by Arsenal stormed for a breathtaking 3-0 victory against the Champions League owner Real Madrid when Declan Rices Master kick master class let the Gunners move from a place in the semi-finals.
In the second half of the quarter -finals, Rice scored two majestic freedom colleagues in the Emirates stage.
Mikel Merino added Arsenal’s third goal before Real’s Eduardo Camavavinga was sent away from the ball in the last minutes to leave the Spanish giants disordered.
Rice’s brilliance cannot be understood, with the real guard Thibaut Courtois – usually so inspired in the nights of the Champions League – is able to get close to the Thunderbolt of the English midfielder.
Incredible, Rice had never achieved a free kick in his career before the first of his rockets reached the back of the real network.
It was no longer deserved as an arsenal for a ripe performance that was real in the ruthless style with injuries.
The men of Mikel Areta will travel to the Bernabeu on April 16 as a fixed favorite to come to a semi-finals against Paris Saint-Germain or Aston Villa who meet in their quarter-finals on Wednesday.
The Gunners have not reached the semi -finals of the Champions League since 2009, but this goal is now after an evening that is one of the most memorable in the history of the club.
Areta had described the collision with Real as the “biggest night” of his career when he asked his players to write their own story by winning Arsenal’s first Champions League crown.
They rose so successfully to the challenge that even Arteta could have been surprised.
The leaders of the Arsenal Trail Premier League Liverpool with 11 points and look determined to become a second place for a third season in a row.
But the Champions League now offers Areteta real hope for a first large trophy since the FA Cup 2020, provided you can end the job in Madrid next week.
Last season of Bayern Munich, Arsenal’s only Champions League final appearance against Barcelona was beaten in 2006-a run, which included a last 16 victory against Real.
In the way, it was an imaginary defeat when the 15-time European champions were punished for the defects that they had beaten ten times in all competitions this season when they remained four points behind the leaders of La Liga, Barcelona.
– Arsenal in the dreamland –
Jew Bellingham was mostly anonymous and Kylian Mbappe and Vinicius Junior only exhibited sporadic threats after a promising start.
Vinicius Junior threatened in the opening phase and rolled together far after Mbappe had selected him in the Arsenal area.
Mbappe’s electric pace made him free from the Arsenal defense in a further lightning robbery, but the France star shot directly on David Raya.
Arsenal showed no signs of shaking off Reals with stars, and Rice’s highly towering header by Jurrien Timbers Kreuz forced a good rescue in front of Thibaut Courtois, who stayed away from the rebound from the rebound.
Mbappe stormed from an acute angle into the side net, but real in the second half could not keep up in the intensity of Arsenal, and the Gunners were rightly taken over in the 58th minute.
Rice appeared 25 meters from the goal and suggested a sublime free kick around the real wall and into the back corner.
It was a breathtaking strike that even the former real defender and deputy Maestro Roberto Carlos, on which the Emirates stands from observed, would have been proud.
Arsenal almost again struck in a remarkable sequence in which Courtois Save Martinelli’s explosion in front of Merino’s shot from the rebound from the line by David Alaba and Courtois was rejected.
Real was on the ropes and rice ended up in the 70th minute another devastating blow, which whipped an unstoppable free kick into the upper corner from 20 meters when Courtois grabbed in the air.
When the ecstatic arsenal fans “Declan Rice, we shouted at him” shouted “, the reference to his fee of £ 105 million did not even seem to be an exaggeration.
Arsenal was not yet finished and Merino brought Arsenal five minutes later with a clinical departure from 12 meters in Dreamland when the Emirates turned into a roile red sea of celebrations.
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