We all applauded Mikel when he played Tomi against Salah but he decides to play Kiwior against Sane. Make it make sense.

That chance ben white missed to get us 2-0 up. We could've had a completely different conversation here. In this high level can't miss chances like that. And the way we conceded the goals. We kinda bottled this result. And saka should've scored that last min chance and not look for the pen. That could haunt us. The only minor positive is that we didn't lost. But the task to advance is a lot harder now. We can't play kiwior at 2nd leg for sure. Jesus and trossard changed the match completely. I think partey when he came on was better than jorginho

Martinelli has been awful ALL SEASON Big C. It’s time to start having honest conversations about him

Imagine having a player like Leroy Sane in your team. That guy's dangerous, definitely the sort of player Arsenal should be looking to sign in the future.

Not PK, he should stay on his feet and knock that ball in the net

We've won only 1 game away in the ucl...It's going to be a stressful away tie

Martinelli is just not involved in the game whatsoever, hes too far out wide. The limited time he does get the ball his only options are to pass it inside or take on 2 players. No help from Kiwior, system is killing him

Saka bottled it. Elite striker just slots it away. He wanted a penalty

This was the perfect game to put in Tomiyasu. Also Partey should have come on much earlier. Jesus and Trossard did more in 20 minutes than Martinelli and Havertz did in 70.

Has anyone seen Gabriel’s school boy mistake bayern should have got a stone wall pen handling the ball we got away with it. School boy from the players and manager today.

Now we see clearly who Should be starting in The next leg

Big up Curtis. I think we played the occasion and not the game, our inexperience showed. If Tomiyasu was fit, he should have started. It's a 50/50 but not a clear and obvious penalty for me, I think Saka is looking for it and sticks the leg out. I'm disappointed, however I think a draw is a fair result with the chances Bayern had and the goals we gifted - Gabriel's fault for me and a lack of communication

190k on the watch along big c ! Give tanx to the most high for all your hard work shaping our community ! We were far from our best ! And still got a draw ! Bitter sweet ! But we gwan ! Shout out Cruz ❤️ #coyg

Just go around him and score...he could have avoided him he made the move...

Curtis I've watched it over a few times and I think Saka was repositioning to shoot, not dangling his leg. Watch it back, he was adjusting his balance and planting his right foot in a position to take a swing with his left foot. At first I thought he was dangling the leg but I've watched it back over and he's got eyes on the ball looking to shoot. Pen, Imo.

What about gabi handball during goal kick ... lucky we wasnt 3-1 down as the ref made a big mistake so he leveled it out

I blame Gabriel more than Raya. Yes Raya shouldn’t be so far up, but Gabriel had plenty of time to kick it out or kick it down the other half of the pitch. SCHOOL BOY defending, we learn the basics even as kids “IF IN DOUBT, KICK IT OUT!!” 🙄🙄

Martinelli was poor today, has been all season. We don’t play to his strengths, if we look at the right hand side. Saka has Odegaard to give him the ball and white to over/underlap. If Martinelli played for klopp he would be elite!!

SAKA could have just slotted it, no trophy this season again

Curtis you are the best! Am an arsenal fan, and you are the most honest arsenal fan. I try to listen to you live but sometimes am at work. Big C keep it up

Phil Foden would have rounded the keeper and sloted it home. Saka left a trailing leg and tried to get the decision which was always risky. There are levels to this!

Disappointed but we weren't good enough. Only saka, Jesus and trossard performed for me. The team didn't deserve to win.

Fix the starting lineup....put in jesus troussard and tomi and lets give it another go

Jesus need to start him and party need to start in The next leg

Martinelli wasn't poor, he wasn't getting the ball and when he did there was no support no one overlapping like Ben white with saka

Var In premier league takes forever going over every detail. Var in champions league never stops play but never told what’s happening. Very strange

Big up Big C we'll get back at them!

Raya doesn’t need to come out his box, but Gabriel could have literally kicked for throw, and kiwior is just shit so I don’t expect much from him

I agree with you bro, Saka could of scored that. Neuer did make contactbut it wasn’t enough and Saka initiated it I thought. We beat ourselves in this game.

Arteta picked tbd wrong line up for me but he did make the right subs at the right times. Personally I think it’s a pen but probably not enough of a clear error for var to intervene.

The things that’s odd is that VAR doesn’t even check it whether it ended up being a pen or not!!

With Bayern's 1st goal and the bad pass by Gabriel, all over defenders and midfielders were caught flat footed. Rice went galloping out of position and our defenders were naive. Playing on their heels.

