Champions League: Win against Olympiakos can ease Arsenal’s league woes

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger wants his side to make amends for Saturday’s defeat by Chelsea when the Gunners take on Olympiakos in the Champions League tonight.

The north Londoners saw a successful start to the season abruptly halted at the weekend as they fell to a 2-1 defeat by Chelsea at the Emirates Stadium.

Arsenal sit seven points shy of the Barclays Premier League leaders as a result, but attention now turns to their Champions League campaign.

Wenger’s side takes on the Greek champions and the Frenchman wants to see an improved performance in the Group B encounter. “The players are focused and disappointed that we lost the game,” the Arsenal manager said yesterday. “They are still down, of course, but we have a Champions League game in front of us at home and we want to put things right. There were a lot of positives in that game as well. What was not good is easy to correct. I believe the championship is long, but we have to make sure the Champions League is long as well.”

Arsenal will be hoping to make it two wins from two Group B games, having returned from Montpellier with three points on matchday one. Olympiakos lost their opener at home to Schalke.