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The last time Arsenal lost by three goals Mikel Arteta’s side looked very different
Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal side are favourites to progress (Picture: Getty) Arsenal fans hoping for a straightforward evening at the Bernabeu will no doubt have been left feeling a little less secure after watching Aston Vill and Borussia Dortmund come close to completing comebacks last night. The Gunners head into the second leg of their Champions League quarter final with a commanding 3-0 lead after their devastating display a week ago. While the Gunners are now odds-on favourites to qualify, nobody is taking anything for granted, especially given Real’s track record of producing remarkable acts of escapology in this competition. Even without one of their defensive linchpins, Gabriel Magalhaes, who also missed the first leg, Arsenal can be forgiven for feeling justifiably confident. Under Arteta, they have been transformed from the notorious soft touches into one of the meanest defensive units in European football. Get personalised updates on Arsenal everyday Wake up to find news on your club in your inbox every morning with Metro’s Football Newsletter. Sign up to our newsletter and then select your team in the link we’ll send you so we can get football news tailored to you. When was the last time Arsenal lost 3-0? In order for Real Madrid to force the contest to extra time, they will need to win by three goals inside 90 minutes. So resolute have Arsenal been at the back under Arteta that you have to go back almost two years since they were beaten by such a margin. Brighton were the opponents at Emirates Stadium three games before the end of the 2022/23 season when Arsenal’s title bid had completely run out of steam. After a goalless first half, Julio Enciso broke the deadlock shortly after half-time before late goals from Deniz Undav and Pervis Estupinan effectively ensured the Premier League trophy would remain at the Etihad Stadium. Of the 11 Arsenal players who started that game, only four are likely to do so again this evening. Arsenal’s line-up against Brighton the last time they lost 3-0 way back in May 2023 When was the last time Arsenal lost 4-0? You have to go back even further to find the last time Arsenal lost by a margin that would see them crash out of the Champions League tonight. On that occasion, Arteta’s emerging team suffered a chastening defeat at Anfield when Jurgen Klopp’s title chasers ran riot. Arsenal actually started that contest impressively, but Liverpool were stung into action after a touchline confrontation between Klopp and Arteta. Anfield awoke upon seeing their manager riled by his opposite number and under a tidal wave of pressure Arsenal were swept away. Arteta, infamously, prepared his side for that match back in November 2021 by blaring out audio of the Anfield crowd at Arsenal’s training ground to try and get his team used to the ferocious atmosphere they were set to encounter. The Arsenal team that lost 4-0 to Liverpool in November 2021 As shown in the Amazon Prime documentary series All or Nothing, after geeing his players up with some words of encouragement, the Gunners boss asked for speakers to be brought out onto the training field. ‘Boys, mentally we start to play the game now. We are at Anfield.’ He told the squad as You’ll Never Walk Alone rang around London Colney. In the previous scene Arteta had explained how his only feeling of helplessly as a player came when appearing at Anfield. ‘Suddenly I could only see red shirts flying around,’ he said. ‘The game was passing me by and I could not react. People must have been thinking “what is he doing?” ‘And I’m like, “I cannot do it, physically, emotionally, I cannot cope because everything moves too fast.” And I only had the feeling in my career once and it was at Anfield.’
Arsenal fans hoping for a straightforward evening at the Bernabeu will no doubt have been left feeling a little less secure after watching Aston Vill and Borussia Dortmund come close to completing comebacks last night.
The Gunners head into the second leg of their Champions League quarter final with a commanding 3-0 lead after their devastating display a week ago.
While the Gunners are now odds-on favourites to qualify, nobody is taking anything for granted, especially given Real’s track record of producing remarkable acts of escapology in this competition.
Even without one of their defensive linchpins, Gabriel Magalhaes, who also missed the first leg, Arsenal can be forgiven for feeling justifiably confident.
Under Arteta, they have been transformed from the notorious soft touches into one of the meanest defensive units in European football.
Get personalised updates on Arsenal everyday
Wake up to find news on your club in your inbox every morning with Metro’s Football Newsletter.
Sign up to our newsletter and then select your team in the link we’ll send you so we can get football news tailored to you.
When was the last time Arsenal lost 3-0?
In order for Real Madrid to force the contest to extra time, they will need to win by three goals inside 90 minutes.
So resolute have Arsenal been at the back under Arteta that you have to go back almost two years since they were beaten by such a margin.
Brighton were the opponents at Emirates Stadium three games before the end of the 2022/23 season when Arsenal’s title bid had completely run out of steam.
After a goalless first half, Julio Enciso broke the deadlock shortly after half-time before late goals from Deniz Undav and Pervis Estupinan effectively ensured the Premier League trophy would remain at the Etihad Stadium.
Of the 11 Arsenal players who started that game, only four are likely to do so again this evening.
When was the last time Arsenal lost 4-0?
You have to go back even further to find the last time Arsenal lost by a margin that would see them crash out of the Champions League tonight.
On that occasion, Arteta’s emerging team suffered a chastening defeat at Anfield when Jurgen Klopp’s title chasers ran riot.
Arsenal actually started that contest impressively, but Liverpool were stung into action after a touchline confrontation between Klopp and Arteta.
Anfield awoke upon seeing their manager riled by his opposite number and under a tidal wave of pressure Arsenal were swept away.
Arteta, infamously, prepared his side for that match back in November 2021 by blaring out audio of the Anfield crowd at Arsenal’s training ground to try and get his team used to the ferocious atmosphere they were set to encounter.
As shown in the Amazon Prime documentary series All or Nothing, after geeing his players up with some words of encouragement, the Gunners boss asked for speakers to be brought out onto the training field.
‘Boys, mentally we start to play the game now. We are at Anfield.’ He told the squad as You’ll Never Walk Alone rang around London Colney.
In the previous scene Arteta had explained how his only feeling of helplessly as a player came when appearing at Anfield.
‘Suddenly I could only see red shirts flying around,’ he said. ‘The game was passing me by and I could not react. People must have been thinking “what is he doing?”
‘And I’m like, “I cannot do it, physically, emotionally, I cannot cope because everything moves too fast.” And I only had the feeling in my career once and it was at Anfield.’
