Mikel Arteta has set out his plan for a way Arsenal can break a psychological block within the UEFA Champions League and remove Actual Madrid.
His facet stormed previous PSV Eindhoven within the final 16 to arrange 1 / 4 last showdown with the defending European champions.
Arteta led Arsenal to the Champions League quarter finals final season, in his competitors debut as a Gunners boss, and he’s decided to take the subsequent step.
With Arsenal’s probabilities of profitable the Premier League successfully already ended by Arne Slot’s Liverpool, Arteta’s season hangs on the incoming two video games in opposition to Carlo Ancelotti, and he’s prepared for the problem forward.
“The dream is to win, to win the massive trophies , and that’s what we’re aiming to do,” as per an unique interview with Diario AS.
“This membership hasn’t been within the Champions League quarter finals twice in 15 years, which is a very long time. And like that, there are a lot of different issues we’ve executed.
“However, we now have to create our personal historical past now, and meaning reaching these knockout levels, profitable them, and getting on into to the semi finals. That’s the subsequent step we now have to take.
“I really feel excited. I feel we’ve been drawn in opposition to the opponent we’re all most enthusiastic about, as a result of they’ve traditionally reigned supreme within the competitors, and on their very own deserves.
“We’ve an opponent who’s going to demand the utmost from us in Europe’s finest competitors. So we’re going to go for it.
“We’ve to be higher than them, and consider in ourselves from the primary minute, and be efficient within the decisive moments.
“We all know that within the Champions League, matches are determined within the penalty areas, that’s what we have a look at.
Arsenal’s solely earlier Champions League assembly with Los Blancos got here within the 2005/06 final 16 stage as Thierry Henry silenced the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu in a 1-0 win.