The best Arsenal team in the UCL team this season -arteta

Mikel Arteta insists that there has not been a better team than arsenal in the Champions League this season despite the departure of the Gunners in the semifinals.

Arteta saw her team lose 2-1 against Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday night to complete an aggregate departure of 3-1 to the Ligue 1 team, which advances to the Munich final to face Inter Milan at the end of this month.

The Gunners were 1-0 from the first leg, but despite making a forceful beginning in the second and seeing Gianluigi Donnarumma to make excellent salvages of Gabriel Martinelli and Martin Odeegaard, they finally fell short against the side of Luis Enrique.

Fabian Ruiz criticized the PSG at night against the Gunners, and after David Raya had saved a vitinha penalty, Achraf Hakimi effectively solved the tie with a good attack. Bukayo Saka withdrew one for the gunners, but were finally well beaten.

Despite the loss, Arteta remained of a bullish humor. He told TNT Sports: “First congratulations to the PSG for reaching the final. The evaluation I will do when it is a little cooler.

“When you look at the two games, his best player in the field has been the goalkeeper, he has been the difference for them in the draw. We were very close, much closer than the result showed, but unfortunately we are out. I am very proud of the players.

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“After 20 minutes it should have been 3-0. There is something extra that you must go on your way in the competition and did not. We were very close and for long periods of both games we were much better than them, but we are not there and that has to hurt.

“If we want to win this competition, we have to realize that. There are certain things that are in us. You should not be understanding that we are out. So it is not the way I see it.”

When he was pressed if he thought that his team could have won the competition, Arteta added: “100 percent. I don’t think there has been a better team [than Arsenal ] In the competition of what I have seen, but we are out. This competition is about the boxes and in both boxes are the Strikers and the goalkeepers and theirs was the best in both games.

“I am very proud of the players. They deserve a lot of credit for what they are doing in the context of the situation and the number of injuries, probably the worst state that you could get here as a team. To come here with a different context and still do that, it gives me many positive for the future, but tonight I am very upset.”

Mirror