The Arsenal in-form young Walsh player, Aaron Ramsey, scored the only goal of the match in the second half of the game. It was a hard fought duel between the two teams.
Dortmund came into the match slightly favoured over their London opponents, to win the match because they won their last eight home Champions League matches and was also riding very high on their dismantling of FC Stuttgart 6 - 1 in the German League over the weekend.
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It is a very known fact in the football community, that Borussia Dortmund is a very dangerous team to play against, because of their high quality attackers.
Arsenal came to Dortmund on a high note too, even though they lost the first leg 2 - 1 in London. They arrived on a high note, because they are on top of the EPL, with five points lead to the second placed Chelsea, after 10 matches.
Also their emphatic 2 - 0 defeat of Liverpool over the weekend, was a big confidence booster for the team.
The Dortmund potent attackers led by their lethal Polish international striker, Robert Ledwandowski, put the visitors under pressure from the kickoff time, but the London club withstood them.
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Arsenal defence was very resolute throughout the match. All credit goes to the team as a whole for their wonderful performance, as they did what no other English team has ever done and that was to win Dortmund in the Westfalia Stadium.
Dortmund played good and created some chances, but was unable to convert to goals, mainly due to the exceptional performance of the Arsenal defence.
After the match Jurgen Klopp, the Dortmund coach said that, Arsenal can win the Champions League as long as they avoid Bayern Munchen. He said that, Arsenal is a young, healthy and good technical team and that they had just won a clever game.
''They could win it - as long as they don't play Bayern Munchen,'' he said.
''They are young, healthy and good technicians. They won a clever game tonight.''
''We created much more today up front, but they scored with their first chance of the match and we could not come back. This defeat could have been avoided.
''It's definitely going to get exciting from now on,'' Mr Klopp added.
Oh yes, he is correct, the group F is really going to be more exciting because either of the three top teams has a chance of qualifying. With two matches still remaining, Arsenal is on top of the table with 9 points, Napoli also has 9 points but Dortmund has 6 points. This is definitely a group to watch.
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