Coach Arteta made a shocking statement after Arsenal's loss

TPO - Arsenal lost both times to PSG to accept being stopped in the Champions League semi-finals. But coach Mikel Arteta made a statement implying that his team played better.

Coach Mikel Arteta claimed that Arsenal had put on the necessary pressure, PSG only survived thanks to their goalkeeper's good performance. "Congratulations to PSG, but I'm proud of Arsenal. After 20 minutes, the score should have been 3-0 in our favor," said coach Mikel Arteta.

"The best player on PSG's side after two games is goalkeeper Donnarumma. It's about details and efficiency in different areas. Today, we played better and deserved to come away with a better result.

We created chances that would normally lead to goals. But you have to take into account what the opponents do. Their goalkeeper won not just today, but both games. You need that to win. At one end of the goal, someone has to do something special and the PSG goalkeeper did it."

Odegaard had a threat to PSG's goal

Arteta is right. In the early stages of the second leg of the semi-final, Donnarumma continued to show his talent for saving goals. He prevented Martinelli and Odegaard from scoring. In both semi-final matches against Arsenal, Donnarumma only had to pick the ball out of the net once while making 9 saves for his team. He was the best player in the first leg.

But saying that PSG would have lost 0-3 without Donnarumma is an emotional and biased statement from Arteta. In fact, despite having more shots, Arsenal's danger was not as high. In the match against PSG this morning, they only played well in the first half.

After a stormy start without any results, Arsenal lost their momentum and became unsteady, leading to a goal in the 27th minute. The following time witnessed the weakness of this team. They only scored a consolation goal in the 76th minute thanks to a slip by a PSG defender.

The lack of stability, sharpness and courage in decisive situations is the reason why Arsenal failed. Because not only in the Champions League, they repeated that in the Premier League, FA Cup and League Cup.

Dang Lai

Source: https://tienphong.vn/hlv-arteta-phat-bieu-soc-sau-tran-thua-cua-arsenal-post1740325.tpo