Vasquez has it saved!!
Vasquez has it saved!!
Real Madrid it is
Rudiger sends Markeing through!
bad luck Atleti, but glad Real are through just to see them at our ground - win or lose, will look forward to that one
Very much looking forward to playing Real Madrid.
All those years in the mud and dropping out of the CL, we craved this shit. Now we’ve got it.
Hope we actually make a tie of it.
If Saka is back, there is hope. If not, we'll need miracles or self sabotage from them.
Anyway this was the best outcome we could hope for from the two. Well done to Atleti for making Madrid work for this really hard.
So I’m largely in agreement with the sentiments of others, definitely wanted Real over Atletico and two ties of ugly and brutal football. I’m not confident we will get past them (though with Saka gives us a slight chance) but as long as we don’t do anything silly it should at least be somewhat competitive, and we’ve seen from defeats they’ve suffered in Europe that they can be got at.
But apart from anything else should be a hell of a night at the Emirates.
Being estimated that secondary market tickets for the first leg could be as high as £1000
I won’t lie, if it was £500 I’d honestly consider it. But not a grand. Last European Arsenal game I went to was the first leg of the semi final against Atletico Madrid. Dirty, time wasting buggers…that’s why I’m glad we don’t have them again now.
The disallowed pel seems really harsh, I couldn't really tell on the replays I saw and even if it was double touch it wasn't deliberate, that's clearly not what that rule is about - why don't they do what happens when the goalie moves off his line and make them take it again?