What’s Hot and What’s Not from Arsenal’s Champions League campaign

HOT – Won their group

It seems a while ago now, but some crumb of comfort for Arsenal fans from their Champions League campaign is that they did indeed win their group.

Wenger’s men won four and drew the other two of their six matches in Group A, with comfortable victories home and away over Basel and Ludogorets intertwined with draws against the other top side in the group, Paris Saint-Germain.

The Gunners showed resilience to come away from the French capital with a 1-1 draw back in September, and showed genuine quality in the home leg to almost get all three points but for an Alex Iwobi own goal 13 minutes from time.

It has been put to Arsenal for many years that they need to win their group to give themselves the best chance of progressing past the last 16 stage – they did that, although it’s not every season that a team like Bayern will finish runners-up.