Arsene Wenger today admitted his side is probably out of Europe following their 4-0 thrashing against Ac Milan. Ac Milan taking the lead through former Tottenham midfielder, Kevin Prince Boateng whose half volley came of the bar and in to give the Italian club a 1-0 advantage after just 15 minutes. Ac Milan extended their lead on 36 minutes when Zlatan Ibrahimovic's cross was headed in by Robinho. Arsenal's night got from bad worse soon after half time, Robinho given time and space to fire a low shot under Szczesny for 3-0. Arsenal’s backline were a mess with Johan Djourou bringing down Ibrahimovic in the area for a penalty. Ibrahimovic stepped to slot past Sczesny to complete rout and give Milan a real chance of advancing to the round of 16.
Zenit defeated Portugese side, Benfica in the first of leg of their tie 3-2. But Benfica took the lead when Zhevnov spilled a Cardozo free kick right into the path of Pereira for 1-0. It took just 7 minutes for the hosts to draw level Hubocan delivery met wonderfully by Shirikov whose strike beat Artur to make it 1-1. Zenit then played some tricky football to build up to the lead after 71 minutes. Kerzahkov back heeling to Bystrov whose ball towards Semak was turned in with back heel for 2-1. If Zenit head out in the next game they will have Zhevnov to blame with him failing to deal with a simple shot by Gaitan parrying it straight into the path of Cardozo who fired the equalizer for Benfica. Benfica might have thought they had stolen a draw from Russia until Shirkov exploited Artur by capitalizing on his poor goalkeeping, tucking the ball into an empty net. The Russian are far from sealing the deal and Benfica are not bad off going to the second leg with some pivotal away goals.
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