See what some Media houses said including our very own Thegoalmac, about Arsenal's loss to Dortmund,and do you agree that their performance was woeful?continue...
"Dor mats" was the headline in The Sun after goals from Ciro Immobile and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang secured Dortmund an opening win in Group D against the "woeful Gunners."
Thegoalmac's View:Calamitous and dreadful performance from Arsenal,especially Mesut Ozil and Slow motion Per Metersacker.
The Times lambasted the Gunners' "soft centre" while highlighting Dortmund's willingness to "put in the hard yards" compared to their opponents.
Oliver Kay, the newspaper's chief football correspondent, wrote: "Arsenal were not so much outplayed or outthought as overrun, unable to live with the intensity, speed and energy of a Dortmund team who typified an approach that [Jurgen] Klopp likens to 'heavy metal.'"
Arsene Wenger's side were "torn apart" and paid the price for "sloppy errors," according to the back page of The Daily Mail.
Martin Samuel wrote: "Arsenal have no business sitting beside the champions of Europe and the Goliaths of the strongest European leagues right now."
Bild awarded Ozil the lowest possible rating, while Der Spiegel praised BVB for their tactic of pressurising the opposition and exposing the World Cup winner's failure to protect his full-back.
"Whenever BVB won balls through their 'Gegenpressing' -- and that was the case every minute or so -- they aimed for one zone of the pitch: the upper left. Or, to put it another way. the area behind Mesut Ozil. His deficiencies tracking back were exposed, even more so because the young Hector Bellerin was his cover."
John Cross of the Mirror, meanwhile, commented on a "worrying surrender" as "Dortmund outclassed Arsenal in every respect as their pace, movement and power was far too much for Wenger's men to handle."
In the Daily Telegraph, football correspondent Henry Winter wrote: "For such an experienced manager, Wenger has some blind spots."
Die Welt was one of several papers to draw attention to a disappointing performance from Germany international Mesut Ozil.
"With high-speed football, Dortmund ran their opponents over," the paper said. "Arsenal's midfield, including Ozil, was nowhere to be seen."
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