Match Day LIVE .
Champions League Semi finals second leg. PSG vs Arsenal
Venue – Parc d Princess , Paris .
Time -8pm.
May 6th , 2025
The two under achievers or *also ran* teams in European Football lock horns in a bitter rivalry tonight , when Gunners welcomes PSG in th first leg semi finals , in their recently acclaimed fortress , the Emirates where they downed and humbled 15 times winners of the champions league ,Real Madrid 3-0 and also went ahead to reduce Real to a mere village team at the Bernabau 1-2 in the reverse fixture , sealing a scarecly unbelievable score line of 5-1 in both legs , hence ending with ease the dominance of Carlo Ancelotti s men in the European championship .
While Real Madrid fans were waiting for a sweet revenge against the Gunners in the reverse fixture at the Bernabau , Arteta and his army had one thing in mind to get rid of the dominance of the Old war horse, Real Madrid , from the UEFA Champions League and they did exactly that with a repeat defeat on their own soil 2-1
Without their regular strikers , Arsenal defiled all football pundits prediction before the Match and destroyed what remained of Carlo Ancelotti s back yard army in European football .
The Gunners reached this stage of the compettion for the first time in 2009 when they also eliminated the 15 times champions Real Madrid in the quarter finals,but was beaten in the semi finals by Manchester United. While PSG out played two premiership sides before thet got to this stage since 2019/20 when they last got a semi finals berth. They have only appeared in the finals only once which they lost .
Ars enal watched helpleslesy last Sunday when Liverpool humbled Tottenham 5-1 to clinch the English Premieshil title then last weekend on Sunday , Gunners lost again to AFC Bouremouth a the Emirates , there may be a power shift in the squad ahead of meeting PSG in France for the second leg of the champions league , with so many of his regulars being on the bench against Bouremouth and Gunners have also secured the second position in the EpL table ,it seems to be an insignificant match to Arteta , who will not sleep well as he thinkers ways and means to destroy in Paris , , while PSG was crowned the Lique 1 champions in early April. What a contrast of fortune for the two sides yet to lift the much coveted trophy in Europe .
Through they lost to Manchester United that year , by they have held an eight match unbeaten run in the champions league as well as a disappointing finals they lost to Barcelona ,, but Arteta s men have had a near 50% success rate in the semi finals of the champions league , which makes them presently as serious contenders in today’s epic semi finals , though both sides have lost in the finals in different years .
Both teams are yet to impress the football world and set the stage for a crucial knockout in the semi finals , not with standing their recent domestic flip offs ., their previous occupation have been in today’s semi final match after securing their berth in the domestic league for next year’s champions league , a bit of the pressure is off their shoulder and the emphasis , though a tough one is in today’s semi finals match , which is more or less a make or break tie as they look forward to playing in the finals again and possibly win this time .
Either side is control obsseive and can with stand pressure without the ball for long , so it’s going to be really tight as well as a long night for football followers to get the best of their predictions .
Gunners won back in October during the group games but this time the tides have changed as PSG injury returnees like Dembele and Kvaradonna defineky will create some worries for Gunners rear men of they are caught flat footed at the baseline , which may leave their goalkeeper grasping for a late resucue which will not be available this night .
LIius Enrique s men have a way to soak pressure and will repeat same at the Emirates ,hence frustrating a near bemused and badly positoned , most times ,Gunners strikers who may go to sleep at the eighteen yard box of PSG with a rock solid defence and determination to win .
Likely to be a long night stretching into extra time after full time then penalties at the end of hostilities at Parc d Princess if a winner fails to emerge .
If it happens that way , then there Amy be an element of luck as either side will carry the day .
Predictions . PSG 1- 2 Arsenal
Extra time likely at full time with aggregate as 2-2 a possible , sudden death , penalty shootout
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