Can Arsenal Upset Bayern Munich in Champions League Quarters?
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00:03 - And look, it really feels like the script writers
00:05 are working overtime here.
00:06 Of course, Harry Kane, longtime member
00:08 of the Tottenham Hotspurs,
00:10 actually spent a little bit of time,
00:11 a long, long time ago in the Arsenal Academy.
00:14 If you go searching, you can find some photos
00:16 of Harry Kane in that Arsenal shirt.
00:18 He leaves Tottenham Hotspur,
00:20 ends up signing for Bayern Munich.
00:22 And of course, this is who Bayern Munich
00:24 has to face in the quarterfinal.
00:26 Now, this definitely is not a Bayern Munich team
00:29 that is going to be feeling so imperious
00:31 that Arsenal should view themselves as the underdog,
00:34 even in the away leg.
00:36 This is a team that is drawn at home to Freiburg.
00:39 This is a team that has lost away to Bochum.
00:42 This is a team that actually,
00:44 in the first leg, lost to Lazio, right?
00:47 This is a team that their greatest players
00:51 are all a little bit past it,
00:52 if you just look at both their XG in terms of creativity
00:57 and XG in terms of finishing.
00:59 A lot of their guys, Eric Chubomoting,
01:02 Thomas Muller, Leon Goretzka,
01:04 they're all way below their historical averages.
01:07 In fact, I would say the only two players
01:10 amongst the outfield guys who are having something
01:12 approximating one of their better seasons
01:14 are Jamal Musiala, who's 21 years old,
01:17 and of course, Harry Kane, who is 30.
01:19 But the midfield leaves a little bit to be desired.
01:23 One thing I'm really looking at here is,
01:25 does the fact that Arsenal's midfield
01:27 is a little bit less experienced, right?
01:29 Declan Rice has never played in a Champions League
01:32 quarterfinals, that can end up being a big deal.
01:34 But obviously, they do also have
01:36 European Championship winner, Jorginho,
01:38 who I would expect to probably start both of these legs.
01:41 I actually, I'm gonna take Arsenal over these two legs.
01:45 I don't think that will be the prevailing opinion,
01:48 but I think Arsenal has enough to get through here.
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