{"id":4100,"date":"2024-04-18T03:17:26","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T03:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internationalpulse.net\/?p=4100"},"modified":"2024-04-18T03:17:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T03:17:26","slug":"arsenal-star-criticised-by-martin-keown-after-champions-league-exit-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalpulse.net\/?p=4100","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal star criticised by Martin Keown after Champions League exit | Football"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Martin Keown speaking after Arsenal\u2019s Champions League exit (Picture: TNT Sports)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Martin Keown criticised Bukayo Saka after Arsenal\u2019s \u2018hugely disappointing\u2019 Champions League exit and said his former club \u2018did not deserve\u2019 to get past Bayern Munich.<\/p>\n

Joshua Kimmich\u2019s powerful second-half header was enough to send Bayern through to the semi-finals in a 3-2 aggregate win over Arsenal.<\/p>\n

Arsenal were the favourites to advance before the tie, having mounted another Premier League title challenge this season under Mikel Arteta.<\/p>\n

They were facing a Bayern Munich team who, for the first time since 2011, failed to win the Bundesliga, creating huge uncertainty over the future of head coach Thomas Tuchel.<\/p>\n

But 2022 Champions League winners Bayern showed their European pedigree to get past Arsenal, who last reached the semi-finals in 2009.<\/p>\n

Keown said he felt \u2018as flat\u2019 as Arsenal\u2019s performance after the game and criticised Saka, whose decision to take a quick free-kick in the dying seconds of the game proved ineffective.<\/p>\n

\u2018It was very disappointing, kind of summed up at the end there when Saka for some reason taking a free kick [short] when there was the opportunity to really test the goalkeeper,\u2019 Keown told TNT Sports.<\/p>\n

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Bukayo Saka after Arsenal were beaten by Bayern Munich (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u2018You just saw that little bit of lack of experience. There needs to be more urgency in the closing exchanges. Saka made that decision in the moment.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018I admire that as well. But I think he might have been better taking that delivery from the free kick and it might have been a wonder goal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018I feel as flat as the performance. They were flat throughout the game, there was no real urgency at the end. It\u2019s hugely disappointing.<\/p>\n

\u2018It was there for the taking but Bayern came out with that extra resolve. It\u2019s a really disappointing night for Arsenal. You just want the players to perform to their maximum but that didn\u2019t happen tonight.<\/p>\n