🚨💣🎙️ | Julian Alvarez BLASTS Arsenal media Critics ahead of their Fixture:
🎙️Alvarez: 🗣️ “I honestly don’t understand why Arsenal receive the level of criticism they get. For me, they are a great club with a very strong team. When I have time on weekends, I watch them, and I really enjoy their style of play — the way they move the ball, the intensity, the ideas. It’s something I admire a lot.
What Mikel Arteta has done there is incredible. People need to give Arsenal more credit because what they are doing is not easy at all. To be unbeaten in the UEFA Champions League at this level is very, very remarkable. And then you look at the Premier League and see them at the top — that’s insane. It shows the level of the team.
I think sometimes people just like to talk about Arsenal because their own clubs are not capable of doing what this team is doing right now. It’s easier to criticize than to recognize quality.
For me, I’m really looking forward to playing against them with Atlético Madrid. It’s going to be a great game of football two very strong teams going head-to-head. I know the level they have, and we also believe in our strength. These are the matches you want to play in, and I can’t wait for it.”
🗣️Declan Rice on Viktor Gyökeres -
"It's tough for him, because he's got two defenders on him all game, all over him."
"So he has to use his strength, he has to do all he can to help the team and with my first goal, without him making that run from Gabriel Martinelli's flick and holding it, setting it off to Martin (Ødegaard), that goal wouldn't happen. That was a pivotal moment in the game for us to turn the game on its head."
"But at the minute, defenders in the Premier League want to be able to stop Viktor Gyökeres, because he's one of the best strikers in the world."
"Trust me, he's doing unbelievably for us, and we wouldn't be where we are without him."
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