Arsenal Will Not Fear Any UCL Quarterfinalist – Odegaard

Arsenal midfielder, Martin Odegaard has come out to warn his team-mates not to fear any of the other teams left in the Champions League after their last-16 win over Porto. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, even if the UCL is the biggest tournament in the world, no matter what team Arsenal gets, he and his teammates will do everything possible to win.

Odegaard added that Arsenal players want to keep playing the biggest games and fighting for the biggest trophies.

His words, “To be honest, we can’t think like that. It’s the biggest tournament in the world and, no matter what team we get, it’s going to be a good team. We will just take what we get and we will try to win. That’s where we want to be. We want to be on the biggest stage. We want to play the biggest games and fight for the biggest trophies. When I came here I believed in the project, in the club, what they were doing, everything around the club, I believed in it – and now we are here doing well. We just have to keep pushing each other and make sure we get a little bit better every day. We will see where it takes us.”

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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.