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Mesut Ozil: Arsenal do not fear Barcelona trio Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mesut Ozil says Arsenal do not fear Barcelona's front line</td></tr>
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MESUT OZIL says Arsenal will not fear Barcelona's prolific front three of Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar in the Champions League last 16.</div>
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<a href="http://newsnewsblog.blogspot.com/2015/12/arsenal-given-chance-of-champions.html" rel="tag" target="_blank">Arsenal paid the price in the draw</a> after they finished second to <a href="http://www.newsnewsblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Bayern%20Munich" rel="tag" target="_blank">Bayern Munich</a> in Group F.</div>
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<a href="http://www.newsnewsblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Arsenal" rel="tag" target="_blank">The Gunners</a> now face holders Barca for the third time in six years, having been knocked out by <a href="http://www.newsnewsblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Barcelona" rel="tag" target="_blank">the Catalan giants</a> on the previous two occasions.</div>
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<a href="http://www.newsnewsblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Lionel%20Messi" rel="tag" target="_blank">Messi</a>, <a href="http://www.newsnewsblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Neymar" rel="tag" target="_blank">Neymar</a> and <a href="http://www.newsnewsblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Luis%20Suarez" rel="tag" target="_blank">Suarez</a> have scored 52 goals between them in all competitions this term, and <a href="http://www.newsnewsblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Mesut%20Ozil" rel="tag" target="_blank">Ozil</a> is looking forward to the challenge of facing them in February and March.</div>
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"Barcelona are the hardest team in the world to play against," Ozil told <em>The Times</em>. "Barcelona are the best team at the moment in the world. We know that.</div>
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"But as a player I look forward to encounters like this. For me it is important to have these big games, it's nice to play against the best teams; to compete with them is a big opportunity for us.</div>
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"We respect Barcelona but they will respect us too. We are not afraid of Barcelona. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Luis Suarez, Neymar and Lionel Messi have scored 52 goals between them this season</td></tr>
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"We just need to play our game and we can beat them. There is no fear. In football everything's possible.</div>
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"It is a tough match but I don't think our defenders were afraid after the draw. It's a big opportunity for them to prove themselves against the best attack in the world, players like Suarez, Messi, Neymar.</div>
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"It will be an exciting game, with the possibility of lots of goals, but it's not like we are afraid."</div>

Mesut Ozil: Arsenal do not fear Barcelona trio Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar

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Steven Gerrard: How and why I had to stop Luis Suarez leaving Liverpool for Arsenal

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Steven Gerrard convinced Luis Suarez to stay another year</td></tr>
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STEVEN GERRARD reveals he was prepared to do anything to stop Luis Suarez joining Arsenal.<br />
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<a href="http://www.newsnewsblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Luis%20Suarez" target="_blank">Suarez</a> eventually left Anfield for <a href="http://www.newsnewsblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Barcelona" target="_blank">Barcelona</a> in a deal worth £75million.</div>
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But the year before he was pushing for a move to the Emirates after <a href="http://www.newsnewsblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Arsenal" target="_blank">Arsenal</a> had made a £40m+£1 bid.</div>
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And Gerrard said, as a <a href="http://www.newsnewsblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Liverpool" target="_blank">Liverpool</a> icon, he made it his business to make sure they didn't strengthen a rival by selling Suarez to Arsenal.</div>
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Gerrard met with the Uruguay striker to put him off and convinced him to stay put another season.</div>
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"Before the meeting you had Luis Suarez training on his own in the afternoon at Melwood," Gerrard told <em>BT Sport.</em> </div>
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"Brendan’s relationship with Luis had broken down.</div>
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"I don’t think it was Brendan’s fault. Luis wanted to move on, to play Champions’ League football and he had people in his ear and people around him forcing him to make moves that maybe he didn’t really wanna do.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Steven Gerrard and Luis Suarez after the Norwich game</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Luis Suarez and Steven Gerrard still have a good relationship</td></tr>
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"So I think it was just a case of being in the middle and trying to heal that relationship with him and Brendan and get him training with the first team again and just chatting to Luis and saying to him, is it Arsenal that you really want or do you want Real Madrid or Barca?</div>
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That was the jist of the conversation, because I knew, deep down that him and his family wanted Barcelona rather than Arsenal…</div>
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"For me and all the Liverpool supporters and Liverpool people it made no sense at all, him going to Arsenal because it would have made them an awful lot stronger.  </div>
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"When you lose someone like Luis Suarez it makes you an awful lot weaker, so for me, I was prepared to do anything it took to try and make that not happen."</div>
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<em><strong>Watch a 30 minute BT Sport special --- “Sport In Focus - Steven Gerrard" – on BT Sport 1 next Wednesday 30 September at 3pm.  Catch a preview on btsport.com from later tonight (24 Sept)</strong></em></div>

Steven Gerrard: How and why I had to stop Luis Suarez leaving Liverpool for Arsenal

Steven Gerrard convinced Luis Suarez to stay another year STEVEN GERRARD reveals he was prepared to do anything to stop Luis Suarez join...

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