This Wednesday at 9pm (CET), Paris Saint-Germain take on Arsenal at the Parc des Princes in the second leg of their Champions League 2024-2025 semi-final (0-1 win in the first leg). In a press conference, Mikel Artera, coach of the Gunners, spoke about the match and the Parisian opponent.
Arteta “We’re going to play in the most beautiful city in the world”.
“On tomorrow’s game
We’ll be playing in the most beautiful city in the world, against a very fine opponent. Tomorrow, we have a chance to confirm our place in the final. Tomorrow, we’re going to have to stop talking and concentrate on playing. We’ll have to do what we did in the first leg, only better.
We were in trouble for the first 15 minutes, but we got back into the game. Tomorrow, we know exactly what we have to do. To reach the Champions League final, we’ll have to do something exceptional, we know that.
PSG’s return fixtures
It depends. The first match showed us what we have to do, and now we’re here, we’re going to do it.
Arteta “Paris is a team with an incredible history”.
Arsenal’s experience this season
We need to draw on our recent experience, especially against Madrid. They talked a lot, but we did what we had to do. We’ll have to do the same tomorrow.
The referee
We always take a look at the referee’s personality, to see what we can expect the next day.
Arteta, former PSG player
It’s an incredible atmosphere. Paris is a team with an incredible history, I have very good memories here and I was lucky enough to play at the Parc des Princes”, comments relayed by 90 min.
PSG go into the second leg with a slight advantage at Emirates Stadium, but qualification is far from assured. The complicated first fifteen minutes of the first leg have taught them a lesson: they will have to be faultless from the outset if they are to have any hope of reaching the second Champions League final in the club’s history, whether it be for Arsenal, who must score, or PSG, who must not miss out.
Mikel Arteta, who played for PSG in the early 2000s, returns to the Parc des Princes as coach of the Gunners. His team, deprived of the Premier League title, are staking their season on the Champions League and are dreaming of a first final since 2006.
The pressure will be maximum, and the stakes colossal: the Parc des Princes is expecting an exceptional match, in which every detail will count, from the referee’s handling to the ability of the leaders to be present at key moments.
