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We could have easily lost to Sevilla.
Spuds and Leicester have been to the last eight more recently than us, itâs still poor which ever way you spin it.
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Of course it is, but thatâs not the point of my post.
Thereâs just no need to draw a connection between a stupid event like this one and Wenger, unless you are desperate to find them everywhere you look. Thereâs no shortage of reasons to want Wenger out, I donât see the need to go looking for them as a result.
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Sevilla > Monaco 14/15
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So many people happy today. Were Arsenal playing today?
Yeah, tbh I completely forgot about Monaco when I wrote my post, but anyways thatâs pretty much covered by the " And havenât been as lucky as Leicester were over two legs either" part, as @Burgundyâs post points to. If we had been as lucky against Monaco as Leicester was against Sevilla weâd have won without any issue.
Tbf half the job of going through the ro16 is winning our group consistently and weâve been doing a poor job at doing that. Itâs more than just drawing a team like Sevilla that has us struggle in that competition. Also that Milan side we lost 4-0 to was far from the greatest team on earth.
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Leicester is a massage from God to us: people to survive need to abandon the barça-esque football style and return with the catenaccio.
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Do you think we should move away from a possession based game? (Even though weâve tended to do that in recent games vs Barça and Bayern - through force or choice)
Barcelona-esque football never really was the standard. Not for other teams.
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Yeah, true, though tbf weâve rarely had group stage draws as friendly as Leicesterâs either.
Anyways, I donât disagree with any of this of course, itâs obvious. Like I said, I just find it boring to make pretty specious connections between events like these and Arsenal to beat a dead horse even more. That we are shit in Europe is undeniable and patently obvious, but I also donât think Leicester is somehow better in Europe because theyâve been in quarters more than we have over a determined time period. Itâs just boring and if we get into arbitrary nonsense like that we can change the time frame and say so and so team hasnât even been close to a final in the last 15 years, blah blah blah.
Quite a number of times we sat back and played counter and had good resultsâŠ
And we wonât if we donât enter the CL as champions of England.
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Lol at Nasri, still bantering us off all these years later. Leicester reaching the quarters is yet another stick for people to beat us with.
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Balanced and factual. I think those are the two GFI traits i admire the most.
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Well here we have one of these so called classy teams we always hear about fluffing there lines.
Fucking 2 goal start 2 penaltys and they lose to a struggling English side in a relegation battle.
Pretty happy about it tbh. Sick of hearing how technically superior every team in that league is to the prem.
Main thing tonights result has done for me after 2 poor CL campaigns by this team is further devalued the Europa League.
Theyve won 3 on the bounce and failed in the process to get out the group stage of the CL and then failed against a relegation team after having a 2 goal lead.
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I came here to make this joke, but I was too late. 
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This feels all a bit dĂ©jĂ vu. Last year we spent the whole season convinced Leicester would drop away. âOh theyâll be 8th by Christmasâ âTheyâll be out of top 4 by Febâ âOh, well they will get top 4 but wonât win the league.â âOh crapâ.
This season: âNo way are Leicester getting out of their group.â Then, âtheyâll get smashed by Sevillaâ followed by âoh, well they wonât get through the quarter finalsâŠâ Hmmm, just imagine the scenes if they go all the way! 
The only teams I can see Leicester being an outside chance against in the quarters are Citeh and Dortmund, mainly because both are very hot and cold.