Here’s one we prepared earlier:  Stuart Pearce in Euro ‘96. Lando Calrissian in Return of the Jedi. Tonight, Arsenal will be seeking to achieve what that pair famously attained: redemption. While venturing into Bayern Munich’s den in an attempt to overturn a two-goal deficit may seem a longer shot than a carousel horse in the Cheltenham Gold Cup, Arsenal may just be embiggened by the fact that tonight’s tie is about more than merely progressing in Big Cup. It is about atoning for the first leg. At least, that’s what it’s about for Mesut Özil – but for the club as a whole, and Arsène Wenger in particular, it is about atoning for the last eight years.  The truth that, like Eamonn Holmes in a narrow corridor, is impossible to avoid is that when push comes to shove, Arsenal fall down. That is how it has been since 2005. Sometimes there have been perfectly acceptable justifications for that, sometimes it has been a result of a strangely flawed policy, and sometimes Wenger’s team has just bottled it. Tonight is a chance for Arsenal to prove they have grown up and, in the process, rub all that talk about specialising in failure right in the smug face of the Special One – and if that’s not a powerful motivator, then Nicklas Bendtner is the best player in the world.  But of course, it’s not as simple as being really up for it, is it? For if this Bayern team hit top form they could give Arsenal a drubbing from which they might never recover, at least not in time for the upcoming Premier League games against Spurs, Chelsea and Manchester City. You have to fear for Thomas Vermaelen at left-back, in particular, and that bench isn’t looking very strong. And the decision to start without Mathieu Flamini and with both Lukas Podolski and Olivier Giroud could prove either ingenious or reckless.  In short, tonight we will witness history, or just the same old, same old for Arsenal.
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