It wasn’t purported to be this tough. Within the opening quarter-hour, it didn’t look as if it was going to be this tough. In the long run, it may have been so much worse for Arsenal and a draw nonetheless offers them an inexpensive probability of development to the semi-final. They did have the wherewithal to seek out an equaliser. They received away with it. However the greater difficulty is how they allowed a sport they have been dominating to slide from their grasp.
A penalty shootout win in opposition to Porto was evidently not sufficient to banish Arsenal’s European demons. However these demons are maybe not confined to the Champions League….