What’s Hot and What’s Not from Arsenal’s season so far

NOT – Another last 16 Champions League exit

It’s not the first time that Arsenal’s season has started to unravel around January/February time, with two league defeats to Watford and Chelsea within five days doing for their Premier League title hopes.

And their thumping 5-1 loss at Bayern Munich in the first leg of their last 16 clash in the Champions League last week looks set to end their European hopes for another season as well.

Wenger’s men went one better this season by winning their group, which consisted of French champions Paris Saint-Germain, but with so many good sides finishing runners-up, it was going to be Arsenal’s luck to draw one of the big boys.

And so it proved, with Carlo Ancelotti’s Bayern finishing behind Atletico Madrid in Group D, although still proving too much for the Gunners to handle at the Allianz Arena last week.

Wenger’s side completely capitulated in the second half to once again leave them staring down the barrel of a seventh successive last 16 exit, which again highlights how far they are away from Europe’s elite.