An emotional Mikel Arteta said that his players were in tears after being eliminated by Paris Saint-Germain but insisted that Arsenal had been the better team for most of their Champions League semi-final defeat.
Despite a promising start that saw Gianluigi Donnarumma produce a magnificent stop to deny Martin Ødegaard, goals from Fabián Ruiz and, after David Raya had saved a weak penalty from Vitinha, Achraf Hakimi gave Luis Enrique’s side a commanding 3-0 lead on aggregate. Bukayo Saka pulled one back and could have made things interesting in the last 10 minutes if he had converted another chance, having been denied earlier by another outstanding Donnarumma save.
