Is this season's Champions League quarter-finals the strongest in history? But after watching the eight quarter-finals, we are almost certain that this is the best group of quarter-finals in the history of the Champions League. Not to mention anything else, just look at the number of goals, 8 games, a total of 32 goals were scored, an average of exactly 4 goals per game. This is the quarter-finals of the Champions League, not the group stage. Although scoring goals is not the whole story of football, at least, games with more goals can provide more variety.
What's more, in 8 games, basically every team, in every game, has a goal, can play 4:2, never play 2:0, although, the difference is the same. Therefore, basically every game, there are ups and downs of the elements, take the big Paris away game against Barcelona as an example, if there is no background of Barcelona scoring first, where is the big reversal of the big Paris?
If you list the matchups and scores of the eight games, we will see a full screen of goal figures, and there is no shortage of big numbers in the goal range of 3 or 4. The score of a match consists of two numbers, so we can see 16 numbers.
But the embarrassing thing is that out of 16 numbers, there is only one 0. Yes, there is only one team that, in a certain game, has been kept a clean sheet. It's a little bit of a scenamy. It's no wonder that people say that this team has the least experience in the Champions League among the quarterfinals.
Arsenal.
In the first leg, Arsenal drew 2:2 with Bayern at home, and it was already revealed that they were not as good as their opponents. In the second leg at the Allianz Arena, Bayern defeated Arsenal in the process of being calm and mature. If we can all feel the unknown tension in the other three second-leg matches, then Bayern vs Arsenal, we really feel that Bayern are not so afraid of being knocked down by Arsenal.
This is Arsenal's return to the Champions League after 7 years, and many players in the team have no Champions League experience. And they can reach the quarterfinals, on the one hand, because the strength is really good, on the other hand, it is also related to the fact that the quarterfinals did not draw top opponents. After all, Porto are not a top team in the round of 16. Even so, the process of Arsenal passing the test was also thrilling.
Facing Bayern in the quarterfinals, many people are optimistic about Arsenal, on the one hand, Bayern has a significant decline this season, on the other hand, Arsenal have been ravaged by Bayern 10:2 in the Champions League, this time they must be hungry for revenge.
But it turns out that in the quarter-finals of the Champions League, experience is too important. At the critical moment, Arsenal was still a little tender, and in Allianz, they were indeed unable to create a substantial threat to Bayern. This 1:0, sandwiched between many scores like 4:1, 3:3, 4:2, and 3:2, is indeed a bit embarrassing.
It is said that Atletico Madrid and Dort are weak in the quarterfinals, but the least experienced and the least experienced one must be Arsenal. Even if you look at history, Arsenal are also one of the worst teams in the Champions League in the quarter-finals, with Atletico Madrid reaching the final back in the 70s and Borussia Dortmund winning the title. Arsenal have only reached the final once, about the same time as Grand Paris, but Grand Paris have been much better than Arsenal in the Champions League in the last decade.
I have to say that Arsenal's rise in the past two years is still very strong, back to the top of the Premier League, and this season is indeed better than last season. But at this stage, Arsenal seems to have a bit of a tendency to drop the chain, losing to Aston Villa in the last round of the Premier League, and the title situation suddenly became serious. And the Champions League exit is also a big blow for them. Perhaps, it will take longer for Arsenal to fully recover and return to their heyday two decades ago.