‘Arsenal are capable of it’ – Laurens on Gunners’ chances in Parispublished at 07:42 British Summer Time
Arsenal 0-1 Paris St-Germain
Julien Laurens
European football expert on BBC Radio 5 Live
This is part of your learning curve as a young team and as a young manager, which Mikel Arteta still is.
That doesn’t mean that Arsenal can’t go to Paris and qualify, but I probably think they will be better the next time they are in this position in the semi-final, whether that is next season or whenever, for what happened tonight and what will happen in Paris.
But, for example, PSG did that when going to Liverpool [turning around a first-leg deficit to beat them at Anfield and progress to the quarter-finals].
Of course they believed before, but not many other people believed, not even me, that they could go to Anfield and do that there.
So Arsenal can go to the Parc des Princes next week. They will have to put in their best performance of the season, there is no doubt. Everybody will have to be at their best – the coaching, the mentality, individually, collectively – they will have to put in their best performance, but I think they are capable of it.
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