Arsenal has to play in the first leg of her semi-final against Paris Saint-Germain without an influential midfielder Thomas Partey.
In everything that everyone was connected with Real Madrid, the Gunner’s finally crossed the way to the entire -Comback in the quarter -finals -whose scale was only achieved four times in the history of the Champions League -League.
The majority of the work was carried out in the Emirates stage in the first leg when two Quickfire Declan Rice-Freikicks Arsenal sent on the way to a 3-0 victory. They even expanded this overall lead in the second leg before Madrid used a dent and won 5: 1 with a total of 5: 1.
However, a blot came in the form of an unnecessary yellow card that Party showed that jumped into an angry confrontation after Antonio Rudiger Mikel Merino fouled. Gabriel Martinelli still had to put the icing on the cake for Arsenal on the cake, but Madrid still needed three goals in the last few minutes to enforce the extension and already transfer the draw effectively.
It was parties third yellow card in the Champions League this season, which is equally served in a one-game suspension, which is to be served for the next time. All three of these bookings were in his last three European appearances and used to find eight games in the campaign without one.
Party played every 180 minutes of the quarter -finals, so it is a blow to lose it for leg against PSG. Teammate Rice made these feelings very clear and insulted the Ghana international for an undoubtedly unnecessary booking.
Jorginho would be the automatic choice to replace the Ghanaer. But he first has to recover from a rib injury that was suffered with Brentford last weekend in the final phases of the Premier League tuning. Oleksandr Zinchenko would be the other alternative. The first PSG game is in 12 days.
On the positive side for Arsenal, rice is not suspended against the French giants. After showing two yellow cards in the Champions League this season before the start, a third was shown when he was punished in the box for an obvious foul on Kylian Mbappe.
A suspension would have triggered, but exhaustion for both rice and Arsenal came after a long Var check when the penalty decision was canceled and the yellow card was lifted. It means that Rice, who has completed the rest of the game without booking, can be exposed to PSG.
All yellow cards that the players wore have now been wiped off according to the UEFA rules, which make it much more difficult to be suspended for grand finale. The players can still be banned for the final, but even a yellow card in every semi -finals will not do it. Only a red card would mean a suspension.