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Trossard rescues thrilling draw for Arsenal after Kane strikes again

April 9, 2024

Arsenal and Bayern Munich served up an epic 2-2 UEFA Champions League quarter-final draw at the Emirates as home substitute Leandro Trossard struck late on to earn the Premier League leaders a breathless draw.

Bukayo Saka swerved home a brilliant opener on 12 minutes for the home side before the struggling German champions – who are 16 points behind Bayer Leverkusen in the Bundesliga – hit back strongly as Serge Gnabry punished some poor defending to equalise with an opportunistic finish on 18 minutes.

And Thomas Tuchel’s side moved ahead when England captain Harry Kane coolly converted a penalty on 32 minutes after Leroy Sane was sent spinning to the deck by William Saliba after a brilliant surging run.

Bayern looked in command ahead of the second leg in Munich next Wednesday, but Mikel Arteta’s side rescued a draw on 76 minutes when Trossard accepted an excellent pass from fellow substitute Gabriel Jesus to drive the ball low and hard into the net.

Trossard rescues thrilling draw for Arsenal after Kane strikes again

April 9, 2024

The tie is well in the balance with the winners meeting Real Madrid or holders Manchester City in the last four.

Match Highlights

12′ GOAL! (SAKA) ARSENAL 1-0 BAYERN MUNICH What a dream start to the night for the home side as Saka curls a brilliant finish low into the corner of the net from the Ben White pass inside the visiting area. Boom! Take that. No chance for Neuer.

18′ GOAL! ARSENAL 1-1 BAYERN MUNICH (GNABRY) Lovely finish as Bayern punish some poor home defending for the visitors to level us up at 1-1. Leon Goretzka with the pass and lovely finish from Gnabry racing in on goal. Game on.

30′ GOAL! ARSENAL 1-2 BAYERN MUNICH (KANE) Well, it was written in the stars as Harry Kane steps up to pass the ball low into the corner of the net with Raya diving to his right. That is remarkable. Bayern looked all over the show, but suddenly disbelief around the Emirates. 2-1 to the visitors.

76′ GOAL! (TROSSARD) ARSENAL 2-2 BAYERN MUNICH Well, never a dull moment in the UEFA Champions League. Gabriel Jesus with some blistering play to provide the space and square pass for Trossard to smash the ball low and hard into the Bayern net. And suddenly Arsenal are back in business at 2-2. Phew!

90+1′ ALMOST THE WINNER FOR BAYERN Well, how close is that as the close-range finish from Coman hits an Arsenal post via a foot of Raya. Into five added minutes.

90+5′ LATE DRAMA AS FINAL WHISTLE BLOWS! Neuer races out to meet Saka, who goes to ground. Wild appeals for a penalty, but it looks like Saka ran into the knee of the Bayern keeper. And the final whistle sounds. Looks like that was the right call in the replays. It ends 2-2 after the first leg. What a match.

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Exclusive: Tuchel can ‘feel the electricity’ at Arsenal – ‘They are the benchmark’

April 9, 2024

Thomas Tuchel says he “can feel the electricity” at Arsenal following their meteoric rise under Mikel Arteta, as Bayern Munich prepare to take on the Premier League leaders in the UEFA Champions League.

The German champions travel to Emirates Stadium on Tuesday for the first leg of Bayern and Arsenal’s mouth-watering quarter-final tie, which is live on TNT Sports and discovery+.

Arsenal come into the match on an 11-game unbeaten run domestically – where they have won 10 of those matches – which has shot them to the top of the Premier League table.

Bayern arrive in the English capital in contrasting form. They have lost their last two league matches and slipped 16 points behind Bundesliga leaders Bayer Leverkusen.

Meanwhile, Arteta has guided Arsenal to the last eight of the competition for the first time in 14 years, and Tuchel believes the Gunners are now “the benchmark” in Europe.

“We play against the leaders of the Premier League, the most difficult league in the world, and their numbers in the Champions League are impressive as well,” Tuchel told TNT Sports.

“They are the benchmark in many, many parts of their game. We need to show up and show our best face.”

Tuchel agreed that there were a lot of motivating factors ahead of Tuesday’s blockbuster clash.

“Yes, there are, if you don’t [think that] then you are in completely the wrong place,” he said.

“For all the work Mikel has put into this team and the club has put into this team, you see it, you see the handwriting all over it.

