Championship league’s last sixteen is getting hotter day by day not by what is happening on the ground, but for the space these matches are getting into the media. After a bitter verbal fight between City and Barca managers, it’s time to revisit the past after Bayern Munich defeated Arsenal by 2-0, but this time, Governing body has come forward with a disciplinary proceeding. Actually, when Arsenal goalie Wojciech Szczesny was sendoff after he tried to bring down Arjen Robben inside the box just before the half time, he showed some hand gestures while heading towards the tunnel. His reaction later found to be in violation of UEFA codes of conduct and abusive to referees hence disciplinary committee has now decided to advance action against 23-year-old Polish footballer. It would have not been a big issue had TV broadcasters not showed it live on the streaming, but accidently or whatever, Sky Sports telecast it and whole world saw it which made it even a bigger issue. Though, the match ended in favor of defending European champions, but Arsenal manager is optimistic they can still make it if they could improve their performance in remaining matches. He said, “It’s a blow but when you look back at last year — we lost here 3-1 — it was a bit worse than now. We’re looking forward to Munich and why can we not repeat that from last year?”
If we look at the English season, Arsenal enjoyed being on the top for most part of it, even now, they are among the top two teams likely to triumph English topflight, but as far their European campaign is concerned, they need to overcome some of the finest attack in Europe and last match was just one of them. However, German blamed their busy schedule off late for the defeat and said, “We’ve played four tough games in the last two weeks,” he continued. “Munich are a fantastic team, they play with possession very well. We tried everything today, especially in the first 10 minutes but overall we have to take the defeat with us to Munich. Mentally we are stronger than last year.”
This could just be an excuse, but they need to prove it in upcoming matches; it would also depend upon how they finish their English season where City is one of the biggest hurdles for them. Anyways, this is not a new thing where a player expresses personal anger after a red card and Szczesny just did that; it would be interesting to see disciplinary proceeding against him ahead of upcoming crucial matches!