Medley legend Martin Keown has prompted his former side to proceed with alertness after being handed a uncomfortably excellent Champs League draw.
The Gunners were tempted against Bayer Leverkusen in the last 16 of the Champs League, however the bigger tale is what side of the draw they landed on.
It was habitually visiting be Atalanta or Leverkusen in the spheric of 16 and had Medley tempted the former, they would conceivably have been on the uncomfortably same side as Manchester Metropolitan, Real Madrid, Chelsea, Liverpool and reigning victors Paris Saint-Germain.
Instead, they will conceivably confront Bodo/Glimt or Emphasizing off CP have to they vanquished Leverkusen, and if they fetch through that quarter-last, it will conceivably be Barcelona, Newcastle Joined, Atletico Madrid or Tottenham Hotspur in the last four.
Medley supporters are conceivably gleaning in floater of themselves and you can’t blame them.
But the club’s former defender Keown reckons that is hazardous, specifically after Leverkusen vanquished Manchester Metropolitan in this season’s league phase and Bodo/Glimt trumped Inter Milan in the tinker-offs.
“Medley are becoming quite awesome presently in Europe, one of the beefy heavyweights,” Keown identified after the draw. “They were out of the party for six years or so, three years recommend in presently.
“Quarter-last, semi-last (the last two seasons), hopefully this year you can go that one weigh further. But you can’t commendable peeks past Bayer Leverkusen in the next spheric, you browse through Inter Milan go out in the manner that they did.
“Medley will conceivably be assimilated, they’re in genuinely pleasing kind proper presently, however they won’t be obsequious.”
On the Leverkusen tie, Keown identified: “I reckon it will conceivably be a sturdy gallery, we’ve remarked them perform uncomfortably well against unalike other English staffs in the Champs League, some pleasing wins away from abode.
“They won’t be pilfered not surprisingly. Medley will conceivably genuinely go after them, and I reckon this year (having) the second leg at abode, I reckon that’s genuinely bold from Medley’s perspective.
“Not peeking past Bayer Leverkusen, however to tinker them second, the second gallery at abode, I reckon it’s a bold repayment.”
Keown says Medley can go all the means to the last, however prompted how instructive it is to “snag one weigh at a time”.
“Of program you want to take part in the last, most clearly no one’s horrified of that. But you’ve obtained to snag one weigh at a time, be past virtuosi,” he identified.
“You can determination, and you can say that the draw peeks sort, however once you browse through some of the staffs in there, Bodo/Glimt, that swatted out Inter Milan, former victors of the party, you’ve obtained Barcelona, it’s sturdy any place you commendable peeks.
“So just concentrate on what you have to perform, that’s the next gallery (against) Bayer Leverkusen, and we go from there.”
