🚨 Toni Kroos on Cristiano Ronaldo:
“One night after a Champions League game, most of us were happy... we had won comfortably, everyone was laughing in the dressing room.
But Cristiano was silent. I asked him, ‘What happened?’ He looked at me and said… ‘We scored 3… but I should’ve scored 2 more.’ I thought he was joking… he wasn’t.
The next morning, while others were still recovering, Cristiano was already on the training pitch—watching clips of his missed chances and repeating the same finishing drills again and again.
That’s when I understood… Cristiano wasn’t competing with defenders… he was competing with his own standards.” 📷
Kompany on whether he's considering making adjustments to the system after the many goals conceded recently: "I come from Belgium, and it's similar to the Germans - we're very pragmatic. We don't have a dreamy philosophy. If your goal difference is +81, an all-time record in the Bundesliga, then you've done a lot to make sure you can't lose. We don't want to lose what makes us strong – and we want to win. The goal difference also shows that we don't achieve this with a small margin, but often with a big one. A game like PSG's is played down to the finest details. Of course, we need to do some things much better. But it wasn't as if the opponent was much better than us. What we want to improve shouldn't cost us what makes us strong. And if you look at it rationally, we're on the right track and just need to improve in the details."
🗣️ Sir Alex Ferguson once said: "Attack wins you games, defence wins you titles."
Mikel Arteta took that very seriously and assembled a defence that can 𝗕𝗢𝗧𝗛 win games with its goals 𝗔𝗡𝗗 keep clean sheet after clean sheet.
🇳🇱 Jurrien Timber — £34M
🇫🇷 William Saliba — £27M
🇧🇷 Gabriel — £27M
🇮🇹 Riccardo Calafiori — £34M
🏴 Ben White — £50M
🇪🇸 Cristhian Mosquera — £13M
🇪🇨 Piero Hincapié — £45M
🏴 Myles Lewis-Skelly — Youth
𝗧𝗢𝗧𝗔𝗟: £𝟮𝟯𝟬𝗠
La Liga is supporting Atlético Madrid in the Champions League.
Ligue 1 is supporting Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League.
Bundesliga is supporting Bayern Munich in the Champions League.
Guess who is supporting Arsenal in the Champions League?