Match report – Player ratings – Video I know it may not be the overwhelming mood this morning, but I'm happy we won. As I said yesterday, our biggest opponent was ourselves, and so it proved. Over the course of two legs we've played Benfica, and we've played Arsenal, and won. In those 180 minutes they scored a penalty, a brilliant free kick (albeit one conceded rather clumsily), and a goal we absolutely gifted them. Beyond that, they really didn't cause us too much trouble, and despite our best attempts to push the European self-destruct button, we overcame the opposition and our inner footballing demons. Let's get the bad stuff out of the way first. The slowness. Argh. A game...
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