Mikel Arteta believes that no team in the Champions League has reached Arsenal standards this season after the Gunners detached from the competition within the final of the final of a hair.
Arsenal could not organize an iconic European return against Paris Saint-Germain when the Parisians stayed 2-1 semifinal victors in the French capital, carrying its advantage added to 3-1 over both legs.
It could have bones a totally different result for Arsenal if they had managed to capitalize on early pressure, seeing that a handful of glorious Chans would begin within the first 20 minutes.
But after not being able to cancel the winner of Ousmane Dembele in the Emirates last week, the goals of Fabian Ruiz and Achraf Hakimi Tok the game almost out of view, with the 76 minutes of Bukayo Saka that failed to wake Anyamatic.
Arteta, who admitted that he would give a clean evaluation of the game when he is “a little fresher”, jumps to the defense of his players after seeing his European dreams crushed in the princes Parc des, and his side as the best of the competition.
“I don’t think there is a leg a better team [than Arsenal] In the competition of what I have seen, but we are out, “Arteta told TNT Sports.
“I am very proud of the players. They deserve a lot of credit for what they are doing in the context of the situation and the amount of injuries, probably the sausage that you could get here as a team.
“Come here with a different context and still do that, it gives me many positive aspects for the future, but tonight I am very upset.”
The rescue of PSG arrived Gianluigi Donnarumma, his imposing Italian cap that kept Arsenal when they knocked on the door of a possible return.
Following his heroicity or Villa Park with another sublime performance, he surprised Parc Des princes to deny Martin Odegaard after seven minutes, going down to bow the post after the Arsenal pattern connected to shoot through a multitude of players.
It was one of a variety of stellar salvages that prevented Arsenal from really threatening to spoil the PSG party, and Arteta believing that the Italian was in the heart of the fall on his side.
“When you look at the two games, his best player in the field has the goalkeeper, he has been the difference for them in the draw,” added Arteta. “We were very close, much closer than the results showed, but unfortunately we are out.
“After 20 minutes, I should have 3-0 bone. There is something extra that you must go on your way in the competition and did it. We were very close and for long periods of both games we were much better than them, but we are not there and that has to go.
“If we want to win this competition, we have to realize that. There are certain things that are about us. You should understand that we are out. That is not the way I see it.
“This competition is the boxes and in both boxes are the strikers and the goalkeepers and theirs was the best in both games.”
The PSG will now face Inter Milan in the final of the Champions League in Munich on May 31.
