After the most unsurprising of results Arsène Wenger left here fully aware that on Tuesday night his team must produce a major surprise if they are to bolster their chances of progressing in the Champions League. Bayern Munich will not tire like Watford, on their last legs after an hour of impressive but futile hassling and harrying, and the Bundesliga champions will, you sense, be far more clinical if the Arsenal defence’s current tendency to allow the opposition an all-too-frequent clear path to goal continues. This victory, sending them back to second place and strengthening their case for the title, was in many ways typical Arsenal. A 12-minute spell of scintillating football...
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