Arsenal need belief, says Theo Walcott after Bayern Munich mauling
Arsenal have plenty of talent but it is hard for the team to move forward if they cannot hang on to their best players
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Jack Wilshere takes on
Bayern Munich's David Alaba during Arsenal's 3-1 Champions League
defeat. Photograph: John Sibley/Action Images
By 9.30 on Tuesday night, the question needed to be reworded: would any Arsenal player make it into this Bayern team, the one that resembled a machine, whose parts clicked seamlessly and whose power was, frankly, intimidating? Jack Wilshere would vie for selection and the thing that elevated his gutsy performance was that he frequently resembled a one-man band. Arsenal's No10 did not have the support of a Bastian Schweinsteiger or Javi Martínez or Toni Kroos.
And that, folks, is it. On the evidence of 90 minutes when Bayern seized on Arsenal's first wobble to take such a stranglehold that it felt as though they came to play a little within themselves, the difference between the clubs prompted two more questions. For Arsenal it was not so much the 3-1 defeat – hardly unexpected – rather, how had they come to lag so far behind one of Europe's elite clubs? Secondly, and perhaps more urgently, how do they pick themselves up to ensure they are not cast further adrift?
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