{"id":492243,"date":"2025-04-07T09:23:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T13:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=492243"},"modified":"2025-04-08T05:04:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T09:04:30","slug":"arteta-we-are-ready-to-defeat-and-eliminate-real-madrid","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/arteta-we-are-ready-to-defeat-and-eliminate-real-madrid\/","title":{"rendered":"Arteta: We are ready to defeat and eliminate Real Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal head coach Mikel Arteta gave his press conference before the 1<sup>st<\/sup> leg of the Champions League \u00bc finals against Real Madrid in London tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what the Gunners boss shared with the media: \u201cOn Tuesday we will be 11 vs 11 on the pitch and more than 60,000 at Emirates will support us. Our team is prepared to fight and to win. That\u2019s what I taught my players and how I want them to think.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must be the team that is ready for the most important part of the season and deal with all the positive and negative things around us in the best way possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arteta also answered if Bukayo Saka is ready to play from the 1<sup>st<\/sup> minute tomorrow against Real: \u201cBukayo is in a much better place after we gave him the minutes in the past week, and he showed positive signs. I believe that Saka will be able to help the team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard also added that it is a privilege for him to prepare Arsenal for such a big game, and without a doubt, this will be one of his biggest nights as head coach.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;100%, it&#39;s a joy&quot; \ud83c\udfc6<\/p>\n<p>Mikel Arteta says facing Real Madrid is one of his biggest games of his managerial career so far \ud83d\udd34 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/48lItnxsZ2\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/48lItnxsZ2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsNews\/status\/1909203081390063979?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 7, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal head coach Mikel Arteta gave his press conference before the 1st leg of the Champions League \u00bc finals against Real Madrid in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":484915,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17383,18072,18106,17375],"news_category":[136,14235,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[18073,366,1076,327],"acf":{"announce":"The Gunners manager spoke before the UCL match.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/492243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492243"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/492243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492257,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/492243\/revisions\/492257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492243"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=492243"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=492243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}