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Bayern completes Arsenal's Euro misery with another 5-1 win
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Arsenal's Alexis Sanchez (left) hugs with Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger during the Champions League round of 16 second leg soccer match between Arsenal and Bayern Munich at the Emirates Stadimum in London, Tuesday. (AP/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
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ith a second 5-1 rout in three weeks, Bayern Munich completed Arsenal's humiliation on a night of protests against manager Arsene Wenger.
Whether Wenger gets a chance to return to the Champions League next season remains unclear, as his latest contract will expire at the end of this season after 21 years at the club.
His team's heaviest-ever loss at the Emirates Stadium, completing a 10-2 aggregate loss on Tuesday as the German champions reached the quarterfinals, will only heighten demands by pockets of supporters for Wenger to go.
Asked if he will manage Arsenal again in the Champions League, Wenger replied: "I don't know ... I am here to talk about football not my future."
It is Wenger's failure to deliver Arsenal's first European Cup that has diminished his standing among fans who once lauded him as a coaching revolutionary.
For the seventh consecutive season, Arsenal has exited the Champions League in the Round of 16 and it has still only reached the final once, back in 2006.
Wenger deflected questions about his own future by reprimanding Tuesday's referee for what the Frenchman called "unexplainable and scandalous" decisions.
And there was no sympathy from Bayern, with the five-time European champions joining in the derision by tweeting: "What time is it? Yep, it's ten to!"
