An irritated Mikel artell believes Arsenal has been the best team in the Champions League this season despite their appearance in Paris Saint-Germain in the semifinals.
Arsenal’s European Dreamndrra was completed with goals by Fabian Ruiz and Achraf Hakimi, who won Paris Saint-Germain a 2-1 win overnight and a last date of the Champions League with Inter Milan.
The French champions were under immediate pressure while Declan Rice took under a cross-ranking cross to go out of the target, starting a frantic five-minute magic required by Gianluigi Donnarumma to withdraw extraordinary stops to keep Martin Odegaard and Gabriel Martinelli. Early no purpose came and Arsenal was always playing caught by that point.
Gunners have failed to progress from each of their last four Grand Cup semifinals (2020-21 Europa League, 2021-22 League Cup, 2024-25 League Cup, 2024-25 Champions League).
Artisa believes his team deserved to make the final based on both legs with and welcomed Arsenal as the best team in the competition despite the exit.
“I don’t think there was a better team in the form of the competition what I have seen,” Artesa said Tnt sports.
“But we’re out. We deserved much more, but this competition is about the boxes, the attackers most of the time and the goalkeeper and their were the best player in both matches.
“I am very proud of the boys, they deserve a lot of credit for what they are doing and the amount of injuries. We arrived here in the worst state. You have to get here with all suitable and available for many minutes. They had a week. We came here in another context. This gives me a lot of positivity for the future.”
Donnarumma made eight savings and Arsenal created expected goals 4.77 worth both legs, but only found the net once as an inability to be clinical with their completion cost them loved ones.
The arts added: “The appreciation I will do when I am a little cooler, but the feeling I get from their bench was that we were much better than them.
“On both feet the best player on the field was their goalkeeper – he made a change in tie. We were very close to the results shown, but unfortunately we are out.
“I am bored, it has to hurt. If we want to win this competition and we must understand that. Just understanding that we are out is not as I see it.”
