Gunners’ groundhog day

Arsenal 0 Bayern Munich 2

Exactly 12 months after suffering a 3-1 home defeat to Bayern Munich, they once again trail the German champions by two goals and need to produce an extraordinary performance in the Allianz Arena if they are to progress into the Champions League last eight.

Yet while the symmetry of the occasion was painful for the Gunners with Thomas Mueller and Toni Kroos again on target for Bayern, on this occasion they also suffered the additional punishment of losing Wojciech Szcesny to a red card after 38 minutes. There was a nagging feeling the outcome could have been so different this time though, had Mesut Ozil not missed an eighth minute penalty and they had managed to remain fully manned.