Real Madrid 1-2 Arsenal (1-5 on aggregate)
by Layth Yousif
at Estadio Santiago Bernabeu

SECOND-HALF goals from Bukayo Saka and Gabi Martinelli were enough to achieve the result Arsenal required to visit Paris in the spring, as Mikel Arteta’s magnificent side beat Real Madrid 2-1 to reach the last four of the Champions League, where they will now play PSG.

For when it came down to it, the Spanish aristocrats failed to achieve their much-spoken about “remontada” (comeback), amid, it has to be said, the flailing noise around their utterly self-inflated opinion of their underwhelming team.