The vacuum between the two legs of Arsenal’s Champions League quarter-final with Real Madrid is just another part of the challenge for Mikel Arteta’s players.
The noise about the probability of a Real comeback has begun and will only grow in volume in the build-up to Wednesday’s decider in Spain, focused on the holders’ ‘aura’ in the competition, their ‘DNA’, their invincibility, their previous improbable European escapes, as well as Arsenal’s own inexperience at this level.