This is the second time Raya is coming out from his box Porto and today

Curtis! I think you are spot on about that potential Saka "penalty"! 👍👍 Your thoughts at the moment the incident happened were mine entirely!...Because the ref didn't give it, this meant that VAR were unlikely recommend that the ref overturn his original decision, because there was too much element of doubt as to whether or not Saka either initiated ,or could have avoided contact!

Big C, you've done Benny Blanco dirty. He was not "below average". Watch back from minute 35:30, we are 2-1 down, Sane has a clear run on goal, Odegaard is 3 metres behind him and White is 5 metres behind him. White catches up Sane at the last moment in the box and stops him getting a shot in for 3-1. Game changer my bro. Plus he had an assist and yes he missed a goal but that wasn't an easy chance even for a striker. Put some respect.

If we get over the nerves and play our football we beat this bayern team at their home but the cone man has alot to work on before the second leg...jesus and tomi needs to start in the second leg..i still think we will beat them but we surely are making hard work of it..COYG

Disapointing result man. Feels like a missed opportunity as we were at home at fhe first leg with no bayern fans. This is on the players and arteta. Arteta with the wrong selection at the start with Jorginho and Kiwior who were hindering us but at the same time if White scores that chance when we were 1 nil up, we would be in an comfy position. Also we gifted bayern two goals due to bozo moments. Of course we can win against bayern at the allinz and its not doom or gloom but we sure make it hard for ourselves.. Finally, Yes it was a penalty. Shocking decision from the ref. Full focus on villa

Big C Without sentiment, it was not a penalty

It’s like the Wan Bissaka pen. He goes for the tackle, then misses and plants his leg and Elliott runs into his leg.

Disappointing. Raya out of control first half. Should have observed Gabriel had it and supported him. Huge momentum killer. Saka should have stayed up and would have had a goal.

We didn't play at our best! But I think we can get the job done.

Ben White was immense tonight. He’s having a stellar season.

Regarding Odegaard, Bayern had one player on him constantly. Everytime he got ball that player was pressing Odegaard

Big up, big C. Imo, it was a pen. Saka couldn't avoid the keeper however, our game was ruined by Raya's action. The team became nervous and Bayern got the momentum back. Sad but we should be stronger and win the second leg. Keep up the great work,. Coyg!

We’re all caught up on whether or not that’s a pen. What does it matter? It wasn’t given. You rarely get calls like that in the UCL. And honestly, that shouldn’t be the narrative. Fact is, we were DREADFUL for large portions of that game. Schoolboy errors everywhere, misplaced passes galore, poor decisions constantly… what a disappointment. Let’s have it straight, Bayern were average at best. We made them look way better than they actually were. Half of these players don’t deserve to start the next leg and Mikel has a lot to figure out before heading to Munich.

It's not the opposition but Arsenal's team performance that worries me as well. We can beat the best when the right team shows up , but when we are subpar we are dreadful to watch. I do believe it's a penalty, but we shouldn't hold that as an excuse for losing, that performance was shocking ! Bayern were not good and could be dealt with! now we go to the Allianz and we can only hope now

I told you Curtis it was a smokescreen when they ost to heidenheim Kate should have seen red and David raya was in no man's land Ben whites miss was the turning point. We gifted them goals and partly should have started trossard for martinelli

There were multiple times when Bayern played a simple one two between their mids deep in their own half and beat our entire midfield. It left our back 4 under pressure they hadn't seen before. Although Partey gave the ball away a few times, his passing broke lines, and we were more dangerous when he came in. Finally, Jesus dropped a 9/10. Beautiful play from him.

Deff not a pen extends his leg he could have scored if he didn’t do that

Even if it was, which it wasn't!, Bayern should have had a stone wall Penalty, when saliba just picked the ball up, but ARSENAL FANS DON'T want to talk about that, i think 2-2 was a fair result as a neutral!!

Big up, player… commenting to strike that algorithm… Big up & bless up ⬆️ Now the pressure is on to win in Bayern… 🫡

HAVERTZ.... This game showed why we cannot have luxury players....Bayern had ALL their players working full time

I think we need to seriously face up to it that Martinelli is a one dimensional player. Absolutely ZERO trickery, skill or dribbling ability. Admit it now: He’s a pure pace merchant like Adama Traore. Runs only in a straight line and has the occasional shot. Nothing else. He should be a squad player and definitely not start at Allianz.

The only thing is that the second game is do or die for Bayern this season ! Big pressure !