“They produce outstanding numbers, they produce outstanding performances and that’s what you live for. I can feel the tension and the electricity.”

Looking ahead to the game, Tuchel feels they have a “lucky charm” in former Tottenham Hotspur striker Harry Kane, who is “desperate” to score against his old rivals.

Kane comes into the match boasting a fantastic record in front of goal against Arsenal from his time at Spurs, having scored 14 goals in 19 appearances against the Gunners in all competitions.

The Premier League’s second-highest goalscorer of all time did not take long to find his feet overseas either, and in his debut campaign has found the back of the net 38 times in Germany.

“I think he is desperate to score, he’s happy to score,” Tuchel told TNT Sports with a wry smile.

“We are very happy that he’s in our team against the Gunners, he can be our lucky charm because he has scored a lot against them.

“He is, of course, very ambitious to score against them. Harry will always help your team to win and this is what he will try and hopefully succeed.”

The UEFA Champions League is Bayern’s last realistic chance of silverware after a disappointing season.

They were knocked out of the DFB Pokal in the second round to third-tier side Saarbrucken, and are about to concede their 11-year dominance of the Bundesliga title to Leverkusen.

Tuchel is frustrated there is not more on the line for Bayern, but feels they must be realistic about how they have played this season.

“I like to be focused on as many trophies as possible, but that’s the way it is,” he admitted.

“It helps if we face reality. The reality is, we lacked consistency in the Bundesliga, we lacked hunger, we lacked intensity throughout the matches. That’s just the way it is. We have to face it.

“[The UEFA Champions League] is a different competition, we are in the quarter-finalists. This is what we expect, what I expect from myself.

“But now we are here it’s only about showing our top level and showing the best version of yourself, showing character and grit. If you’re playing at Arsenal, you know you’ve reached the highest level.”

Ex-Man City winger Leroy Sane will also come up against a familiar face in Arteta, after playing under him in Manchester as Pep Guardiola’s assistant.

Sane revealed there “are still things in his head” which Arteta told him during his City days, and that he always knew he would become a top coach.

“We had a really strong relationship,” Sane told TNT Sports.

“He helped me a lot when I was a bit younger. We had lots of individual training together. He helped me a lot and generally, you could tell how he has a view for football.

“[Under Pep Guardiola], he learned a lot and got a different view too. At the end, you could tell if he gets it over to his players then they will do a great job, like you see it. He’s doing a great job and I’m really happy for him.”

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‘Confidence is low’ – Honigstein ‘more worried then hopeful’ for Bayern against Arsenal

April 9, 2024

German football expert Raphael Honigstein says he is “more worried then hopeful” about Bayern Munich’s chances of beating Arsenal in the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals.

Bayern are in a poor run of form and could see Bayer Leverkusen win the Bundesliga title this weekend, with the Bavarian giants trailing them in second by 16 points.

It will be the first time Bayern haven’t won the title since 2012.

With the Bundesliga looking a foregone conclusion, the UEFA Champions League is Bayern’s final chance of winning silverware this season.

Honigstein believes Bayern are in a period where they have to “muddle through” until the end of the season, when he believes a squad overhaul may be necessary.

“Bayern, for all the problems in recent years, have always been able to win the Bundesliga,” he told TNT Sports.

“They’ve been able to paper over the cracks with results, domestically, to an extent, but this is different this year, the Champions League is all they’ve got to play for.

“And because results are so poor, [director of sport] Max Eberl has now started talking about making the top four as a new priority for the club, which is not something that you’ve heard from Bayern since, maybe 2011?

“So it is a pretty difficult moment for the whole club, especially with Thomas Tuchel leaving and no new manager having been found yet.

“This Arsenal game comes at either the worst possible time, or at the best, because they’ve got little to lose in a way, and maybe the size of the challenge will lead to one last hurrah. But I’m more worried then hopeful at this point.

“Performances are certainly not up to standard, they’re defensively so weak, there seems to be a real lack of resilience, which again, we already saw last season and maybe the season before.

“And it’s hard to explain, when you have players that are all internationals, who have won the Champions League and have performed really well at different clubs. It’s not easy to understand why it has come to this.

“Of course, the easy thing to say is to point at the manager and say it’s ultimately his fault or his responsibility for a team to play well.

