Bayern Munich winger Arjen Robben has claimed he would rather play Leicester than Arsenal in the last 16 of the Champions League this year.
Robben and his Bayern teammates hostthe Gunners on Wednesday night, for what will be the fourth pairing between the two in the lastfive years.
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Andthe Dutch trickster has conceded heis a little bored of playing Wenger's men and would rather face the reigningEnglish champions.
"I prefer to play Leicester," he told the Independent."That's different¦not easier, or more difficult, just different.
"If you have the choice, yeah. It was not this time ˜Let's get Arsenalagain'. I like, as a footballer, to play another team who we've never played before."
Although what Robben failed to mention was the glaringly obvious fact that Arsenal are 13 places and 29 points better off than Leicesterthis season.
Bayern knocked Arsenalout of the competition atthis stage in 2013 and 2014, so Gunners fans are fully aware of the threat caused by the German champions.
Even more dauntingly for Wenger's men, Bayern have qualified for the quarter finals in each of the last five seasons.
Yet despite that, the team from Bavaria haven't won Europe's elite competitionsince 2013, and Robben admits the current Bayern side are running out of time to win the tournament again.
"We won it in 2013 and we've got some older players “ Philipp Lahm, Franck Ribery, Xabi Alonso “ so it's like we don't have a lot more chances anymore," he conceded.
"It's not like we have five, six more years left. So if we are in good shape as a team and in the best condition then we can beat any team in Europe so that, of course, is the target.