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Theo - "Europe is affraid of us now " - rofl !!!!
Theo Walcott says Europe's top sides will be fearful of playing Arsenal after their 5-2 Champions League destruction of Fenerbahce in Istanbul.
The hosts' intimidating Sukru Saracoglu Stadium has been a fortress over the last couple of years, with the team not having lost there in 16 European matches before the Gunners blew them away.
And England international Walcott, scorer of the second goal within 11 minutes, thinks it is a result which cannot be ignored by their main rivals.
"All the teams will look in Europe and see the 5-2 win, Arsenal away, with a young team and I think the other teams will be scared to play us," said the 19-year-old.
"That's the impression we want to give out to all the other teams. We do that and we have always got them on the back foot and hopefully we can just keep performing like that."
With a defence missing three first choices in William Gallas, Kolo Toure and Bacary Sagna there were always going to be a few lapses but it was the attacking strength of Arsenal which got them through.
The result also probably puts them within one win of making the knock-out stages.
"It was absolutely brilliant. The main thing was getting the three points and everyone got their jobs right and we scored five goals and it was nice to see us taking our chances," said the former Southampton youngster.
"This young team has had a lot of experience at Champions League level now.
"Everyone got their jobs right - we studied Fenerbahce and how they play.
"We knew their fans would be right behind them but we quietened them down straight away by scoring two very early goals and it was a brilliant performance."
With a two-point cushion at the top of Group G and Fenerbahce to come next at the Emirates Stadium, Walcott believes it gives the team a chance to re-focus on their domestic campaign.
Shock defeats away to Fulham and at home to Premier League newcomers Hull have dented their bid to keep pace with leaders Chelsea and Liverpool.
But the confidence from their European performance can only assist in improving their league form.
"It definitely does help because the Premier League is important as well," said Walcott.
"We always want to play well whatever game we play, but we are just looking at every game as it comes, not getting ahead of ourselves and that's all we can do really.
"It's going well. Sometimes you have slips in the season but we've dropped a few points and have to make sure it doesn't happen again.
"Hopefully we can build on this win. We will have to study this game ahead of the next one.
"We just need to take the positives out of last night because it's something we need to learn from.
"There were quite a few negatives as well but it's not going to always be perfect every game - but it was definitely perfect in the final third."
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nice one theo !
Theo Walcott says Europe's top sides will be fearful of playing Arsenal after their 5-2 Champions League destruction of Fenerbahce in Istanbul.
The hosts' intimidating Sukru Saracoglu Stadium has been a fortress over the last couple of years, with the team not having lost there in 16 European matches before the Gunners blew them away.
And England international Walcott, scorer of the second goal within 11 minutes, thinks it is a result which cannot be ignored by their main rivals.
"All the teams will look in Europe and see the 5-2 win, Arsenal away, with a young team and I think the other teams will be scared to play us," said the 19-year-old.
"That's the impression we want to give out to all the other teams. We do that and we have always got them on the back foot and hopefully we can just keep performing like that."
With a defence missing three first choices in William Gallas, Kolo Toure and Bacary Sagna there were always going to be a few lapses but it was the attacking strength of Arsenal which got them through.
The result also probably puts them within one win of making the knock-out stages.
"It was absolutely brilliant. The main thing was getting the three points and everyone got their jobs right and we scored five goals and it was nice to see us taking our chances," said the former Southampton youngster.
"This young team has had a lot of experience at Champions League level now.
"Everyone got their jobs right - we studied Fenerbahce and how they play.
"We knew their fans would be right behind them but we quietened them down straight away by scoring two very early goals and it was a brilliant performance."
With a two-point cushion at the top of Group G and Fenerbahce to come next at the Emirates Stadium, Walcott believes it gives the team a chance to re-focus on their domestic campaign.
Shock defeats away to Fulham and at home to Premier League newcomers Hull have dented their bid to keep pace with leaders Chelsea and Liverpool.
But the confidence from their European performance can only assist in improving their league form.
"It definitely does help because the Premier League is important as well," said Walcott.
"We always want to play well whatever game we play, but we are just looking at every game as it comes, not getting ahead of ourselves and that's all we can do really.
"It's going well. Sometimes you have slips in the season but we've dropped a few points and have to make sure it doesn't happen again.
"Hopefully we can build on this win. We will have to study this game ahead of the next one.
"We just need to take the positives out of last night because it's something we need to learn from.
"There were quite a few negatives as well but it's not going to always be perfect every game - but it was definitely perfect in the final third."
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nice one theo !
