Walcott: The secret to beating Bayern

The forward has revealed his side's tactical approach against the Bavarians after beating them 2-0 on Tuesday night

Arsenal forward Theo Walcott says the secret to the Gunners' 2-0 victory over Bayern Munich on Tuesday was their counter-attacking approach.

Goals from Olivier Giroud and Mesut Ozil gave Arsene Wenger's men their first Champions League group stage victory of the season to keep their hopes of qualification alive.

And Walcott has now praised the Arsenal manager for his tactics after revealing the plan that was put in place prior to the game.

"It was just one of those days when we had to be patient," he said to Arsenal.com
"We knew we were not going to have a lot of the ball and we had to go at them on the counter-attack.

"You can't just chase them - if you chase the ball you just get passed around and you are going to lose so much energy. There is no need to do that.

"You just have to bide your time. Once they lose the ball they pressure quite quickly. If you can counteract that first pressure you have a chance.

"We were getting at them while we could and dropping back while we had to and obviously the goals came at great stages."

Arsenal were thankful to goalkeeper Petr Cech for making a number of superb saves and Walcott hailed the summer signing and the rest of his team-mates for their efforts.


"Everyone did their jobs really well and I have to say Petr [Cech] in goal was fantastic and made a number of very, very important saves," he added.

"Everyone worked really hard and deserved it.

"There was a lot of pressure on us, we knew we couldn't lose but a win was a massive ask. The confidence is just flowing through the team at the moment, you can see that.

"Results show that and if we continue this you never now where it is going to take us - we are looking really strong."
 
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