\n Read more<\/span> <\/p>\n Are the games themselves much different? Is the style different to in the Premier League?<\/strong><\/p>\n Yeah, it is. I feel like the game is usually more open in the Champions League. Everyone is looking to score in every action, nobody is just at the back, defending the whole time, so the games are more open. <\/p>\n That means the forwards can get more space, and I think for the fans as well it\u2019s great to watch a Champions League game. For the whole 90 minutes every team is trying to get at the opposition, trying to score, so it\u2019s good for everyone.<\/p>\n As a player, do you try to remember that feeling of disappointment you had at the final whistle in Paris last year, and use it as\u00a0fuel and motivation this time around?<\/strong><\/p>\n Yeah, of course \u2013 speaking for myself I don’t want to feel that pain again! And I’m sure none of the boys in the dressing room want to feel that again for sure. We have to take that feeling in our belly into the game as well, give our best and try to do everything we can.<\/p>\n We are unbeaten so far in the competition, and we finished top of the group stage, do you think that was important to build the confidence?<\/strong><\/p>\n Of course, and the other thing that winning the group gave us was being at home for the second legs. It shows how good we are to win that group, how good we can be and what we can achieve. It\u2019s always better to be first!<\/p>\n You played your 50th European game for Arsenal in the quarter-final, you must be, you must be proud of that number?<\/strong><\/p>\n Yeah of course, this is my club, I love the club and every time I\u2019m on the pitch playing the games I try to give my best for this football club. I\u2019m so grateful for everything this club has given me.<\/p>\n What have been your highlights from those 50 games?<\/strong><\/p>\n I have to say against Real Madrid last season. Playing in the Bernabeu was great, I had some friends there too that night, my agent was there and after the game we met up, spoke about the game and it\u2019s something that will be forever in my memory, and hopefully my grandkids one day as well!<\/p>\n How do you spend your time when you’re away on a European trip?<\/strong><\/p>\n It’s normal for us, we are used to travelling, especially with the national team as well. We spend a lot of time in hotels so it\u2019s not a problem for us. Normally we play cards. Myself, the Gabis and David Raya play a Brazilian card game together, called Cacheta.<\/p>\n When I\u2019m in my room I will call my parents or my fianc\u00e9 usually, but when I\u2019m with the others I play cards. I think this month Gabi Jesus is winning, it gets competitive! We Brazilians are very competitive, we want to win everything! I play Parchis as well, sometimes with Cristhian Mosquera and Piero Hincapie.<\/p>\n \n Read more<\/span> <\/p>\n Copyright 2026 The Arsenal Football Club Limited. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Gabriel Martinelli is our top scorer so far in this season\u2019s unbeaten Champions League run,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} Our best Champions League goals under Mikel Arteta <\/span>
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