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Your support makes all the difference.Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger was left disappointed with the way his "naive" side were beaten by Barcelona in the Champions League.
The home side went into half-time with the score 0-0 with Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain missing a golden opportunity to put Arsenal into the lead.
In the second half Barcelona stepped it up and Lionel Messi scored twice to seal a 2-0 win - one from a lightning quick counter-attack and the other from the penalty spot. The defeat leaves Arsenal facing a massive task to overcome in the Nou Camp.
"We were naive," Wenger told BT Sport. "Similar to Monaco [when they were eliminated at the same stage last season] when it looked like we could win this game we gave it away.
"That [second goal] makes it realistically very difficult, if not impossible [to come back]. We have to go there [to Camp Nou] and fight. It is difficult because I thought in the last 20 minutes there would be room to score. We had the chances but didn’t score.
"They are lethal. One thing we couldn’t afford to give them was counter attacks because they are very dangerous. That’s exactly what we did. We pushed too far in their half and got caught. That’s down to their quality as well. It’s too easy to blame I think you have to respect the effort the players put in. What is frustrating is that it looked like they might tire.
"I knew in the last 20 minutes we would have a chance to win the game if we don’t make any mistakes and that’s the frustration of the night."
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