Arsenal vs. Bayern Munich, for the Champions League: result, summary and goals

The Gunners drew 2-2 with the German team at the Emirates Stadium, in the first leg of the quarterfinals of the competition. Bukayo Saka, Serge Gnabry, Harry Kane and Leandro Trossard, the goals.

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75′ 2T: Arsenal – Goal from a play by Leandro Trossard 31′ 1T: Bayern Munich – Penalty goal from Harry Kane 17′ 1T: Bayern Munich – Goal from a play by Serge David Gnabry 11′ 1T: Arsenal – Goal from a play by Bukayo Saka

Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal drew 2-2 with Thomas Tuchel’s Bayern Munich at the Emirates Stadium in London, for the first leg of the 2023/24 Champions League quarterfinals. Bukayo Saka started the game, Serge Gnabry and Harry Kane turned it around, all in the first half, and the introduced Leandro Trossard tied the series in the second half.

Arsenal vs. Bayern Munich: the compact of the match

Arsenal welcomed an evening full of goals, in the 12th minute, when Saka exposed Alphonso Davies, who lost a ball, was unable to follow the Englishman and saw in the foreground the shot to the far post of the star.

But everything changed just six minutes later when Gnabry took advantage of a nervous Gunner defence. Gabriel, with all the time in the world, was complicated by Kane’s pressure and managed to free himself from the Englishman with a committed pass to Jakub Kiwior, who failed to catch the ball. Yes, Sané did, who combined with Leon Goretzka and he left Gnabry alone against David Raya.

The goal came as a shock at the Emirates, where no one celebrated the goal, due to the ban on the Germans from attending this match.

However, the one who was the coldest was Arsenal, who received another blow after half an hour. Gnabry led a counterattack from the center of the field and was dodging rivals until William Saliba tripped him. Very clear penalty and Kane from eleven meters.

On his return to London, in the field of his greatest rival, Kane saw the ghosts of the penalty he missed in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar and that still reminds him of him in England, but this time he was right (he already scored 15 goals against the Gunners) . Cold blood and tranquility to deceive a Raya who defeated himself long before his time.

There Bayern Munich was able to draw blood and kill the game, in a transition in which Sané ran alone from the center of the field, but in which it took him forever to load his leg and ran into a spectacular recovery from Ben White.

Arsenal had survived its worst minutes and began to get going in the second half, especially with the entry of Trossard and Gabriel Jesús. The Belgian and Brazilian scored the second goal, after a brutal threat from Jesús and a definition from Trossard.

With the tie, the game could have gone either way. Bayern Munich made it 2-3 with a shot against Kingsley Coman’s post and Arsenal claimed a penalty from Manuel Neuer in the last play. There was no prize and the move to the semi-finals will be decided next Wednesday in Germany.