Arsenal:
             Lehmann
 Lauren Cygan Toure Clichy (Cole 83)
Pires  Vieira Edu (Flamini 36) Reyes
  Henry Ljungberg (van Persie 76)

After a quiet start, the home side took the lead on 3 minutes. Oliver Kahn kicked hugely, and although Toure got his head on the ball as he was running back to deal with it, he got it all wrong and it fell for Pizarro who slammed a terrific volley past Lehmann.

Arsenal went into panic mode for a while but started coming into the game more and more as the half went on. Reyes nearly put Henry through but his first touch was miled too strong. Then Henry chipped into the box for Freddie but from only just inside the box he tried a looping header under the bar and only succeeded in popping the ball into the air nicely for Kahn to gather. A terrific ball from Reyes for Henry found him judging marginally (harshly, perhaps) offside. And Clichy had a good effort which was deflected for a corner.

Arsenal got off to promising start in the second half when Reyes got into a deep position on the left. But he went for a near post shot when Freddie was unmarked and crying out for a pas son the far side of the goal. Then Pires got into a similar position on the right and played a cut-back into the box but Henry was the only man there and he'd made a run closer to goal. Then Freddie was put through on the right but was well shepherded and only managed a soft shot straight at Kahn.

All this within 5 minutes of the break but Bayern soon gathered themselves and on 6 minutes a great ball to Lehmann's left side of his goal was played for Roy Makaay (who'd been quiet) and he forced a terrific reaction save out of the Arsenal keeper.

On 57 Clichy made a clumsy and not entirely necessary foul out on the left wing. As the free kick came in Toure allowed Pizarro to move for it unchallenged, and his glancing header gave Lehmann no chance.

And 7 minutes later it was 3. Bayern worked the ball nicely on their left wing, then hit a cross which Lehmann, who'd advanaced towards the ball probably a little too much, could only get a fingertip on. He only succeeded in diverting it straight to Salihamidzic who'd made a move into the far side of the box which all the Arsenal players had allowed themselves to be dragged away from, and he buried it in the net.

Almost straight after that Frings was put clear on the left of our box, and the Bayern fans cheered as it moved the back of the net but it turned out to have hit it from behind after Frings had missed the post by a gnat's whisker.

Reyes hit a free kick a foot or two over the bar. Then Lauren was lucky not to be sent off for launching himself two-footed at the ball as a Bayern man came in from the side. He probably got away with it because he was in posession of the ball and had just played it a little strongly in front of him, so was clearly aiming to make contact with the ball. That followed some terrific but scary defensive play by Pires, bringing the ball out past opponents, from right in front of his own goal.

Van Persie came on for Freddie who'd had an unusually quiet game: he didn't get as involved as he normally does which was probably to do with playing most of the game up front rather than (nominally) on the wing. It was all a bit weird really, with Reyes on the left wing much of the time and Pires on the right where he's clearly less effective.

Cole came on for Clichy with 7 minutes to go, also odd given that Clichy was one of our better players on the night and that Cole had declared himself unready to start the game. Not that Cole played badly in the few minutes he was on. Then with 3 minutes to go, a long Arsenal free kick came through to Vieira who hgad to stretch to get his foot on the ball and hook it past Kahn, only to see it come back off the post. A defender made a pigs ear of his unpressured clearance from 6 yards out and it fell to Toure who hit a good low drive between Kahn and the near post which he was guarding.

That goal makes all the difference. It's a tricky task but it's unlike Arsenal not to score, especially at home, and if we can get the first one in the home leg then the pressure will be on Bayern.