A Mikel Arteta Frustrated thinks that Arsenal was the best team in the Champions League this season despite their release at Paris Saint-Germain in the semi-finals.
The European dream of Arsenal was finished by the goals of Fabian Ruiz and Achraf Hakimi, which earned Paris Saint-Germain in Paris Saint-Germain in the evening and a final date of the Champions League with Inter Milan.
The French champions were under immediate pressure while Declan Rice passed under a jurin wooden cross to remove Target, launching a frantic five -minute spell which required Gianluigi Donnarumma to eliminate exceptional stops to prevent Martin Odegaard and Gabriel Martinelli. The start did not come and Arsenal was still playing at that time.
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Gary Cotterill de Sky Sports is joined by the independent Miguel Delaney while they react at the end of the Arsenal Champions League after the semi-final defeat against PSG and discuss the place where it leaves the club in the future.
Arteta thinks that his team deserved to make the final according to both legs and underlined the performances of Donnarumma as the key factor in their failure to do so.
“I don’t think there was a better team in the competition of what I saw,” said Arteta TNT SPORTS.
“But we came out. We deserve much more, but this competition concerns the boxes, the strikings most of the time and the goalkeeper and the their best player in the two games.
“I am so proud of the boys, they deserve a lot of credit for what they do and the amount of injuries. We arrived here in the worst state. You have to arrive with everyone in good shape and available with a lot of minutes. They have had a week. We came here in a different context. It gives me a lot of positivity for the future.”
Donnarumma made eight stops and Arsenal created 4.77 goals expected on both legs, but found only the net only as an inability to be clinical with their finish is expensive.
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Jay Bothroyd gives his reaction when Arsenal gets out of the Champions League after losing 3-1 on the aggregates against PSG.
And later during his press conference when he was asked if he thought that the best team had lost, he added: “Yes, and I say that because they (PSG) just told me. Today, I see how my players wanted it because they were in tears.
“We deserve much more. When you analyze the two games, the MVP (most useful player), was their goalkeeper.
“The Champions League is decided in the boxes, and it earned them the game. The result should have been very different. It gives me so much pride, but at the same time, I am so upset and so bored that we have not managed to do it.”
‘I don’t agree at all’
Enrique was invited to respond to Arteta’s assertion that PSG had suggested that the Gunners were the best team on two legs.
“The League of Farmers, right? We are the League of Farmers,” joked Luis Enrique, referring to the French League 1 during the word to TNT SPORTS. “But that’s good. We appreciate the result and compliments of everyone speaking of our team – our mentality, how we play. It’s good.
“I don’t agree at all. Mikel Arteta is a great friend, but I don’t agree at all.
“They played intelligently, but in both legs, we scored more than them and it is the most important thing in football. Arsenal played a big match, and we suffered, but we deserved to go to the final.”
Arteta revived Arsenal’s fortune on the national and European scene with its first appearance in the semi-final in the Champions League in 16 years. But his five -year -old mandate gave only one trophy – their triumph of the FA Cup 2020.
The Gunners have failed to progress from each of their last four semi-finals of the main Cup: the Europa 2020-2021 league, the League 2021-22 Cup, the League 2024-25 League Cup and the Champions League 2024-25.
Fabian Ruiz of famous PSG after scoring the goal of opening his team in the second stage
And when they were asked if he feared that his current star harvest did not have what to win trophies, Arteta replied: “Well, it depends. Two years ago, nobody thought that we could qualify for the Champions League, or even think that we could finish second and compete in the League. And the number of points that we have scored.
“The reality is that you need something to raise and get this trophy, and the disappointment is that we don’t have it.
“But we have the best example in the locker room of PSG with Marquinhos. Eleven times, he tried to win the Champions League. Eleven times and see if they win the final. You have to go up and down.
“So we have to look in the mirror someone like that with this trajectory and if you want to be in sport and want to do competitions for trophies, you would better face this.”
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Nick Wright of Sky Sports analyzes Arsenal’s defeat on two legs against PSG in the Champions League and identifies the areas where they failed the French club.
Wenger: PSG was better
Former Director of Arsenal, Arsene Wenger, said:
“Overall in two games, you would say they (PSG) were better than Arsenal, were more likely and were never really in danger.”
Arteta arsenal at a crossroads – it’s time for the cream
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Sam Sports’ Sam Blitz:
When Mikel Arteta signed his new Arsenal contract in September, he was asked what his main objective is for the club. “To win,” he said. “It must be that. It must be this goal.”
Arsenal’s need to cross this next step followed Arteta all season, one where Spaniard revealed that he was in the fourth part of a five -step plan for this club – the last of which is to “create a dynasty” by winning trophies.
“It generates a belief,” he said Sky Sports Later in the season. “The experience of having succeeded helps you with others.”
Arteta said these words last December, five years after being appointed director of Arsenal. But although there are dreams of a dynasty, the reality is that he has now spent five years without a trophy. Only the FA Cup, six months after the start of its mandate, was acquired – and even it was a trophy that came out of blue.
The last blow from the Arteta trophy hunting came to PSG and the Parc des Princes, the same place where the professional player of Arteta took off. Among his teammates, Mauricio Pochettino – and parallels between the two are now underway.
The Tottenham Hotspur Pochettino team was attractive and ambitious, with several reigning races ending in second and third place, plus a final appearance of the Champions League. But this team of Spurs has become sadly famous for not winning anything. Does Arteta team cover the risk of remembering in a similar vein?
Read Sam Blitz’s analysis of the next step for Arsenal after another season without trophy