McCle Artita: Arsenal is ready to “write private history” after 16 years without the Champions League semi -finals Football news

Arsenal manager Mikel Arta said his team is “ready to write their history” after the UEFA Champions League winners were crushed 15 times in the first stage of the quarter -finals of this season.

Arsenal continued his victory against Los Blancos, after they canceled them in the 16th of their only previous meeting in 2006, with amazing performance and results in the Emirates, which Paul Merceon described the best in the history of the 19 -year -old stadium.

Speaking after winning 3-0, ARTETA left a doubt about the scale of the result.

“When you do not play against this team for 20 years, you do not have a suitable round in this competition, you should be ready to write your history,” he said.

“On such nights, you can write your own history. It came from the team and individual quality of our players. Now we have a lot to offer.”

Arteta has issued a note about caution, to remind his players over and over again – and the wider world – was still “half the time” in a tie before the next week match in Bernabeu.

“We will enjoy winning, but we know that the first half has ended and we will have to be better in Madrid,” he added. “I was very convinced (this may happen). I can feel in accumulation that we can create a lot of problems.

“But you have to achieve it. If you have this mentality and belief can happen, you can deliver it. We have done it but it is just time.”

Arsenal coach said that the collective performance of his side and “moments of magic” was the difference at night, and the most prominent dual Diklan Rice – his first direct goals of free kicks – but revealed that the ingenuity of the dead ball was long in making it.

“Declaan has been designed very much because we have said in the past few months that we have not recorded a direct free kick in three and a half years,” he said.

Therefore, to score two goals in 12 minutes of this size and with this quality of the same player, the player has never scored a free kick before in his career, what are the possibilities?

“The whole night was about two factors; the first is the atmosphere that we created 15 minutes before the launch of something that I have not seen before. Then magic, the individual moments that decided all the matches. Two goals are the first two goals from Diklan summarizing the night.”

Ancelotti: We have fought physically and mentally

Carlo Ancelotti pulled a few punches in his evaluation of his team’s performance after shipping three goals in 17 minutes in the second half to give Real Madrid a huge mission at home at the second station next week.

The veteran coach, who won more Champions League medals as a manager more than anyone else, has admitted that Real Madrid has failed after he failed the knees in Rice’s free kick – and left to watch frustration because they failed in any kind of response after the third Mickel Merino.

“It was very difficult for us. We thought the team was strong in the game, in the first half we were organized,” he said.

Then, after the two goals we gave up free kicks, the team struggled mentally and physically. The level decreased.

“It was difficult, it ended in this way. This team usually raised its game at the end of the games, it was disappointing and weak.

“We must criticize ourselves here and do everything we can in the next week to recover.”

Looking at Real Madrid’s record in Europe in recent years, there will be questions that ask whether they can produce another historic night themselves in Bernabeu next week, but Ancelotti has not done much to raise his team’s expectation to the semi -finals after such first bruises.

“The possibilities are very low, but we have to try 100 percent and do everything we can,” he said.

“It is an opportunity to show a pure game.”