12/10/2007
作者：By Richard Clarke
翻译：xiali218319 （转载请注明译者及消息出自
www.arsenalcn.com ）
如果在冠军杯淘汰赛阶段碰到强队，温格会感到非常高兴。
在周三小组赛的最后一场比赛中，如果塞维利亚与布拉格斯拉维亚的比赛不出意外的话，阿森纳将以H组第二名出线。如果是小组亚军的话，他们极有可能会与一支欧洲劲旅碰面。
就目前情况来说，阿森纳将要面对巴塞罗那，波尔图，国际米兰，AC米兰或皇家马德里其中的一支球队。乍看起来是比较棘手的情况，如果以头名出线情况就大相径庭了，他们可能会碰到凯尔特人，流浪者，费内巴赫，罗马，罗森堡或奥林匹亚科斯中的一位。
然而，温格的想法却有些离经叛道。
“我认为对我们来说与劲旅交手并不是一件坏事，”他说。“起码顶级球会还是要比赛的。”
“去年，我们在与埃因霍温交手时出局，首循环他们打得畏首畏尾。到了第二场比赛他们只是要等待一个反击的机会。相比起上上个赛季与皇家马德里队的比赛，那场比赛我们打得很艰苦”
“也许当你碰上皇家马德里或巴塞罗那这样的球队，你会说“简直比登天还难了”但你只是面对一个不同的问题，因为你还是得上场比赛。”
“如果我们以小组第二出线的话，没人愿意和我们碰面。但话又说回来，我还是希望以头名出线。”
冠军杯淘汰赛比赛阶段的抽签仪式将会在12月21日周五格林尼治时间上午11点在瑞士的尼翁举行。
原文：
By Richard Clarke
Arsène Wenger will be perfectly happy to take on a major name in the Champions League Knockout Stage.
Arsenal will finish second in Group H unless they better Sevilla’s result at Slavia Prague in the final round of matches on Wednesday. If they are runners-up, they are far more likely to draw a European power.
As it stands, Arsenal would be facing either Barcelona, Porto, Inter, Milan or Real Madrid. On first sight it is a considerably tougher task than if they topped the group where the current situation would mean they would have either Celtic, Rangers, Fenerbahce, Roma, Rosenborg or Olympiakos.
However Wenger is not prepared to follow the accepted wisdom.
“I feel for us maybe it is not necessarily a disadvantage to play the big clubs,” he said. “At least the big clubs will play [football] as well.
“Last year, we lost against Eindhoven, who refused to play in the first leg. Then, in the second game, they just waited for one counter-attack. We struggled more in that game than we had done the season before against Real Madrid.
“Maybe when you play against Real Madrid or Barcelona, you say 'what a hell of a task' but then you face a different problem because they will come out and play.
“If we do finish second in the group, nobody would be especially keen to play against us. But having said that I still want to finish top.”
* The draw for the Knockout stage of the Champions League will take place on Friday, December 21 in Nyon, Switzerland at 11am UK time.
