Theo Walcott thinks teams in Europe will want to avoid Arsenal in the knockout stages of the UEFA Champions League.
Arsenal pulled off a spectacular win in Greece last night, beating Olympiacos 3-0, and qualified as runners-up from Group F with nine points.
Arsene Wenger has received praise over his side’s victory, and Walcott believes some of their escape from the group, which looked unlikely a couple of months ago, is down to a never say die attitude.
Speaking after Wednesday’s match, Walcott said it was an important victory.
It was very important that everyone was involved. The manager as well, he was key to our success and we have to give credit to him. The sort of attitude we had in the dressing room was ‘never give up’.
On other teams fearing Arsenal, Walcott admitted his side will be confident no matter what.
Europe will have seen that performance and I think a lot of teams will want to avoid us now after that. We have got the character, the strength in depth to actually make upsets. Whoever we get in the draw, we will be confident, raring to go and I’m sure we will get players fit as well. The squad is very good.
The draw to find their fate takes place on Monday 14th December at roughly 11am UK time.
Arsenal will face one of the following teams: Real Madrid, Barcelona, Zenit St Petersburg, Wolfsburg or Atletico Madrid.
