Olympiakos had played 12 and lost 12 in England before tonight
And scored only 3 goals.
That’s why I fancied Arsenal to beat them 2-0.
But the final score on MatchDay2 was Arsenal 2 Olympiakos 3.
If Olympiakos score three goals at the Emirates, how many will Bayern Munich rack up? How many will Lewandowski get?
Verdict: Sanchez would be great with Lewandowski or Martial.
He’s wasting his artistry with this leaderless rabble from the Colney Creche.
Alexis Sanchez helped Chile to win the Copa America for the first time ever. He’s one of the heroes of Latin American football.
And now he has to try to combine with Walcott and Oxlade, who can’t read him or play him in.
Alexis Sanchez has vision, bottle, pace, instinct and two good feet. He’s a star gladiator who can win headers against defenders of six foot three. He could have played with Pele and Jairzinho in 1970. I’m not saying I would have dropped Tostao to play Sanchez, because the little guy blended so well with Pele, who admired Tostao’s finesse hugely.
But Sanchez, who looks out of place in this Arsenal team, would not have been out of place in the Brazil’s World Cup-winning team in Mexico.
All last year, all through 2014, and often before that, I’ve said that Arsenal are one of the Top 16 teams in Europe but not one of the top eight.
PS I’ve just been told, at 10.35pm, that Wenger said yesterday that he didn’t go for Martial because he didn’t think Monaco would sell him.