Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta is targeting another win over Real Madrid in their UEFA Champions League quarter-final second leg at the Santiago Bernabeu on Wednesday night, Afrosport reports.
The Gunners won the first leg at the Emirates Stadium 3-0, with Declan Rice’s free kick brace the highlight of the evening.
It has put Arsenal on course to reach the Champions League semi-finals for the first time in 16 years and Arteta is not settling for any lesser result in the Spanish capital.
“To win it,” he said when asked what his approach will be to the game. “The same that we did in London, our preparation has been the things that we have to do, the things that we have to dominate throughout the game in different phases to give us the best possible chance to win the game.
“That’s clear our mindset and then we’re going to play.”
Real Madrid have been renowned for making comebacks in the Champions League and when Arteta was asked if it was possible, he added: “I understand that. It’s part of their history and they have the right to be talking about these kinds of scenarios.
“Ours is very different and our mindset, preparation, our thoughts and how we’re going to have the best chance to be better than them in the aspects that are crucial in the game because we’re going to try to take the game to places very different to our intentions and if we do that we’re going to have a good chance to win the game.”
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Real Madrid are the current Champions League holders and should they exit at this stage, it would mark the first them they did since the 2003-04 season when they lost to eventual runners-up AS Monaco.
