Arsenal Manager Mikel Arteta insisted that the one of his side Injury A record was to blame for her 1-0 defeat against Paris Saint-Germain in the semi-finals of the Champions League on Tuesday.
A Gunners-Outfit, which Gabriel Magalha’s Magalhaes, Riccardo Calafiori, Takehiro Tomiyasu, Jorginho, Kai Havertz and Gabriel Jesus was knocked down by Ousmane Dembeles’s fourth minute strike by Ousmane Dembelels, the Arsenal rose a huge mountain in Paris in Paris next week.
PSG now had a complete squad available to them. The entire group of Luis Enrique was only forced to deal with a total of seven effective injuries throughout the season, and Areta argued that the French outfit gave an obvious advantage.
“Today the margins were very small,” he said CBS sports After the game. “I think you started the game better for two reasons.
“The first one because they come out of our press after many passes and sequences. Then the individual quality decided the first goal after we had some problems, especially what we did after the revenue of the ball, which is also an important moment against them.
“And then the team got better, better and better. We have two massive chances, one-V-one chances. And at this level the goalkeepers and the boxes made the difference, and he definitely did so tonight.
“It’s clear [why PSG were better]. They are very consistent. They run with all players and the squad that is available from their best side until the end of the season in April. And when you come to April, it is very important to have this. “
With just one goal between the two sides, Areta was still able to book the Adamant Arsenal in the final of the Champions League with a positive result at Parc des Princes.
“We are at halftime and my message is exactly the same as it was 3-0 in the first leg of the quarter -finals,” he said. “We have to go to Paris and win the game and we are able to do it.
“If you want to win the Champions League final, you have to do something special and we have to do something special in Paris to be there. We still have many chances of being in this final.
“We will certainly make some adjustments, and depending on the context of the game, we will make more adjustments.
“And from there we become a lot of enthusiasm, with a lot of desire and with the feeling that we can have to do.”