{"id":437361,"date":"2011-06-07T10:11:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T10:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/07\/johan-djourou-not-qualifying-for-champions-league-would-be-unthinkable-for-arsenal\/"},"modified":"2011-06-07T10:11:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T10:11:00","slug":"johan-djourou-not-qualifying-for-champions-league-would-be-unthinkable-for-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/07\/johan-djourou-not-qualifying-for-champions-league-would-be-unthinkable-for-arsenal\/","title":{"rendered":"Johan Djourou: Not qualifying for Champions League would be unthinkable for Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Ross Dunbar<\/h3>\n<h4>7 Jun 2011 11:11:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"60.4545454545\">\n<div readability=\"15.1569767442\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Johan Djourou - Arsenal, (Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/112900\/112978_news.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Johan Djourou &#8211; Arsenal, (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span readability=\"19.5744680851\">Swiss defender <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/switzerland\/9719\/johan-djourou\">Johan Djourou<\/a> believes it would be &#8216;unthinkable&#8217; for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/94\/arsenal\">Arsenal<\/a> not to progress to the Uefa Champions League Group stages next season.<\/p>\n<p>The Gunners have been in this situation before when they qualified for the Champions League in 2009 having beaten Celtic in the play-off and Djourou believes they can do the same.<\/p>\n<p>He told <em>Sky Sports<\/em>: &#8220;We have to be in the Champions League &#8211; it would be unthinkable not to be.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to make sure we get through the play-off. We are quite capable of doing it &#8211; we have nothing to fear.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve been in this situation before against Celtic and it wasn&#8217;t ideal, but we got the job done.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know last season was not the best but we have a chance to put that behind us now and have some success.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Arsene Wenger&#8217;s side have been seeded in the draw for the &#8216;non-champions&#8217; section and could face some tough opposition such as Udinese, Dynamo Kiev or Rubin Kazan.<\/p>\n<p>The draw will be made on August 5 in Nyon.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>See more here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2914\/champions-league\/2011\/06\/07\/2521526\/johan-djourou-not-qualifying-for-champions-league-would-be\" title=\"Johan Djourou: Not qualifying for Champions League would be unthinkable for Arsenal\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Johan Djourou: Not qualifying for Champions League would be unthinkable for Arsenal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Ross Dunbar 7 Jun 2011 11:11:00 Johan Djourou &#8211; Arsenal, (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Swiss defender Johan Djourou believes it would be &#8216;unthinkable&#8217; for Arsenal not to progress to the Uefa Champions League Group stages next season. The Gunners have been in this situation before when they qualified for the Champions League in 2009 having beaten Celtic in the play-off and Djourou believes they can do the same<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":402096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-437361","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Johan Djourou: Not qualifying for Champions League would be unthinkable for Arsenal - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/07\/johan-djourou-not-qualifying-for-champions-league-would-be-unthinkable-for-arsenal\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Johan Djourou: Not qualifying for Champions League would be unthinkable for Arsenal - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Ross Dunbar 7 Jun 2011 11:11:00 Johan Djourou - Arsenal, (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Swiss defender Johan Djourou believes it would be &#039;unthinkable&#039; for Arsenal not to progress to the Uefa Champions League Group stages next season. 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