us, he is not the same as he was earlier in the peak of his form. Also, he is out for long times this season and hence the continuity is not there.
Bayermunich is bigger club in europe and manuel is a better shots stoper but my fear is that guners have just start using thier biggest guns and belief in the magnative hand of david rayas that can save any shots from any club
As much as I wouldn’t mind Arsenal facing a ‘weakened’ opponent,it would be far more thrilling to beat them at their strongest and I believe this current Arsenal side has what it takes to beat Bayern. If we are to win the competition,we simply have to be prepared to face the very best.