PSG are favourites heading into the Champions League final on Saturday, but they are far from flawless. Here’s how Arsenal could get the better of them.
Arsenal are just one win away from history.
Win this weekend’s Champions League final in Budapest and Mikel Arteta and his team will go down as legends. They would become the 25th different winners of the competition (including its time as the European Cup) having never won it before, and after they wrapped up the Premier League title last week, they’d also be just the fourth English club to complete the European double.
History awaits. It’s within Arsenal’s grasp. They are just 90 minutes away.
The only problem is that it’s Paris Saint-Germain who stand in their way.
Can Arsenal topple psg?
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PSG won last season’s final against Inter 5-0, having knocked out Liverpool, Aston Villa and Arsenal, while this season they have seen off Monaco, Chelsea, Liverpool and Bayern Munich in the knockout stages.
They have an exceptional record against Premier League clubs, winning each of their last five ties with English opponents. And in knocking out Bayern, whom they kept at arm’s length in the second leg, they proved they can beat anyone. The German champions were, at the time, the best team in the world in the Opta Power Rankings.
Top spot is now held by Arsenal, who moved into first place last week, and there is no question they pose a formidable threat to PSG’s hopes of retaining their title.
But if Arsenal are to topple the reigning champions, they will need to have the game of their lives, and it’s natural to assume any chance of success will start with their exceptional defence playing out of its skin to keep PSG’s stacked forward line quiet.
If Arsenal are to win, many would expect them to do so via a narrow scoreline and, probably, a clean sheet. After all, no team in Europe’s top five leagues has won more games in all competitions this season by a specific scoreline than Arsenal have done 1-0 (11).
However, as good as Arsenal’s defence is, stopping Achraf Hakimi, PSG have one of the best attacking right-backs in world football, and he is encouraged to get forward at every opportunity. But that leaves space to be exploited. Of all 36 teams in this season’s Champions League, only PSV and Chelsea have seen their opponents create more chances down their right side than PSG (37.3%).
Spurs and Chelsea both scored goals away to PSG after attacking down that flank and putting a ball across the face of goal – Archie Gray for Spurs and Pedro Neto for Chelsea – while Luis Díaz’s exceptional goal for Bayern at the Parc des Princes in the semi-final came after a darting run in behind the PSG defence that Hakimi made no effort to track, leaving the Colombian one on one with a helpless Marquinhos.
Arsenal’s left wing is, along with the right-back spot, probably the position where there is most uncertainty ahead of Saturday’s game. Leandro Trossard has played there in most of Arsenal’s recent (meaningful) games, but there is an argument the direct running and pace of someone like
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