Declan Rice produced another sensational display when Arsenal Real Madrid defeated – a backup of his great performance of the first legs while the Gunners made ahead in the Champions League
Ally McCoist greeted Declan Rice after a “monumental” version while Arsenal holders Dumped Real Madrid from the Champions League. The Gunners completed their quarter -final mission by winning at the Bernabeu with a fantastic display.
Rice got the headlines with two beautiful free kicks in the first legs when he helped North Londoners to win a 3-0 win. The Premier League-Outfit supported that performance with a victory in the Spanish capital and improved with a 5-1 total victory.
Rice was again central and he was mentioned as the player of the game after excel in the middle of the park, so that Jude Bellingham stopped when Arsenal thorn the pressure on them really thrown through and gave them as good as they got – and something. The former West Ham man further underlined his quality when he rose on the largest stage and he was immediately praised by McCoist, who watched as he was on comment.
He said on TNT sports: “Declan Rice. He was monumental. He was the best player about the two games through a piece. His performance tonight yes. His two goals he scored last week, nothing less than outrageous. Absolutely outrageous.
“But his performance level tonight was quite beautiful.”
Rice only plays a second season in the Champions League and moved to Arsenal a little less than two years ago. 12 months ago and the Gunners saw their European journey ended by Bayern Munich, who hit them in the quarterfinals.
Arsenal has now gone one step further with rice that insisted that the team was always over to make sure they would do a job about Los Blancos, despite enormously talking about an epic comeback in the Spanish capital. The Premier League is further than the Gunners with the players who now view European glory.
He said: “Yes, back to back. Such a special evening for this club. We just want to win this competition. A lot of talking about those who come back, because they have done it so often before.
“But we had so much faith and confidence from that first leg that we had enough to get here and win the game. We knew we would suffer, but we knew we would win.
“We had it in mind. What a night for the club.”
Arsenal will be confronted in the semi -final. The English side has already beaten the Ligue 1 champions and dropped them in the emirates in the competition with 2-0. The Parisians have already eliminated Liverpool and Aston Villa and will be again confronted with English opposition.
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