by Arsenal “Indeed, write your own story”, with the extra blooming, that is the only one Remontada Was Bukayo Saka. The striker overcame his early penalty to score the divine gate that ultimately removed the European Champions. Gabriel Martinelli then killed the dying belief that Real Madrid had to make a great night in a great victory. There was even the literal pretty hint of how Saka’s penalty was a lifted Panenka that had gone wrong, just so that the forward -forward -y over Thibaut Courtois raised in an even better way.
Arsenal has now risen for the third time in its history to the semi -finals of the Champions League. Perhaps it is reasonable to return to Paris, where you lost your only Champions League final in 2006 to strengthen this sense of the history building.
Faith will only grow because Madrid may now develop a complex over arsenal. They are the only club that Madrid played twice in the history of European competition and was not even struck.
This is the type of scale that Mikel Arteta can now speak about. Arsenal may not have the heights of their powderization of Madrid in the first leg, but this was almost as impressive in his own way. Areteta’s team that Madrid was so professionally Remontada. The European Champions never came nearby. You couldn’t. William Saliba’s atypical slip for Vinicius Junior stood even more because it was so rare in this game.
Arsenal made a number on Madrid. They also looked more than the sum of their parts. To put it blurred, they are much more team because obviously more players are needed. This is even more about the manager of the manager because he missed Gabriel Magalhaes at one end and any kind of striker on the other. With all Madrid’s experience and expensive talent in precisely this area, you missed a Martin Odegaard very much. He was the top priority and offered one of these individual achievements that are always essential parts of great team nights as they are. Jurrien Timber, Myles Lewis-Skelly and Jakub Kiwior were also up there, not to mention the overwhelming Saka.
However, nobody was up with Declan Rice. He offered a career exhibition not only to get up in an arena like the Bernabeu, but to be able to be able to be everywhere. Almost every time Madrid even made a suggestion that you could possibly work through a way, there was rice. He either only won the ball or symbolically, he won it and drove up the field with the ball. This was Captain Stuff, who was reminiscent of Patrick Vieira or Roy Keane.
And to think that Madrid has some of her most energetic talents there. That could be one of the problems.
Madrid has the fastest attack in world football where exactly the names can be afraid, but there is an obvious problem with it. You currently don’t have the other players to maximize them. The forward line can move quickly, but it cannot really move with a lot of variety.
There is no one who leads the piece. It made the Tifo before the game of a desired figure that played chess all the ironic. Madrid simply had no kind of grand master who moved the pieces. You can really see how important both Toni Kroos and Luka Modric were together for their entire era of the Champions League. They imposed a style and more sophisticated game patterns. Without her repeated Madrid – or at least without first -class Modric – the same pattern. The ball was played far so that one of Vinicius JR or Rodrygo in Arsenals ran out of full defenders just to leave space.
The weapon that seemed to rely the most was psychology and the idea of what could happen when the goal could happen. When they finally did it, Arsenal had already got one himself, and it was to be described that they had to rely on the side of Areta, who were suddenly unusually casual.
It wasn’t like it was from the general game. Saliba did not see Vinicius come out of a somewhat strange moment, and the Brazilian had to force it into an empty network.
The strike of the 67th minute was a rare moment when arsenal gave them something. The entire backline had been insured and kept its positioning so well, and offered considerable interventions if necessary. Catching a kiwiere when the second half was built was excellent and, we dare, rice -like.
However, the problem was not only where Madrid’s attack moved. So they moved. Her running statistics were a big topic before the game when it turned out that Arsenal had clocked 14 km more in the first leg. Bellingham even spoke about the need to increase it and to put on what words were, which were somewhat undermined by actions. When Odegaard usually slid past the midfielder in the first half, Bellingham didn’t hunt.
Later, when Arsenal started building the piece that finally led to Saka’s gate, the star trio was walking in front. You could say that they were waiting to use their speed in the most effective way. Except without proper modern pressing at this level, you will probably wait.
That was almost her whole game. A description of the Bernabeu on such nights is a “torture chamber”, and almost the worst is the wait, the structure. This is how the fascinating psychology works. It was just as good that Arteta apparently made his research over it and his team had drilled so well.
For less focused teams, a 3-0 may not feel like a 3-0 if Vinicius runs in their destination in their destination. It is not just the risk of a goal. It is the danger of what a goal would mean. It wouldn’t just be 1-0, it would be less with the wave building.
That’s how it happens. There is a ebb and flows on these occasions, with each train has a greater influence on what follows. That is what Arsenal was so impressive, which was all the more impressive in view of the early emotional swing with the punishments.
Arsenal had a slightly tetchy opening, with rice often having to drive the ball out of defense. They were then offered the opportunity not only to calm their nerves, but to calm the tie. Mikel Merino was pulled down by Raul Ascio and Arsenal received a punishment after a delayed Var check. It was very much not a decision in the house city, but it was impossible not to ask yourself whether the circumstances of Saka’s decision had to be effective. He chose a Panenka to undermine her value by going to the side. Courtois Palmed it away.
It would have been easy for Arsenal to give some intrusive thoughts, especially with the knowledge of how these things could go. That’s how it starts. It then took up when Madrid received an even softer punishment for a decisive rice thrust on Mbappe.
They needed it because they had created so little. David Raya’s most frenetic activity was to run his goalkeeper coach over Var during the long waiting. Finally, the punishment raised.
And after that Madrid had so little. Arsenal had more to give, and Martinelli put the crown on it.
It is the type of performance that will only create the belief in the greatest trophy of everyone in the cabinet. A dangerous Paris Saint-Germain comes first, but that can wait. This should be enjoyed.
This is exactly what Areteta wanted in every respect.
