‘Arsenal Deserved Better’- Bayern Boss Ancelotti Reveals

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‘Arsenal Deserved Better’- Bayern Boss Ancelotti Reveals

Bayern Munich Manager, Carlo Ancelotti, has said that the 5-1 thrashing of Arsenal in the second leg of the Champions League round-of-16 at the Emirate Stadium on Tuesday night was not the true reflection of what happened on the pitch.

The German Champions progressed to the last-8 after dumping the Gunners 10-2 on aggregate and the Manager said the match was a difficult one for his side.

After Theo Walcott’s first half strike, things turned around after Bayern were awarded a penalty and Koscielny was handed a red card.

Lewandowski converted from the spot, before Robben and Costa scored one each and Vidal scored a brace to put Arsene Wenger and his men to the sword.

And Ancelotti believes Arsenal were on top of things before Koscielny was sent off.

He told post-match news conference, “It was not a crazy game, more difficult. Until the penalty the game was really difficult.

“Arsenal played really well for 50 minutes, putting a lot of pressure in the game.

“We had difficulty defensively and also with the ball. We did mistakes that we are not used to doing.

“This result doesn’t really respect what happened on the pitch because Arsenal played a really good game.

“With 10 men it was really difficult. For us, the penalty took out all the pressure that we had.
“We started to play with one more man and we scored a lot of goals but, honestly, the result does not respect what happened.”