To see the Arsenal squad at training this week, you wouldn’t necessarily think they were about to play for just a second Champions League final in their history. So many people at the club say they’ve just been more relaxed, and that’s actually been the case for every European game this season.
It has been a quirk of this otherwise arduously laboured campaign. There’s been so much focus on the Premier League and everything that great quest represents, that the greatest trophy in club football has almost been… overlooked.
