Comment: PSG hold Champions League nerve better than Arsenal but semi-final isn't over

Mikel Arteta’s men will take confidence from the fact it is only a one-goal deficit.
Comment: PSG hold Champions League nerve better than Arsenal but semi-final isn't over

Paris Saint Germain manager Luis Enrique gestures on the touchline. Pic: Adam Davy/PA Wire.

North London has been waiting forever to win a European Cup or Champions League and perhaps that weight of time was responsible for a semi-final first leg defeat against PSG in which Arsenal couldn’t quite hit the heights of their performances against Real Madrid.

But now, having experienced what it felt like, their job is to turn that same pressure on their opponents in Paris on May 7.

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