Will Arsenal learn from its mistakes of recent years, losing — and losing badly — at home in the first leg of the UEFA Champions League’s round of 16? Manager Arsene Wenger believesthe Gunners have a chance to show they have learned their lessons when they host Barcelona Tuesday.
“Barcelona are super favorites in this game,” Wenger said. “No team is perfect,although they are not far from it Barcelona, I must say. But we have a good opportunity to show that we have learned. It’s true that we gave ourselves a difficult task every time after the first leg[in recent years], maybe because we were too keen to make the difference in the first game.
“Therefore we have to find the right balance between being audacious, because that’s what wewill need to be against Barcelona, and being strong defensively as a unit and not put ourselves in front of a very difficult task in the second leg.”