“And I guess that is true, in some sense, but I think there’s a recognition that some of the problems have gone deeper and have to do with the squad composition. Maybe bigger change is necessary after winning so much domestically, maybe people are oversaturated subconsciously, and need a new challenge.

“These are things that will happen, but that will only happen in the summer. And now they have to muddle through with a squad and a manager who don’t seem to fit very well together.”

Bayern travel to north London to face Arsenal in the first leg of their UEFA Champions League quarter-final, live on TNT Sports and discovery+, on Tuesday night.

Honigstein believes that despite Bayern’s defensive frailties this season, they will look to be the team who dominates possession against Mikel Arteta’s in-form side.

“I don’t think we’ll see a negative or defensive formation,” he said. “I think Bayern will have to play the way they know how to play, which is to try and dominate the ball and be proactive.

“They tried that against Manchester City [in last season’s quarter-finals] and they did reasonably well, even though the result was bad. They created chances, and they’re going to try and do the same thing again, and try to survive in this first leg somehow.

“But it’s another reason why I think confidence is low, because a team that is in tune with itself that has the rhythm, that has belief in itself, they can change.

“But now with this Bayern team, you feel every time there’s a switch, or a small adjustment, it just creates more uncertainty.

“I think that’s why Tuchel will, even though his instinct might be to be more defensive, will refrain from making any big changes.

“When Tuchel has tried to change the formation, the 3-4-3 backfired badly against Leverkusen and that was one of the poorest games of the season and really cost them the league effectively.”

Exclusive: Jesus says ‘machine’ White ‘helping a lot’ with Gabriel-Saliba partnership

April 8, 2024

Gabriel Jesus has branded Arsenal team-mate Ben White a “machine” ahead of the Gunners’ UEFA Champions League quarter-final against Bayern Munich.

It is the first time they have reached this stage of the competition since 2009-10, while their opponents lifted their sixth European Cup only four years ago.

The German outfit also arrive in London blessed with the firepower of ex-Spurs striker Harry Kane, accompanied by the likes of Thomas Muller, Serge Gnabry and Jamal Musiala.

However, Arsenal have kept four consecutive clean sheets, while they also have the best defensive record in the Premier League, and Jesus is confident that formidable foursome can be kept quiet by the club’s impressive centre-back pairing of William Saliba and Gabriel.

“They [Saliba and Gabriel] are playing so good,” Jesus exclusively told TNT Sports. “They are having an amazing season and they are working hard.

“They are helping us and also it’s not only them. Ben White; this guy is always available, always fit and helping a lot. He tracks forward and then back. He’s a machine.

“Jakub [Kiwior] was playing at left-back. Normally he’s a centre-back, but he was playing there. [Oleksandr] Zinchenko is back now. [Takehiro] Tomiyasu is back now. Also Jorginho, Declan [Rice] and Thomas [Partey] is back now and they help a lot.

“Obviously Gabby and Saliba are having an amazing season. They deserve it. But also people around them help them a lot.”

Jesus might be able to provide some inside information to his team-mates on one particular Bayern Munich forward.

He played alongside Leroy Sane during their days together at Manchester City, where they won six major honours.

“What a person, what a guy, what a player,” the Brazilian continued. “We had very good moments together. I know of course his quality, he knows mine as well. It’s difficult to stop him.

“All the players they have; Harry Kane, Musiala, Muller, [Kingsley] Coman, Gnabry. They have a lot of quality players. It’s not only Sane, but more players.

“It’s Bayern. I grew up watching them. What a team they had, and they still have. It doesn’t matter the moment for them. It’s still Bayern. The players are still the players. They have a lot of quality.

“It’ll be a huge game, battle, and then obviously we’re going to try and beat them.”

They are therefore chasing the double, which would be a huge success for the Gunners, given they have never lifted the European Cup, while their last Premier League crown came in 2003-04.

But Jesus hopes the drama of their victory in the last round will stand them in good stead as they go in search of silverware.

“It’s an amazing feeling, to arrive at this part of the season with two big chances to win something,” he added. “Everyone knows how the Premier League and the Champions League is.

“It’s really tough to get in this part and this moment fighting for both. We have to be excited, and also happy.

“Both of them [the Premier League and Champions League] are difficult; really difficult.

“Obviously we are in the Champions League still, in the quarter-final you have to play two games – playing first and thinking you have another 90 minutes is really hard.

“After, you have to switch your mind because then you have a Premier League [game] and this is another way to think.

