No doubt about it. Arsenal's victory over Real Madrid on Tuesday was a great performance and a great result. Well done to all concerned.

However, wasn't it what we should have expected? Backs to the wall and all that. This is the team remember who lost a league title that they should have won (2003) and used a song Manchester United sang when they were presented with the trophy (we've got our trophy back...we've got our trophy back....etc.) as the motivation for a historic and unbeaten next season.

So we would expect them to get beaten to Blackburn away the following Saturday? Too right. Did they? Absolutely.

Two things you can draw from this I think.

You can defiantly say that Real Madrid must be the most expensively compiled bunch on misfits (who only use the word tackle when it comes to fishing or euphemisms about their private parts) since Michael Jackson decided to alter his facial features.

Also, be sure that Arsene Wenger can produce a mind set within a team that is literally unbeatable sometimes; no matter what the circumstances. Let's see if it can last for the second leg!