
Why is Arsenal's attack misfiring and how can Arteta change it?
Why is Arsenal's attack misfiring? Mikel Arteta needs to change tactics.

Bayern Munich and Real Madrid faced off in a thrilling Champions League match filled with high-quality goals and dramatic moments. The game ended with controversy over a red card issued to Madrid's Eduardo Camavinga, which shifted the momentum in Bayern's favor.
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While a church bell clanged intermittently and bits of tumbleweed blew across the pitch at the Emirates Stadium, the Allianz Arena hosted a ding-dong battle that pretty much had it all on Wednesday night. For the second evening in eight days, it was left to Bayern Munich and Real Madrid to pull out all the stops and provide the box-office entertainment as Arsenal once again Arsenaled their way past Sporting in a bore draw to earn their place in Bigger Cup semi-finals. More or less picking up where theyâd left off at the end of the first leg, Bayern and Madrid served up a gourmand feast of slapstick goalkeeping, a see-sawing scoreline, much better goalkeeping, near-misses, goals of an at times absurdly high quality, several red cards and no end of post-match salty Spanish tears and recriminations. While Madrid have little or no chance of pipping Barça to this seasonâs La Liga title, they certainly thrashed them in the ungracious Bigger Cup exit stakes.
While their bitter Catalan rivals had some justification for complaining about assorted big decisions that didnât go their way against AtlĂ©tico 24 hours previously, Madridâs post-match meltdown over the red card shown to Eduardo Camavinga when the tie was on a knife-edge resembled the kind of full-on collective tantrum thrown by a group of toddlers ordered to turn Bluey off and go to eat a big plate of vegetables. Already on a yellow card, Madrid substitute Camavinga stupidly delayed a restart. While the impression was conveyed that ref Slavko Vincic probably wouldnât have issued the second yellow if heâd remembered heâd already cautioned the player, he was left with little or no option when assorted Bayern players enthusiastically reminded him through the medium of mime. Following Camavingaâs untimely exit, Bayern scored the decisive goals that settled the tie.
In the ensuing post-match âdebriefâ both Arda GĂŒler and his head coach Ălvaro Arbeloa appeared to be chosen at random from any number of eligible antagonists to also see red. âObviously, you canât send off a player for something like that,â fumed Arbeloa, toeing the general Real party line that suggests the laws of the game should only be applied to other teams. âThe referee didnât even know he had a card and he ruined a very exciting, very evenly matched tie, a real battle and thatâs how the game ended.â
Bayern Munich and Real Madrid played a thrilling match with high-quality goals, controversial red cards, and a dramatic scoreline.
Eduardo Camavinga received a second yellow card for delaying a restart, which led to a red card that changed the game's momentum.
Key moments included slapstick goalkeeping, several red cards, and a see-sawing scoreline that ultimately favored Bayern Munich.
Real Madrid's players and coach Ălvaro Arbeloa expressed frustration over the referee's decisions, particularly regarding Camavinga's red card.

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Real Madrid offer some, letâs say, disagreements. Photograph: Matthias SchrĂ€der/AP
While there would have been few complaints from anyone watching if this epic battle had been prolonged for an additional 30 minutes, we can but speculate over how much Camavingaâs exit on 86 minutes contributed to the result on what Bayern striker Harry Kane described as âa special nightâ. Victory meant even more to Vincent Kompany, who went so far as to put Bayernâs triumph right up there with his previous greatest achievement as a head coach. âI remember we beat Blackburn twice in Burnley,â he intoned, to an audience of blank stares. âNo one in this room [of journalists] will want to compare it to today, but it was amazing.â Kompanyâs next Bigger Cup task is to mastermind victory over PSG in the semis, where he will no doubt call upon his players to invoke the spirit of Wigan 1-5 Burnley.
To Bigger Vase! Weâll have piping-hot MBM coverage in the quarter-final second legs from 8pm BST: Scott Murray will guide you through Nottingham Forest 1-2 Porto (agg: 2-3), while Niall McVeigh helms Aston Villa 3-1 Bologna (agg: 6-2).
âWhen I arrived nine years ago, I was following a dream of a little boy, wanting to succeed in life, wanting to achieve great things. This city and this club gave me much more than thatâ â Bernardo Silva confirms what the loose-lipped Pep Lijnders revealed recently, that the Manchester City captain will leave the club at the end of the season.
double quotation markThe image of FermĂn LĂłpez getting the boot from Juan Musso (yesterdayâs Football Daily) clearly shows technique learned from English players. Admittedly, LĂłpezâs head appeared to be at a dangerous level and one might expect an element of risk from crouching like that. As a life-long Hearts fan, I havenât forgotten the approximation of a tackle attempted by English full-back Jason Talbot, then âplayingâ for Livingston, on poor young winger Sam Nicholson in 2015. This was one incident in a match which, I believe, carries the accepted term âfeistyâ (ie five goals, eight yellow cards and one red). And no, this wasnât the redâ â Ken Muir.
double quotation markRe: your almost-spot-on analysis of Southamptonâs chances of automatic promotion (yesterdayâs News, Bits and Bobs, full email edition), what you and â to be fair â every other publication Iâve read about this in, have omitted to mention is that Ipswichâs game in hand is away to Saints during the week before the last games of the season. Rather pertinent, Iâd sayâ â Stuart Ainsworth.
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