Arsenal 2 PSG 2
Cavani 18 Giroud 45+1 pen Verratti(og 60) Iwobi(og)77
Cavani stabbed in a Matuidi cross for 1-0 and Paris Saint-Germain bossed the first half.
Replays showed no pressure on the ball as Thiaga Motta played a nice pass into Matuidi’s run and Arsenal dopey back four was wide open.
Playing like this, I can’t see Arsenal beating Basle on December 6th.
This performance was nowhere near good enough.
Drawing with a very good side at home? It happens. But not like this.
After under-performing against Spurs in a 1-1 draw, and being lucky in another 1-1 draw at Old Trafford, Wenger’s team needed to produce last night.
They had to win to top Group A. But never looked like winning.
In the second half, Cavani wasted two chances to make the game safe for PSG, who still miss the composure of the great Zlatan.
Incredibly, Arsenal scored two goals after having one shot on target.
At Old Trafford, Giroud’s header was their only shot on target.
Lucas Moura,the Brazilian winger, is a seasoned competitor who will take Ludogorets apart.
Blaize Matuidi, a ball-winner with a very powerful engine, will terrorise the Hungarian champions.
Big Cavani will be too powerful for them. And very keen to make up for the goals he missed at the Emirates.
Unai Emery, the 45-year-old Basque who won three Europa Cups back-to-back with Sevilla, is the kind of up-and-coming coach who will soon be employed in the Premier League.
Emery should be on Ivan Gazidis’s short-list.
But that short-list is hypothetical because Ivan works under Arsene, who interviewed him for his job.
Bottom line : Coquelin and Ramsey are not Champions League players.
If Walcott or Oxlade were Champions League calibre they would have started this game
Why was Petr Cech not in goal?
VERDICT: The developmental manager’s laptop is still picking the team and it’s doing a piss-poor job. Wenger should chuck his computer in the nearest skip.
Arsenal: Ospina; Jenkinson, Mustafi, Koscielny, Gibbs; Coquelin, Ramsey; Sanchez, Ozil, Iwobi; Giroud.
Subs: Cech, Monreal, Gabriel, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Xhaka, Walcott, Elneny.
PSG: Areola; Meunier, Silva, Marquinhos, Maxwell; Verratti, Krychowiack, Motta; Lucas, Cavani, Matuidi.
Subs: Trapp, Kimpembe, Ben Arfa, Jese, Ikone, Nkunku, Augustin.
Referee: Felix Brych (Germany).