Thursday night’s Europa League elimination by Atletico Madrid is just the latest in a long line of continental disappointments for the Arsenal boss.
On Tuesday night, Real Madrid reached the final of the Champions League for the third year in a row and yet the post-match debate centered on whether Zinedine Zidane’s side were the luckiest in world football.
Certainly, the common consensus had been that Los Blancos had pulled off another great escape, having been second best in both legs of their 4-3 aggregate win over Bayern Munich, just a few weeks after scraping past Juventus in the quarter-finals with a controversial injury-time penalty.
However, there is no denying that Real always seem to find a way to win , particularly in Europe. How Arsene Wenger would have loved to discover the secret of Madrid’s success.