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Hello, good evening and welcome to live coverage of the Champions League semi-final second leg between Paris Saint-Germain and Arsenal. The bad news for these teams is that they have precisely 0.00% chance of serving up a feast to compare with Inter v Barcelona last night.
The good news is that they don’t have to: last night was 50 shades of WTF, a match we’ll talk about forever, but all that really matters to PSG and Arsenal is reaching the final and keeping alive the chance to become European champions for the first time. Arsenal won’t care if they win 1-0 after extra time and then 1-0 on penalties.
PSG start as pretty strong favourites after their cool-headed victory at the Emirates. Before the first leg, Mikel Arteta asked the supporters to bring their boots; yesterday Declan Rice reminded his teammates to bring their balls, the bigger the better.
Arsenal have never won a European tie after losing the first leg at home, although they were effectively half a goal behind when they won away to Juventus in 1980. The winners will play Inter in Munich on 31 May. It’ll probably take the performance of a lifetime for Arsenal to get there. But as last night reminded us, in the knockout stage of the Champions League, pretty much anything is possible.
Kick off 8pm BST.
