Could you bet that Arsenal will go all the way in the Champions League after beating Real Madrid last night?
Certainly not. It was not only the 5-1 aggregated score that reflected impressive versions over two legs against one side that won this competition 15 times.
The way in which the Gunners could navigate the Spanish giants in the Bernabeu, checked a number of boxes why the North London club will really be feared in these last phases, starting with Paris Saint-German in the semi-final.
With an advantage of three goals from the first leg of the quarterfinals, you would normally deduce that a team is ready to continue to the next round. Arsenal in particular, who are so well defensively.
However, playing in the Bernabeu is another proposition.
The streets outside were two hours before the kick-off with Real Madrid fans awaiting the team bus to arrive.
Within the stadium, the decibel gradually emerged, while the players warmed up under a closed roof allowed by UEFA, which further accelerated this area of an atmosphere.
Even Mikel Arteta admitted his surprise afterwards about how stirring the area was.
He said: 'It was my first time as a coach in that dugout and today I realized after three minutes that everything is possible in this stadium.
'I mean, they are specialists of creating such a chaos, such a conviction, and it is very difficult to really understand what is happening in the game and to have a certain certainty about how we control it. But I think the players showed their own maturity. '
All these factors make the way in which Arsenal has navigated this draw all the more impressive.
'Remontada' Spanish for 'comeback' washing the conversation around Madrid only a few hours after their team left the Emirates last Tuesday after a 3-0 defeat.
Jude Bellingham had said: 'To be honest, I have heard it about a million times since last week. I have seen a million videos online, made by fans, made by you. It is really motivating things. '
Former Chelsea defender Antonio Rudiger shouted the sentence against fans after their 1-0 La Liga victory on Alaves on Sunday, and it also played hard on the Spanish media last week.
So much, Arteta raised a number of questions on Tuesday about how his team would face this supposed 'Remontada'.
Instead, the Gunners came up with an excellent game plan and steadfastness to drive on the many waves with which they were confronted.
Bukayo Saka had saved a penalty after 13 minutes, before Real a spot kick of their own own, was awarded, Kylian Mbappe fell to the floor under minimal contact from Declan Rice.
The VAR intervened to cancel the decision. But despite all this drama, Arsenal was able to concentrate on the task that is obvious and not swept in the emotion in the emotion.
It was the kind of night that this team would have capitulated, in past seasons – but not this one. They have a steelness about them, especially away from home in Europe, which was a problem for them than last season.
After surrendering to Liverpool in the Premier League title race, this result is a antidote for a season characterized by injuries and a lack of silverware.
Arsenal must now certainly believe that they can win this competition in what the biggest triumph of Arteta would be as a manager, who replaces his FA Cup head skin in 2020 a lot.
So next, psg. The French side is a much different outfit than the One Arsenal defeated 2-0 in October in the competition phase – they are no longer in disorder and have Ousmane Dembele back – but the gunners have a real shot in the final.
If they continue in the vein in which they dismantled Real Madrid, Arsenal will stop.