Arsenal Needs Magic Moments To Reach Its First UCL Final Since 2006 – Rice

Arsenal midfielder, Declan Rice has come out to say that the club will need magic moments to reach its first Champions League final in 19 years. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, the semifinal clash vs PSG will be set up for someone to step up and deliver a magic moment, and he hopes the person will be wearing an Arsenal jersey in Paris.

Rice added that the way PSG players move between the lines is really smart, so he and his teammates will need to be at alert to come out victorious.

“I think the manager calls them magic moments. He always talks about having someone delivering a magic moment. I think in that game against Madrid, obviously I was able to produce two free kicks, which were incredible.

But tomorrow night, a semifinal is set up for someone else to maybe get that magic moment. Hopefully it’s me again, but you’re going to need a moment of magic to win a game, and as a team we’re going to need that.

The way they move between the lines was really, really smart. But once we worked out how we could beat them, we missed a few chances, but in terms of how we were driving with the ball, giving our wingers one v one opportunities, chances started to open up.

I think tomorrow night we need to do the same. We need to have big balls and we need to go out there on the biggest stage and show that we’re ready to play at this level.

It was the same team other than Dembele and [Khvicha] Kvaratskhelia. Everyone else started and we beat them.

So there’s no fear. I think the goal inside four minutes probably shocked us a little bit, shocked the atmosphere a little bit.

But once we found a foothold in the game again, we started creating chances. The goalkeeper [Gianluigi Donnarumma] made some amazing saves. We fully believed that we could beat them.

Obviously it wasn’t meant to be, but we’ve seen enough and we know enough as a team that tomorrow night we can do something really, really good and we definitely believe that we belong at this level.”

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.