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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Barry Glendenning

Mikel Arteta’s revisionism and the end of the road for Arsenal

Mikel Arteta with Martin Ødegaard after their exit to PSG
Mikel Arteta with Martin Ødegaard after their exit to PSG. Photograph: David Price/Arsenal FC/Getty Images

JUST WIN (BABY)

Having had time to reflect on Arsenal’s semi-final defeat at the hands of Paris Saint-Germain in Bigger Cup, Football Daily has arrived at the conclusion that there are a couple of ways to frame the exit of Mikel Arteta’s side. The first is to say that, despite being plagued by long-term knack to key personnel and endlessly persecuted by referees at home and abroad, they played extremely well for long periods across both legs and were perhaps unlucky to come up against a mighty state-owned behemoth. A mighty state-owned behemoth that is backed by limitless financial resources and is able to field a goalkeeper who is in the form of his life, and who had his task made a little easier by the fact that Arsenal were forced to field a side with no recognised centre-forward in both matches. Yes, that sounds fair.

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