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\nDNA Arsenal coach Mikel Arteta said last season\u2019s Champions League final defeat by Paris Saint-Germain was fueling his side this campaign, admitting he had tried but failed to get over the heartbreak. Arsenal play at Bayern Munich, one of the favorites for the tournament alongside the Gunners, on Wednesday.
\nArteta\u2019s side took an early lead against holders PSG in Budapest in May\u2019s final but conceded a second-half equalizer and then lost on penalties. \u201cI\u2019ve tried, but I haven\u2019t managed,\u201d Arteta told reporters on Tuesday when asked if his side was over the defeat. \u201cThat\u2019s the reality. So I tried for many weeks during the summer, but even today, and when I see the ball, when I (hear) the music, when I see the scenes, I want it so badly.
\n\u201cWe know that we have to go step by step, but I think that\u2019s fired up the team, and all of us individually, because we know that because of a penalty, we are not the champions of Europe.
\n\u201cSo, yeah, let\u2019s try again.\u201d The English champions have won 10 from 11 matches in all competitions to start the season and face a short-staffed Bayern.
\nAlready without the suspended Michael Olise and the injured Jamal Musiala, Bayern come into the match with doubts around ill coach Vincent Kompany, captain Manuel Neuer and midfielder Joshua Kimmich. Arteta said he hoped to see Kompany in the opposite dugout, adding his side wanted to face the best version of Bayern in order to test themselves and improve in Europe\u2019s top competition.
\n\u201cYou want to face the best players in these kind of games and duke it out with the best in the world. \u201cFirst of all, as a team, you see how incredibly well coached they are, the mindset that they have, the conviction that they have in their reaction and then in real quality moments that they can produce throughout the games, when we look at the goals and chances that they generate.\u201d
\nBayern striker Harry Kane, who enjoyed a decade-long rivalry with Arsenal during his time at Spurs, is in top form and is among the favorites for the Ballon d\u2019Or, which will be awarded in late October in London. Arteta said Kane was \u201csomething else, on another level,\u201d but backed his side\u2019s defense to take care of the England captain. \u201cThey get tested a lot in the Premier League and they\u2019ve already done it in the Champions League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
BERLIN21 DNA Arsenal coach Mikel Arteta said last season\u2019s Champions League final defeat by Paris Saint-Germain was fueling his side this campaign, admitting he had tried but failed to get over the heartbreak. Arsenal play at Bayern Munich, one of the favorites for the tournament alongside the Gunners, on Wednesday. Arteta\u2019s side took an early …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":104694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104720,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104709\/revisions\/104720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}