Mikel Arteta credited a team-wide willingness to press as the secret “magic” behind Arsenal’s progress to the Champions League quarterfinals for a third season in succession.
Only once before have the Gunners ever reached this stage of Europe’s most prestigious club competition in three straight years. Between 2007–08 and 2009–10, Arsène Wenger led the north London outfit to a pair of quarterfinals on either side of a semifinal exit at the hands of Manchester United.
