We have a lifeline, just

We are let down by our defense, again
Arsenal never make it easy for themselves. Not so tonight either. This time around it was no Pascal Cygan or Jens Lehmann to blame. Kolo Toure made a dreadful miss trying to head away a long goalkick from Oliver Kahn and Pizarro made it 1-0 already after 4 minutes. We couldn't have had a worse start. After Arsenal had a decent finish in the first half Bayern killed off the game. Pizarro left Toure for stranded again to score his second and Salihamidzic scored to make it three minutes later. There is no excuses to be made. Bayern had a solid defense, Arsenal didn't. When you play the best in europe you can not allow yourself to make multiple errors in defense and expect to win games. You can perhaps get away with it in England, but not at the biggest scene of them all. That is the simple facts of the matter and that is the task Arsene Wenger has to address to push this team to the top of european football.

A glimmer of hope
There were nothing left for Arsenal to do but to try to get a priceless away goal that would give us a glimmer of hope before the return game. Irony had it that Kolo Toure was to be the one to get it. Good for him. That goal changed this tie from almost certain elimination to give us a fair chance. We can do the job, IF we keep a clean sheet.