What happened last week?
The Gunners have work to do while they are going to Paris tonight, but this season are not strangers for a large European road.
Ousmane Dembele opened the scoring early doors, but PSG did well enough to limit Arsenal during the rest of the game.
A few Martinelli opportunities and an offside -target of Mikel Merino were all the side of Arteta who could collect, they had hoped for more with home advantage behind them.
The game was even at first sight, with PSG 375 passes compared to 326 for Arsenal, but Les Parisiens did well to slow the momentum and bind the home crowd.
19 Clearets for PSG tells the story, they frustrated Arsenal frustrated in the last third.
Demolical injury decision
PSG coach Luis Enrique says that Ousmane Dembele will be fit to be opposed to Arsenal in the second stage of the Champions League tonight.
Goalcorer of the first leg Dembele was an fear of injury after he had been collected with a hamstring problem last week.
Enrique said yesterday: “He has been training with the group for two days. I have it at my disposal tomorrow.”
Piers Morgan on the road
Piers Morgan wore a hat “Make Arsenal Great Again” while he went to Paris on the Eurostar.
The 60-year-old is in the French capital for the Gunners’ Champions League semi -final second leg against Paris Saint-Germain.
Mikel ArtetaIt goes to France with a tough task, after he has lost last week’s first leg 1-0 in London.
Regardless of their shortage, Arsenal Fans, including Morgan Arrived in Paris that on 31 May of a place in the Champions League final in Munich in Munich in Munich.
Arsenal signs part 4
Every year the pope died, an English team has won the Champions League
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When Pope John Paul died in 1978, Nottingham Forest won the main prize in Europe.
When Pope John Paul II passed in 2005, Liverpool Remarkably, the trophy won the jaws of the defeat against AC Milan, and when Pope Benedict XVI died on New Year’s Eve 2022, Manchester City Won a first European title in May.
Could this be a sign for Arsenal?
Arsenal signs part 3
PSG has lost all their Champions League Semi-Final Home legs
The French side may have a home advantage, but that is perhaps not a good thing in view of their history in the last four in the Parc des Princes.
They were defeated by 1-0 Borussia Dortmund In last year’s semi in Paris and 2-1 by Manchester City in 2020/21.
They were defeated by AC Milan in their first semifinal appearance in 1995.
It must also be reminded that the Ligue 1 champions never have the Champions League Trophy, too.
This is also new territory for them.
Arsenal signs part 2
Strong on their journeys
The side of Arteta is unbeaten in all their last four road races on the continent.
In the past, the Gunners Real Madrid beat 2-1 in an exciting comeback in the Bernabeu, and before that they hit PSV 7-1 in the last 16.
In the competition phase they walked past Girona and hit Sporting Lisbon.
They have never won five on the spider on the road in Europe, but Arteta will claim that this still creates a chance for his players to write history.
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