Mesut Ozil says Arsenal will approach the defining Group F showdown with Olympiacos believing they can and will complete the job.
The Gunners travel to Greece knowing that a victory of two clear goals, or a winning margin of three goals or more, is the only outcome which will see the north Londoners amend the defeats from the group’s first two games and progress into the knockout phase.
It is an uphill task, but Ozil is confident of getting the result they need.
It will be very hard. Olympiacos can play good football and we saw that at Emirates Stadium.
They want to play on the counter-attack but we can’t concede goals like we did before again.
It’s achievable to win there by two goals and that’s what we want to do.
This is the fourth time Arsenal have faced Olympiacos in the final matchday of the group stage, losing all three previously. But on each of those occasions, the Gunners have been assured of their place in the top two.
With their fate not sealed and the mentality that a win is a necessity, the strongest XI will be fielded unlike in most of the those defeats in Greece previously when Arsene Wenger could rest his stars.
German international, Ozil, says his teammates and he must leave nothing on the pitch at the Karaiskakis Stadium on Wednesday night.
We have to really give everything so that we can achieve this and get through to the next round.
We’re not looking at that [getting knocked out]. We have the quality to beat them and our goal is not to think about going out of the competition.
We have to be good in defence. If they score a goal then we have to score three goals, but we know that we can score goals. We know that we have a lot of quality up front, but our goal is to go into half-time ahead and then we will know that everything is possible.
