This week in Europe shows that the premier league is lagging behind.

It has been an awful week for English teams in Europe with only Everton getting a positive result and the rest being embarrassing.

Now let's recap the results first Manchester city lost to Barcelona 2-1 at the either stadium. Actually not many people had high hopes for city and there performance was okay and at least they are still in the tie even though there chances look pretty slim to go through. Next was arsenal losing 3-1 to Monaco at the Emirates. When the draw was made everybody thought this would be easy for arsenal but Monaco played fantastically at the Emirates and arsenal showed there bad defending which leads them to be on the brink of elimination. Next to the Europa league and first spurs lost 2-0 to florentina in Florence. Spurs lacked a true offense in this game and showed why they are not ready for the champions league. And the final negative result was Liverpool losing on penalties to besiktas in Turkey in a pretty dismal performance.

Now people say the Barclays premier league is the most exciting league and with the that I agree with them however, when people say the top premier league teams are ahead of the other leagues apart from Chelsea they are far from it. The problem is that when these teams like man city and Liverpool try to play the offensive football they play every week in England and the team's from Europe are better defensively and more clinical in attack to punish our teams. To have a chance our teams need to learn that defensively they need to improve and may be they need to become more tactically astute to give themselves a chance.