Waited so long for CL, especially this stage - then the PTSD kicked in. Both goals were gifted to them. Not a pen for me, he was looking for the contact, he flung his leg towards Neuer

in the moment the draw was painful especially with that ending, but we have to accept that the champions league is just different. small mistakes are costly and teams like bayern, who have nothing to play for in their own league, will see this as their only shot at glory and will look at the inexperience in our team and smell blood. that european heritage is a real thing as corny as it might sound and we dont have that, we're trying to build it slowly. for our first time at this stage in years a draw to bayern is not the end of the world, just gotta shrug it off and move.

On the penalty .... we should never have put ourselves in the position to be chatting about the game being settled by penalty hopes .... facts...

Saka tried to cheat his way to a victory.

I think Ben White needs more credit than being paired with below average.

I like your analysis, Saka would have gone ahead and score that goal. Rather, he decided to fall for a penalty that wasn't given. So sad

Saliba shouldn't have made that challenge. Ball was going away from Sane and White was behind him to mop up

That should have been a card for saka for kicking the goalkeeper.. I can’t believe he didn’t just go around him an score instead of looking for a pen and diving

Big C our guys were nervous and it caused them the match But you know what I trust them to get the job done in Bayern Munich because this boy's can grow and deal with Bayern.

Martin played well Big C

I am open to having my mind changed, but it looked to me as though Neuer was pretty much standing still and a sprinting Saka ran into him. Regardless, I suspect that the ref was NOT going to give a controversial penalty in the last minute or so of the match given that the ref saw Magalhães commit the most blatant handball ever and deliberately ignoring the offence. Tuchel went crazy in the technical area after Arsenal had a goal kick, the ref blew up, Raya took it with a pass to Gabriel Magalhães on his left. Inexplicably, Magalhães bent down and picked it up with two hands for NO obvious reason!!! Tichel saw it. TNT coverage missed it as did all the Bayern players! The ref saw it according to Tuchel and said that he did not give it on purpose, as he saw it as a schoolboy error. Kane should have been red carded. Before he elbowed Gabriel Magalhães, he looked over his own left shoulder shoulder to see where he was. He then lashed out with his right arm, on the blind side of the ref.

Great result for Bayern. We have work to do in Munich and lots of the players need to turn up cos they were poor

Never a penalty. Saka is getting a reputation for diving and limping off when he has a bad game to feign injury. Foden showed the level difference tonight. A draw is a great result for Bayern... Its just alright for Arsenal. Arsenal will crap themselves away. We already saw they don't do well at noisy, passionate European grounds at Lens and Porto.

Not a pen for me sorry. Saka runs into Neuer, should have scored instead of going down

Neur extended hus leg and then pulled it back. Saka's body was not positioned properly and he also took a bad touch so he initiated the contact and went down. Not a penalty in the UCL. Maybe he would have gotten it in the PL.

Gabriel thinks hes playing rugby 😂😂

Big up curtis and the community, just watching on catchup .. bit dissapointed with result ,not end of the world but not sure how we'll get on Germany , its just that European football seems to be arsenals ' monkey on the back ' we should be a European force like the Madrids , milans ,Liverpools, but we seem to be nowhere near !! Hopefully we can do better in seasons to come , KEEP THE FAITH fellow gooners ...COYG

I think we were rattled after we went down 2-1 maybe that’s why we didn’t create

I think Arsenal lack the composure in certain areas to be dominate against the elite teams tonight was a big example. The early signs at Man City were there. The problem is near the end I saw some tired legs with Ben White, Rice, Jorginho & Havertz . How will Arteta manage the minutes for them in the Villa game with the return leg 3 days after. We can’t afford to allow for the game in Germany to go to extra time. Too much at risk with fatigue and injury. Arteta will have to manage the Villa game masterfully with his rotation. The advantage is that we are at home..

All considered a draw was a fair result, we gifted them their 2 goals, White & Sane should've scored in front of goal, their post and Saka should have just gone for the goal with intent, not taking the PEN as it presented itself. The occassion got to us just like Porto away, but this time however, the 2nd leg is away!

Big C do me a favor if you want to understand why Saka penalty was not given just listen to TURCHEL post match interview absolutely shocking what this disgraceful referee did. In my opinion the referee balanced the game based on what Turchel said in the post match interview 😡😡😡😡😡😡

Everyone can see that the KIwi was not ripe at this level. It's all on Arteta.

I can't understand how you guys are saying it's not a penalty. He is in momentum and Neuer stckes his leg out. Saka leg being extended is irrelevant!

