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A lot of people here are probably new to CL football in context to Arsenal and assume that every team not in the top 6 of PL or like…PSG, Juve, Bayern and Real/Barca are just bad. You saw this with Lens who had a great season last year but people assumed we would just walk over them like it was nothing.
I think people also don’t realise the allure of the CL over the EL. Our best players WANT to play in the CL, that’s why “Champions League Football” is sure an advantage in transfer negotiations. We can’t and won’t play second rate squads in that competition because it’s valued as equal to the PL. Trossard, Jesus, Havertz, Rice etc. all came here because they want to play in that competition.
The years of playing in EL has basically just warped a lot of newer fans perception of what a European campaign should look like.
People who watched since the old CL can probably remember the surprise with which even a dire banter era side could turn over a team in the EL
It’s just an entirely different level between the two
Oh yeah like a dire Arsenal team with Carl Jenkinson in it managing a win over Prime Bayern lol