'Given Uefa’s preference' - national media make Arsenal VAR point after Bayern Munich controversy
Arsenal's Champions League quarter-final against Bayern Munich remains on a knife edge as they go into the second-leg at the Allianz Arena level. Bukayo Saka handed Mikel Arteta's side the lead after 12 minutes, but the lead lasted a mere six minutes.
Former Gunners youth prospect Serge Gnabry continued his hot streak of scoring in the capital before Harry Kane put the visitors in front from the spot. The ex-Tottenham Hotspur talisman came back to haunt Arsenal after Leroy Sane burst through before he was hauled down in the box.
Arteta's substitutes proved to be the difference, as Gabriel Jesus set up Leandro Trossard for the equaliser with 14 minutes remaining. The encounter was overshadowed after Manuel Neuer brought down Saka, but Glenn Nyberg was disinterested and blown for full-time.
The hosts survived a penalty scare of their own during a bizarre turn of events in the first-half. David Raya passed to Gabriel from a goal kick, but the Brazilian picked up the ball and started play, despite Nyberg blowing the whistle when the Arsenal goalkeeper was in possession.
The North London club travel to the Allianz Arena next Wednesday as they look to silence the German crowd. Here's how the national media reacted.
'Demands for a penalty can be brushed aside — they got away with one'
Jason Burt of the Telegraph wrote: «His team had created nothing in the second-half having naively surrendered an early lead, with uncharacteristic calamitous mistakes from their centre-halves, and so the Arsenal manager rolled the dice.
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