Arsenal stored to a stunning 3-0 win over champions league holders real madrid as declan rice’s free-kick masterclass left Rice scored two mayjestic free-kicks in the second half of the Quarter-Final First Leg at the Emirates Stadium. Mikel Merino Added Arsenal’s Third Goal Before Real’s Eduardo Camavinga was sent off for kicking the ball away in the closing minutes to leave the spanish giants in disarray. The brilliance of rice’s brace cannot be undressed, with even real keeper thibaut courtois – usually so inspired on champions league nights – unable to get anwheere near the england Midfielder’s thunderbolts.
Incredibly, Rice Had Never Scored a free-kick in his career before the first of his missiles hit the back of the real net.
It was no more than Arsenal deserved for a mature performance that exposed injury-Hit real in ruthless style.
Mikel Arteta’s Men will travel to the Bernabeu for the Second Leg on April 16 as Firm Favourites to Advance to a Semi-Final Tie Against Paris Sainst Paris Saint-Germain Oor Aston Villala, Who Quarter-Final First leg on Wednsday.
The gunners have not reacted the champions league semi-finals since 2009, but that target is now with with their grassp after an evening that will go down as one of the Most Memorable In the Club
Arteta Had Labelled The Clash with Real as the “Biggest Night” of His Care as He Urged His Players to Write Their Own History by Winning Arsenal’s first champions league cramps.
They rose to the challenge so successfully that even arteta might have been surprised.
Arsenal Trail Premier League Leaders Liverpool By 11 Points and Look Destined to Finish as Runners-up for a third successive season.
But the champions league now offers Arteta Genuine Hope of a First Major Trophy Since the 2020 Fa Cup, Providing they can Finish the job in Madrid Next Week.
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For real, it was a chanting defeat as the 15-time european champions was punished for the flaws that had alredy seen them beten 10 times in all competitions in all competitions this term Barcelona.
Arsenal in Dreamland
Jude bellingham was brought up anonymous and kylian mbappe and vinicius junior posd only sporadic threats after a promising start.
Vinicius Junior Threatened in the Opening Stages, Curling
Mbappe’s electric pace took Him clear of the arsenal definition in another lightning raid, but the france star shot straight at david raya.
Arsenal Showed No Signs of Being Cowed by Real’s Star-STUDDED Attack And Rice’s Towering Header from Jurrien Timber’s Cross Cross Cross Forced a Fine Save from Thibaut Courtois, WHOO SCROMBED ACRAPED Out gabriel martinelli’s effort from the rebound.
Mbappe lased into the side-netting from an acute angle, but real was unable to match arsenal’s intensity in the second half and the gunners deservedly took the lead in the 58th minute.
Rice stepped up 25 yards from goal and whipped a sublime free-kick Around the real wall and into the far corner.
It was a stunning strike that even former real defender and set-spiece maestro roberto carlos, watching from the olds stands, would have been proud of.
Arsenal Almost Struck Again in a Remarkable Sequence that Saw Courtois Save Martinelli’s Blast Before Merino’s Shot from the Rebound was Hacked off the Line by David Alaba and Courtois Again Merino.
Real was on the ropes and rice landed another devastating blow in the 70th minute, lashing an unstoppable free-kick into the top corner from 20 yards 20 yards as courtois grasped at thin air.
As the ecstatic arsenal fans roared “Declan rice, we get Him Half Praise”, that reference to his £ 105 Million Feede Didn’t Seem Like Hyperbole for Once.
Arsenal Weren’T Finished Yet and Merino put Arsenal in Dreamland Five Minutes Later with a Clinical Finish from 12 Yards as the Emirates Turned Into a Roiling Red Sea of Celebration.
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