Luis Enrique is closer to his long -awaited final. His Paris Saint Germain, who proved to be one step ahead of Arsenal, took the victory at Emirates Stadium Thanks to a bit of Ousmane Dembelé And you can certify in the Princes Park its presence in the second final of the CHampions League of its history.
The French, supported by Dembelé’s goal at three minutes and In the stops of Gianluigi Donnarumma, They take a great advantage facing the return, who will play at home, and force Arsenal to overcome for the first time in this Champions.
If Mikel Arteta wanted an atmosphere that would never have been seen at Emirates Stadium got it. The “North London Forever” sounded like never before, there was a motivational video of the Spanish coach in the videomarkers and two typho. It was the best night in the history of this stadium, but mysticism lasted three minutes.
What Dembelé took to receive open field, find Kvarathskhelia in a band and finish off the French with the left -handed the Georgian sending. It was somewhat that he froze the Emirates for a few seconds, which took the London stadium again, that years ago he would have sunk, but now reacts with another face to the setbacks.
Arsenal 0-1 PSG for the Champions League
The attitude was there, but if it had not been at the stops of David Raya, who took two magnificent hands to Kvarathskhelia and Doué, the arsenal could have lost the tie in half an hour.
With the passage of the minutes, the arteta team improved and ordered the draw in Martinelli’s boots. The same play that crowned him at Santiago Bernabéu against Thibaut Courtois, here was the dream of Donnarumma’s left.
The first great stop of Italian closed the first part, which resulted in a premonitory comment by Wayne Rooney on television. “The worst is about to arrive for Arsenal“said Manchester United’s legend.
And as soon as they get out of changing rooms, the ‘gunners’ tied. Miss Mikel Merino’s side and headache. A celebration that lasted a few moments, until it toured the rumor that it was out of play. After three minutes of review, The VAR confirmed the anti -regulation position And the Arsenal illusion balloon suffered an important puncture.
The second stab was inflicted by Donnarumma, with a sensational hand below to Leandro Trosssard, even better than Martinelli’s. The Italian lived another night of glory in London, as four years ago when, with his stops he gave the Eurocup to Italy against England in Wembley.
The spiky goalkeeper still had another save Bukayo Saka, desperating the quarry ‘Gunner’ who thought this would be his night and met a wall on the side like Nuno Mendes.
Without the need to go crazy looking for the second goal, the PSG controlled the tempos, maintained possession to stop the effervescence of the arsenal and was held with Donnarumma to get a brilliant result in the face of the return in the Park of the Princes.
Barcola, who entered the last minutes in replacement of a dembelaé headdress, could and surely have increased the advantage. In one he did not dare to shoot, preferring to wait for a partner, and in another his shot against Raya left crying to the stick.
Perhaps they remember these two occasions in a week, when Arsenal will need to go back to return to a final 19 years later and the PSG is shot the second final in its history, the first after the passage of Neymar and Kylian Mbappé.