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Arsenal’s Per Mertesacker: ‘We can consign first-leg disaster to history’
Per Mertesacker made the stark admission that Arsenal had effectively bottled the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie with Monaco. The 3-1 defeat at the Emirates Stadium has left the London club with what Arsène Wenger has described as a “mountain to climb” to remain in the competition, and it is one that is rather steeper than the incline up to the casino here in Monte Carlo. In simple terms, Arsenal must do in the second leg on Tuesday night what has never been done before in Champions League knockout phase history – turn around a two-goal deficit. It has led to plenty of talk of it being Monte Carlo or bust for Arsenal. But Mertesacker summed up the mood within...
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