It's been almost the invincible Arsenal squad that we all used to know during their best of best seasons back in 2002/2003, where they fought back a dramatic 5-2 win against Tottenham Hotspur 2 weeks ago, and then came from behind again to win Liverpool at Anfield with a 1-2 scoreline. After the heroic weekends, Arsenal had to face a resurgent AC Milan side at Emirates, 2nd leg tie of the last 16 Champions League knockout stages. It was a game that Arsenal had to put their full potential side to ensure a big win as to cancel out Milan's impressive 4-0 win at the first leg at San Siro. They were a whisker close of accomplishing that, but unfortunately, a 3-0 home win for the gunners at the Emirates just not good enough to cancel out the big margin of goals that Milan piled on them. Arsenal were totally outplayed in the first leg at San Siro, and it was the last game of the legendary Thiery Henry. His departure ended in agony as Arsenal were crashed 4-0 by Milan and they proved Milan that they are a side capable of winning any cups in European level with almost a great comeback, but just lacking with a goal difference. Milan progressed to the last-16 with a 4-3 aggregate win, and their striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic, said in an interview ''Arsenal almost caught us and could have snatched a great win if they had taken the chance that Van Persie had in the second half, and we were very lucky to come out as winners overall at the end of the day''. Arsene Wenger praised his young Gunners and said that they deserve to be in the Champions League last-16 with the performance that they put on with Milan in the second leg at Emirates. Arsenal were looking more like the top favorites to qualify to the last-16, when they already took a 3-0 lead in the first half itself, but Milan somehow recovered well at the back realizing that they allowed free flow football for Arsenal in the first half. Arsenal are a team you need to watchout, especially during counter-attacks, where they can be promising and they will deliver beauties and that's what happened during the AC Milan's game. The scorers that night were Koschiely, sorry if it's spelled wrongly, then we have Rosicky and Van Persie adding the tally to the goals. Van Persie's penalty, a penalty that we hardly see from any players these days, as it was such a pile driver with great amount of power in it and it's definitely unsaveable by any keeper at all.
