Champions League | Arsenal beat Borussia Dortmund to qualify for last 16

Champions League | Arsenal beat Borussia Dortmund to qualify for last 16

Tuesday night, for once more to qualify for the Champions League knockout stage, Arsenal beat Borussia Dortmund 2-0 at the Emirates.

The North London club has managed to get the better of German opposition in the Champions League for the first time in five matches thanks to strikes in each half of Yaya Sanogo and Alexis Sanchez.

The team made a dream start to the proceedings by taking the lead after only 73 seconds, through France hopes international Sanogo, who won his place in the line of departure due to a knee injury, again by Danny Welbeck.

The young striker played a neat one-two with the impressive Santi Cazorla on the edge of the penalty to the visitors ' entrance area, before then displaying remarkable freshness by deftly slipping the ball under the body of the onrushing Roman Weidenfeller to Dortmund.

And while the subsequent replays showed the young to be slightly offside, Sanogo could further protests from the holding of the Bundesliga null and void had he managed to double his team advantage minutes later.

However, despite plays own thanks to the goal after the Dortmund offside trap has malfunctioned on the median line, in this case the starlet composure abandoned, and the chance went begging as the defence of visitors to go eliminate the danger.

The Gunners were not made to pay for their waste before the goal but also in shape before Sanchez was 2-0 after 57 minutes with a beautiful curling finish with his right foot from the edge of the area.

And that the strike was the international Chile from the 13th in just 20 games all competitions since his arrival from Barcelona in the summer, while the diminutive striker has also now managed to find the back of the net seven times in his last six games.

Thus, visitors seemed to have the stuffing beaten out of them and barely threatened to shoot a goal in the final half-hour, up to their first defeat in the competition since they were beaten by eventual champions Real Madrid in the quarterfinals of last season.

At the same time for the local team, the pressure now is at least out of their manager's seat under Arsène Wenger after their recent setbacks first League with Swansea City and Manchester United.

Arsenal is now able to look forward in competition in the last 16 of the Champions League next February - the 15th successive season in which they reached this stage - and they still have a chance to claim top spot in the group come the latest round of matches.

And the french was particularly satisfied with the white sheet of his team after the match, saying: "our goal well defend all liked me more. I think that we had a game similar to the Saturday (when they lost 2-0 at home to Manchester United).

"And we have really good focus does not to give all the chances and overall, it was a committed game and we were maybe better defensively tonight."

"We are a team that likes to go forward and sometimes, when I feel that we completely dominate a game we may be a bit of a victim of this and we forget to take the precaution of defend well, but I think that we learn as well through the games and we have better tonight. ''

VERDICT OF GRAEME SOUNESS

Alexis is a real plus for Arsenal this year. It receives all types of goals, and on top of his goals, he made others play because it is contagious.

He has perpetual motion, it never abandons a cause, and you can see what his goals are for him. He lives and breathes football and it should be a treat to play with him, and makes other people play.

If you have someone ride every day to the training it will be first in the group, doing all the market correctly, it will show a lot of enthusiasm - which will be infectious to the lesser light in this team of Arsenal, younger players, those who may not have the same attitude. Players like him are invaluable in your group.

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