There’s A Reason Why Arsenal Is The Only English Team Left In The UCL – Arteta

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has said that the club’s progression to the UCL semifinals can help his team against Manchester City this Sunday. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, he believes the qualification in Europe can serve as springboard for Arsenal‘s meeting with Pep Guardiola’s side this weekend.

Mikel added that he is grateful to his players for being England’s only representation in the UCL semi-finals.

His words, “One hundred per cent.

This is a massive push to win the semifinal of the Champions League. It’s extremely tough and we know what we’ve done. We deserve it, fully deserve it as well, and we’re going to enjoy it because we deserve it.

My message [to the players] was gratitude to them. I know the effort and the commitment that they have put in.

There’s a lot of work behind it. We’ve done something that has never been done in the history of our club in 140 years, so that tells you the difficulty of that, and we had to do it in a very special way, missing a lot of important players.

There is a reason why we are the only English team in the competition, because this league and this schedule takes the hell out of you.

We are not perfect, we need to improve things, that’s for sure and we recognise that. But there’s value in what these players have done.”

WOW.

Arsenal Football Club is an English professional football club based in Holloway, North London. Arsenal compete in the Premier League, the top flight of English football.

The club has won 13 league titles (including one unbeaten title), a record 14 FA Cups, two League Cups, 17 FA Community Shields, the Football League Centenary Trophy, one European Cup Winners’ Cup and one Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. In terms of trophies won, it is the third-most successful club in English football.

After conducting an overhaul in the club’s operating model to coincide with Wenger’s departure, Spaniard Unai Emery was named as the club’s new head coach on 23 May 2018. He became the club’s first ever ‘head coach’ and second manager from outside the United Kingdom.

In Emery’s first season, Arsenal finished fifth in the Premier League and as runner-up in the Europa League. On 29 November 2019, Emery was dismissed as manager and former player and assistant first team coach Freddie Ljungberg was appointed as interim head coach. On 20 December 2019, Arsenal appointed former club captain Mikel Arteta as the new head coach. Arsenal finished the league season in eighth, their lowest finish since 1994–95, but beat Chelsea 2–1 to earn a record-extending 14th FA Cup win. After the season. Arteta’s title was changed from head coach to manager.