Not the result we wanted . But we move. Great community vibes tonight it was ridiculous. And hosted by the best in the business. We need to liven up for the next leg . Cccc unit

Not a pen and should have been a yellow for Saka. Honestly lost a lot respect for him trying to pull that shit

Never a pen for Saka. Curtis this is THE CLnot prem we saw that the rules are different against Porto. Saka needs to man up breda, realise this is a big occasion stay on your feet and score SIMPLE

He could’ve avoided him but it was still a pen. Goal scoring opportunity denied. When keepers dive at the ball with their hands the player can nearly always avoid it, but it’s still a pen if they make contact. Overall it’s Saka’s fault, he could’ve taken responsibility rather than relying on the ref.

First off, *Bayern were held by Arsenal* . That Coman ball hit the pole. Bayern had a penalty shout that wasn’t given Secondly, that was never a penalty for Saka. Saka deliberately pushed his leg towards neuer. Saka should have scored not five

no penalty for me Saka should have to do more I wish that ball had Trosad or Jesus.

Havertz ain't going no where big C. He will be the Arsenal striker until the end of the season.

I agree with Curtis, it was Rayas fault!

Striker these days are looking for contact instead for trying to score... RUBBISH

Disappointing result, a good humbling, and a necessary learning curve. Positives and negatives. Saka proving he’s a big game player. Our goals were clinical and theirs were gifted though mistakes. We’re taught what it’s like to make mistakes in the CL, and how quickly you’re punished. The defenders, especially Saliba got an ego check. Why did he even stick a leg out? He couldn’t get the ball. White was behind him. And the angle was bad. As a unit they panicked on the occasion. Trossard proved he’s a baller baller. Saka didn’t dive, but shamelessly forced contact. Really disappointing. Especially growing up in the 90s. Stay on your feet brudda. I initially thought Neuer had planted his foot, but he hadn’t, which means he hadn’t finished his tackle before they made contact. What I don’t understand is, Saka had beaten the keeper and created a great opportunity. Where he intended to plant his right leg was unnatural for needing to turn left. He should’ve genuinely moved his leg out of the way. He had a 33% chance of missing, scoring, or genuinely drawing the pen. It’s a penalty in the prem. Perhaps he’d even get the pen earlier in the second half, but no ref is giving that in the 95th min in a game like this. I hope Arteta tells him not to be like Ronaldo. Bless up Curtis, Cruz and the community 🙌🏽💙

It was not a penalty. Looks like he kicks Neuers right leg in desperation. This decision is a win for modern football. Players should go back to playing the game instead of playing the ref.

I think Tuchel bottled it taking off Sane, that guy was giving us different kinda problems! Imagine if we had him AND Saka kmt MENTAL.

It’s a penalty. Saka is the player being challenged he doesn’t have to jump out of neuers way. He is changing direction from right to left where else is his right leg supposed to be but in the GK charging path. Stonewall penalty. Referee was a coward and VAR didn’t even check it

Just had a look at the saka incident and I can say it wasn’t a penalty lol he jumped into the keeper leg lol.

I CANNOT BELIEVE the people that think it's NOT a penalty. DID YOU SEE THE PEN THEY GOT?!?!?! ALSO NEUER LITERALLY STICKS HIS LEG OUT INFRONT OF SAKA, WHY SHOULD SAKA DO EVERYTHING TO DODGE NEUER AND RISK FALLING/LOSING HIS BALANCE WHEN NEUER COMES RUSHING OUT AND STICKS OUT HIS LEG??? Absolutely incredible

David Raya wtf was he doing I rather not sign him on a permanent 🤷🏽‍♂️

Bayern Munich are Champions league royalty,..always in the final stages like Real Madrid,Barcelona....this stage is another step up for our players,they have to learn the rhythm of these matches...mistakes we could get away in the league,..we will not in the CL...its a learning process,we are not going to win this competition and we have over achieved,..we did not lose and it's a one off game now...we love them 😏

Saka should have just tried to score... I like Saka but he's been dropping stinkers for about a month now...

2-2 off of mistakes. Fix it and win it

Saka should’ve tried to score

It just wasn’t our night, but I think we’ll beat them in the second leg big up big C👊🏾

No it wasn't a pen but Bayern should have had one when your defender picked it up in the area. What's the use of having VAR.

Chances R Curtis m8, I hate saying it, considering the Chest I had leading up to the game!! My word the Chest has gone rather flat now bro, I've seen Arsenal produce results but now going To the Alianz Would take something special and I don't see us coming out of that alive you know! We do well to score first is all I'm saying, Score First and one hell of a performance from our defenders is whats it's going to take 👏 🙌 👌 Then we look at how City get through their game and take it from their bro? I'm gonna tell you from now, get past Munich Next week Anything is Possible ❤❤❤