When requested to call who he felt may go on to win this season’s Champions League, Manchester Metropolis supervisor Pep Guardiola didn’t embody Arsenal in his record of 4 potential candidates.
The Gunners want no further motivation to get their fingers on Europe’s high prize, however Guardiola’s phrases will undoubtedly have lit a hearth below an Arsenal facet who might properly see this as their easiest path to silverware at this level within the marketing campaign.
With Friday’s draw for the final 16 now within the books, here is how Arsenal can attain this season’s remaining.
There will be no reunion with Robin van Persie this season as Arsenal prevented Feyenoord and have as an alternative been drawn towards PSV Eindhoven within the final 16.
Arsenal are the apparent favourites for this tie however would do properly to not underestimate a PSV outfit who simply overturned an combination deficit to dump Juventus out of the play-off spherical.
Assuming Arsenal can navigate their journey to Eindhoven, they may discover themselves confronted with an extremely powerful tie within the quarter-final.
The winner of Actual Madrid vs Atletico Madrid will probably be ready within the final eight. Each side have impressed in La Liga this season however the prospect of going through Carlo Ancelotti’s continent-conquering outfit could also be a worrisome one after watching Kylian Mbappe’s hat-trick towards Manchester Metropolis within the play-offs.
Arsenal can be the house facet for the primary leg of their semi-final, the place they might face one other daunting match-up.
They’ll probably face one in every of both Paris Saint-Germain or Liverpool, who meet within the final 16. Each are among the many pre-tournament favourites and will probably be anticipated to get previous Aston Villa or Membership Brugge within the quarter-final.
There may very well be a rematch of the 2006 Champions League remaining if Arsenal could make it by means of, with Barcelona the present favourites to breeze by means of their facet of the bracket and e-book a spot within the remaining.
Bayern Munich are the opposite heavy hitter seeking to get by means of, whereas Feyenoord, Inter, Bayer Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund, Lille and Benfica are all doable opponents if they will upset the chances.