“From now until the end of the season, every game is a final in both competitions, so you have to imagine that at the moment we play nine finals. It’s really tough.

“Normally, when you win on penalties, of course for the heart it’s not good! But you try everything to win, and then when you go to penalties, you want to win, and you train for it, for this moment.

“I think this give us a little bit more confidence, because if the same thing happen again, we are ready, because we had it before.

“I prefer to win a normal game, but we went to penalties. It was a good thing, and obviously now we are confident.”

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Exclusive: ‘I really like his teams’ – Arteta wary of Bayern under ‘innovative’ Tuchel

April 8, 2024

Mikel Arteta, speaking to TNT Sports, says he will not underestimate the challenge awaiting his Arsenal side against “innovative” Thomas Tuchel’s Bayern Munich in the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals.

The German giants are six-time European champions but have struggled domestically this season, with Xabi Alonso’s Bayer Leverkusen on the verge of ending Bayern’s streak of 11 straight Bundesliga titles.

Manager Tuchel is set to depart when the disappointing campaign draws to a close, but the 50-year-old could yet leave on a high if he can add another Champions League crown to the club’s roll of honour.

Tuchel has history in Europe’s elite club competition, having steered Chelsea to glory in 2021, and Arteta is well aware Arsenal will have to be at their best if they are to advance to the last four.

Asked if he was surprised by Bayern’s Bundesliga form, Arteta told TNT Sports: “I don’t know. I only have incredible words for Thomas. Full admiration because every team that I have followed, I got in love with it.

“Super good coach. Very innovative, very creative, a lot of courage. I really like his teams.

“And what he’s done at Bayern, he came last year and already had an impact and they are in the quarter-final of the Champions League.

“He did it with Chelsea, he did it with Dortmund, and it is a team with a lot of experience.”

It is also a team that contains Harry Kane. The England and former Tottenham striker has scored 38 goals for Bayern in all competitions this season and is no stranger to finding the net at the Emirates.

In eight Premier League games at Arsenal’s home ground, Kane notched five goals before heading for pastures new.

“It’s not only in the individual quality that they have, the collective mechanisms, they are a really offensive team,” Arteta added.

“You can see that, you look at the stats and what they generate, so it will put a question mark on us.

“We have worked obviously and we will try to deliver our best possible performance to avoid that happening because we know how important that is.”

Arsenal are fighting on two fronts in the closing stages of what has been an enthralling campaign.

They are locked in a three-way scrap for the Premier League as they bid to end a barren run in that competition that stretches back two decades, while they also have the chance to make the last four of the Champions League for the first time since 2009.

To do that, Arteta has called on the entire fan base to unite behind the team and for his players to believe in themselves and enjoy the occasion.

“We are going to try, that’s what we always try,” Arteta said. “Let’s try and create a unique atmosphere from the beginning.

“The energy, the passion, the positivity that we have to create in every action to believe that we can do it.

“We’ve done it in the past and tomorrow it has to be the best one. I think altogether we can achieve it.”

“Emotionally, we have to control the game. We have to be very clear in the intentions, the game that we have to play. You have to be really aggressive when you have to, you have to be patient in certain moments as well because against some teams they demand you to do that.

“And the most important thing is belief. Have a lot of belief, have courage and visualise that it’s going to happen and I’m going to have a great day and mostly enjoy the moment because this is the type of game that you prepare to play as a player.”

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How to watch Arsenal v Bayern Munich on TNT Sports and discovery+

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Arsenal and Bayern Munich meet again in the UEFA Champions League, seven years after the two sides last played each other on the European stage.

Mikel Arteta’s team ended a 14-year wait for a quarter-final place by beating Porto on penalties after the round-of-16 encounter finished 1-1 on aggregate.

Arsenal have fared better domestically this season, keeping up with Liverpool and Manchester City in the Premier League title race.

But Bayern have struggled under Thomas Tuchel, falling far behind leaders Bayer Leverkusen in the Bundesliga.

A semi-final against either Manchester City or Real Madrid awaits in the semi-finals for the winner.

When is Arsenal v Bayern Munich?

Arsenal host Bayern Munich at the Emirates for the UEFA Champions League quarter-final first leg on Tuesday, April 9.

Kick-off is 20:00 UK time, with live coverage on TNT Sports 1 commencing at 19:00.

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