ARSENE WENGER admits there is no margin for error against Bayern Munich tonight.
Arsenal are battling to save their Champions League campaign following back-to-back defeats.
Another loss to the German giants will leave their qualification hopes hanging by a thread.
“We have our backs to the wall and we play against a top, team so I can understand the scepticism of people,” said Wenger.
“But we have to prove them wrong.
“We have played great Bayern teams at least as good as this one and beaten them – the one that made the treble with Franck Ribery at full power, Arjen Robben at full power and Toni Kroos, Bastien Schweinsteiger and Thomas Muller in midfield.
“So I believe we have played good Bayern sides and got good results against them.”
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Bayern have won the trophy five times, most recently two years ago.
But Wenger said: “We don’t look at the history. We look at the potential performance on the day. That’s what we try to do. After that the history doesn’t play the game.
“What will decide the game is the performance we produce. That comes from if we believe we can do it.
“You have to respect Bayern. Historically they have won the European Cup how many times? Five? And Arsenal zero.
“So you cannot say that historically we are at the same level as Bayern. They have done it in the past and they have the history and the knowledge. What we want is to get there.
“We want to win it but the obsession at the moment is to stay in it, not to win it.”
SOURCE: dailystar.co.uk