PSG Pass Masters make the worst fears of Arsenal & Declan Rice

Declan Rice won the mood and marked the hazard signals in his last message when Arsenal gathered in a Huddle before they were confronted with the formidable challenge of Paris St-Germain.

“If we don’t have the ball, we die,” Rice told his teammates from Arsenal, making their warming up for the semi-final first stage of the Champions League in Emirates Stadium.

Arsenal is not completely dead in the tie, but they have absolutely trouble staying alive while tracing 1-0 in the return to Paris – especially because they were unable to perform Rice’s instructions in the crucial opening phases that have formed the game.

The stage was set for the first semifinal of Arsenal in 16 years due to an extravagant display of fireworks and pyrotechnics, all against the background of a huge banner who covers the gigantic grandstands with the words ‘make it happens’.

It was PSG who let it happen – and made it happen exactly in the way rice was feared so clearly.

Ousmane Dembele’s fourth minute Finish in Arsenal keeper David Raya of Khvicha Kvaratskhelia’s delivery was the highlight of a 26-pass movement. It was PSG in a microcosm, Rice’s warning delivered in the most painful way.

To emphasize PSG’s rule in the first exchanges, they had a total of 71.6% owned in the first 26 minutes, the period of the game in which they threw a bucket of ice cold water over what a white -glowing environment had taken back for the benefit for the second stage of Paris for the second stage of next Wednesday.

In the same period, PSG had a remarkable passing accuracy of 86.5% in half of Arsenal, and the total ratio was 165 passes to 60.

When Arsenal finally las the memo of Rice, the most important damage was caused.

Arsenal traveled it around, with 55.4% possession for the rest of the game, but Rice knew what would come and PSG was just too good to stop early.