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To think that only Real Madrid was the only team that never had the opportunity to finish among the top 8 teams in the table, they have to qualify for play off and later comes to the knockout stage where they are now facing Arsenal for the next quest. My mind is telling me that Arsenal will put them in their place because they have not been consistent, but are Arsenal even better? If Arsenal has edge one can depend on it would have been easier to say they can win but they aren't better.

I don't know what to think of Bayern and Inter, the town teams seems to be king on their lane where two are top in their domestic league, they even share similar points and just one game difference of win games in their domestic league. If we want to talk about experience, the two teams has been in the final atleast ones before, it's very tough call to make between these two teams but I'm certain Bayern has an edge of winning in this stage.

I think that Bayern will have an advantage only on their home field, they play the first match at home and should win, but Inter is not a team that will allow itself to be beaten so easily, Inzaghi managed to create a very competitive team that has proven that it is not for nothing that it plays in the playoffs for several seasons in a row.

And by the way, in the match between Real and Arsenal, I am also not sure that these will be easy matches for Real, if Arsenal manages to score quickly, then everything may not go as Ancelotti expects. Arteta has little experience, but he learns quickly, so Real will have to try hard to beat such an Arsenal.

Arsenal vs Real is quite predictable confrontation. We can try to guess that Arteta will try to play attacking football, then Arsenal will concede 3-4 goals from Real and then there will be a meaningless return game, or if Arsenal does not want to play attacking football and try to play from the defense, then still concede, but less, for example, only 2 goals and still lose.
Against such strikers that Real have it is difficult to do something and Arsenal conceded from teams much lower level than Real.
Therefore, unlike the pair Bayern vs Inter in the confrontation between Arsenal and Real I think everything is clear for a long time.

This game is a tricky game for arsenal because they are coming against one of the best attacking teams in Europe if not the best so arsenal has to play with caution because going all out in a attacking formation is not a wise on for arsenal as a team because they don't have what It takes to sustain that style of football in the 90minutes of the game.

The best approach for arsenal is to wait for Madrid and get them on the counter this game will be decided on the mid field so if arsenal can try and win the game on the midfield it will be of help to them because if players like Thomas paty can be effective in the middle then the chances of arsenal winning this game will be high