Mikel Arteta is looking to win against Real Madrid tonight
Mikel Arteta is looking to win against Real Madrid tonight and create history with the club. He is yet to manage a Semi-fInal and what better club to manage than his own. After the first leg heroics from his team, he is confident that Arsenal will get through the tie and will display the best piece of football that they have played until now.
The Spanish Manager is charged up as he thinks that it is the right stage if they have to start their European dominance and create a legacy in the tournament.
The Spanish Manager wants to start their European dominance
“I think it’s excitement [rather than nerves]. When we talk about creating that, it’s all about the history, we’ve never won the competition, and we are trying to do something consistently where we can start to dominate the European competition. We have to earn the right tomorrow to do that on the biggest stage. It doesn’t get any better than this, and I think we have a real opportunity for that too.”
“We have tried to repeat the opposite message [of the potential comeback]. So, in the brain of the players, where they have heard in the last 72 hours is something completely different, and we are very close to them, and hopefully that’s more powerful than anything else. But again, you have to be out there, you have to experience it, you have to feel it, and you have to go through it, and that’s what we have to do tomorrow.”
The Rice free-kicks were perfectly cooked and served in the 1st leg
The Rice free-kicks were perfectly cooked and served in the 1st leg, where the Englishman displayed his technical ability and took the world by storm when he buried the ball past Courtois twice.
“He(Declan Rice) has been practising his free-kicks, and if he can create any more of those moments, that would be amazing. It was a great moment. I think the third goal as well was beautiful to watch, a very collective goal. When you come to this stage, you’re going to have big team moments, big individual moments, and now it’s time to do it on the pitch.”
“I think he’s creating the story with us, and that moment is going to be in our history for a while, especially the way he did it, and the manner he did it, and the way he did it twice which is really rare. So it’s about creating more, and now I think he’s going to have the belief that he’s capable of delivering those kinds of moments more and more, and that’s something very important because if he believes more, it’s going to happen more often.”
