Chief of Arsenal Mikel Arteta welcomes the historic Night of the champions for the artillery at PSV Eindhoven – “I knew that” | | Football news
Mikel Arteta said that he knew that Arsenal’s goal for punching PSV Eindhoven came as he greeted the historic and incredible night for his players who only secured their place in the Champions League quarterfinals.
Double Martin Odegaard and individual strikes by Jurrien Timber, Ethan Nwneri, Mikel Merino, Leandro Trossard and Riccardo Calafiori earned Arsenal who hit a 7-1 triumph – their biggest victory in the Champions League.
This was marked by an extraordinary turn in Fortunes for the previously shy side of Artea, who arrived in the Netherlands with three gaps from the last four exit, and their premier Dream League title in UP in Smoke.
But when asked if he could ever predict such a result, Arthta said with a smile, “I knew he was coming.
“It’s the beauty of football. No one in this room, if I gave you an envelope and said,” Can you predict what happens and who will score? “He would have predicted that.
“We will enjoy it because it was a very impressive performance and an amazing result. We deserve it and I’ll take it. We were exceptional.”
Arteta of History Creation: We want to achieve more
After a 1-0 defeat of West Ham and without fuel against Nottingham Forest in the league, leaving 13 points in Liverpool, Arsenal’s campaign was at risk of ejection.
However, the people of Arteta responded to Timber’s before the match to change the narrative with an electric performance on the European stage-downstream, against the extremely light PSV side-how they would put them on the brink of the last eight games with Real Madrid or Atletico Madrid.
Without a recognized striker, Timber opened the scoring for Gunners after 18 minutes before the Nwaner teenager and the makeshift striker Merino extended the advantage of Arsenal within half an hour.
Noa Lang gave PSV hope from a penalty kick just to achieve Odegaard 60 seconds after restarting, and Trossard added a fifth minute later.
Odegaard doubled his sum of the remaining 17 minutes, and Calafiori completed the devastating path – which surpassed Arsenal’s 5-1 victory against Inter Milan 2003 as the biggest club away from the northern London in the Champions League – in the final moments.
Commenting on the record night of his part, Arthtea continued: “This is something that has not been done in the history of the club, so it is great to be a part of it. But as a team we want to achieve many other things that are far more important.
“It is very significant and in a strong position to pass to the next round. And that is reality. But in order to put down sights, we have to really succeed in very different. That means a lot, but that is not what we want.
“I am happiest because we are in a very strong position to go to the next round, where we want to be. But in London, she still has to work in London.”
The second leg, effectively now dead tire, will be held at the Emirates Stadium on Wednesday, March 12th, and Gunners is in an action in the Premier League against Manchester United at Old Trafford on Sunday, Live on Sky Sports.
Rice: We played this whole season
Midfielder Declan rice speaking Amazon Prime Sport::
“We were fluid, we had enthusiasm. We had a ride and hunger, these are the knockout rounds of the Champions League.
“But we have played this whole season. We talked about the narrative, but the players feel like we are going well. Sometimes we achieve five or six, sometimes we achieve two or three, sometimes we can lose for one.
“We should continue to push here as a team with a mentality and we did that.
“When they came back to make it 3-1, we could rest. But we tried and you saw it with the goals we scored in the second half. A massive appearance. Now nothing has been done at the home game. We’ll see what happens.”
Will Arsenal go to the end?
Sky Sports’ Jamie Carragher on CBS:
“Arsenal is never a team we have set up as potential winners, but there are many big teams that have already come out.
“One of the Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid are outside, PSG or Liverpool will disappear, and Arsenal is now guaranteed to be in the quarterfinals in April.
“The international break comes and then you may be back to Gabriel Martinelli, and Bukayo Saka is not too far away.
“Arsenal are very strong defensive, but can I provide Real Madrid or Atletico Madrid running for their money with these players back?
“For Mikel Arththa and the Arsenal team, there may have been a lack of confidence and there were feelings that the fans were dissatisfied, this result feels great that they are almost returning on the right path.
“What we have seen in the last few weeks is not Arsenal we have met in the last few years.
“This result only gives them an elevator over the next few weeks because it can still be played.”
‘Bay in class’
Tim Sherwood observation Sky Sports News::
“They didn’t have to worry about the goals, there was a bay in the class. They had to do it right, they fell silent. In Eindhoven the time of the carnival and they came to the party, but Arsenal soon whimpered them.
“It was amazing how they moved the ball and opened up. The movement was very good. Merino played as nine, I watched it carefully. If he didn’t touch the ball, he took the centers and made space for Rice and Odegaard to make late races.
“Nwaner, a small superstar, came into different positions. They just had too much for them and were really a class above. Without a recognized center, they had too much fiery forces.”
Analysis: Arsenal Enjoy Carnival
Sky Sports News’ Gail Davis At the Philips Stadium:
After spending almost every vigilant moment in the last few days, talking about Arsenal’s inability to score, they go out and put seven past PSVs.
There is a context about that, of course, and it was a terrible dam on the home side, truly awful, but Arsenal and Arththa will not worry.
Three goals in 13 minutes, 99 seconds between Arsenal’s fourth and fifth seizure of the momentum they created, and then survived Wobble shortly before halftime, would satisfy Arteta.
Odegaard would enjoy his twice a few months, Rice looked back at her best threatening, and Nwaneri was absolutely joy to look at a full flight – it seems that nothing would amaze this teenager and not afraid to shoot.
Artea was smart to pull Lewis -skelly out of shooting – he did so well this season, it would be sad to see that he was overshadowed by more disciplinary problems.
I worried about the game to fill the drama, spectacular and distorting the act of warming up the Eindhoven Carnival – no such problem.
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