Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta admitted that his side struggled in the opening 15 minutes of their 1-0 defeat to Paris Saint-Germain on Tuesday night, in the first leg of the Champions League semifinal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 scored the only goal of the match, giving PSG a slight edge ahead of the return leg next Wednesday at the Parc des Princes in France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Speaking to the press after the game, Arteta said his team should have at least come away with a draw. \u201cWe put a lot of energy into the game. We struggled to gain momentum and take control in the first 10 to 15 minutes. I\u2019m disappointed not to have at least earned a draw,\u201d he told Amazon Prime<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Regarding Demb\u00e9l\u00e9\u2019s goal, Arteta added: \u201cThat\u2019s always the danger\u2014credit to them. They broke out of a tight situation. We had seven players behind the ball, and they executed with precision. Sometimes, you just have to acknowledge individual brilliance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta admitted that his side struggled in the opening 15 minutes of their 1-0 defeat to Paris Saint-Germain on Tuesday night, in the first leg of the Champions League semifinal. Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 scored the only goal of the match, giving PSG a slight edge ahead of the return leg next Wednesday at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":528158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_trash_the_other_posts":false,"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"pays":[93],"personnalite":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-528157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football-news-benews-sport","8":"pays-europe"},"acf":{"type_de_publication":"opinion","nom_de_linstitution":"","description_de_linstitution":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":528175,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528157\/revisions\/528175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528157"},{"taxonomy":"pays","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pays?post=528157"},{"taxonomy":"personnalite","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/personnalite?post=528157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}