Defender Per Mertesacker hopes Arsenal can produce their own 'miracle' night in Monte Carlo next month after admitting poor defending looks to have left them on the brink of crashing out of the Champions League against Monaco. The Gunners' ambitions of making it through to the quarter-finals of Europe's elite club competition for the first time since 2010 have been all but extinguished following a text-book away performance from the Ligue 1 side, who made Arsenal pay for some poor finishing and a gung-ho rearguard action with a 3-1 victory at the Emirates Stadium. Arsenal had failed to build on a positive start against the unfancied principality side, but were chasing the game following a...
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