Paris Saint Germain relies on Gigio Donnarumma and a dembelè Ousmane recovered to complete the work that began in London and conquer the coveted Champions League final against Arsenal.
However, English are not to play the role of sacrificial victim. The Gunners coach, Mikel Arte, loads his in view of the race: “We are here to make history. A victory before being in the final. We speak on the field”, underlines at the press conference.
The protagonists of the first leg for the PSG were Donnarumma and Dembelé. The goalkeeper, often talked about in France but decisive in the first leg, and the striker, who became a goal machine, together with Kvicha Kvaratskhelia, are the most sharp weapons available to Luis Enrique to curb the Arsenal redemption attempts.
Ansa agency Champions: Arsenal finds Calafiori, trains with the group – football – ANSA.it The blue out for some time, difficult to be deployed tomorrow with PSG (ANSA) “It will be a balanced and difficult game, they want to reassemble but we deserve to be here and we will try to repeat the game of the first leg,” says the Spaniard remembering the 1-0 at the Emits Stadium, signed by Dembelè that, after the doubts for the injury accused in the final of the match, he was confirmed as owner.
Arsenal will be able to count this time on midfielder Thomas Partoy and the full -back Jurrien Timber and in the group left for Paris there was also Riccardo Calafiori, on his return after more than a month of stop and for this reason difficult to use in the hot 90 ‘minutes from inside and outside the Parco dei Principi. Having the player who has marked almost thirty goals so far is still important for the PSG, in what the coach foresees will be “a balanced game and in which we will not make calculations, facing it by trusting in our strengths. We will try to behave as we did from the first minute of the game in London, even if tomorrow it will be something else”.
To a question about who would prefer to face between Inter and Barcelona, he replies: “SUDO only to think of tomorrow’s game, let alone if I look at the final, for which I would just like one thing, that there is PSG. Then I have a past, an attachment to Barcelona, which will never vanish”, he concludes. The former Nerazzurri Achraf Hakimi promises “a special evening for all Parisians”, because “the team is very well and can’t wait to show them what it is capable. After the work done this year, we deserve the final and also the fans deserve it”. The gunners, however, appear determined: “We know what we can do. Winning the trophies means being at the right time, in the right place”, adds Arte. One of the most representative players of the Gunners echoes him, Declan Rice: “We are really sure that we can do something here in Paris – says the English midfielder – I think we should have full confidence, we certainly have the strength of the group. If we are the best version of ourselves we can do it”. “We get up on great occasions and we are ready to do it again!”, Rice concludes.
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