Former Aston Villa -striker Gabby Agbonlaor has told Mikel Arteta to be 'modest' in a destructive reprimand of the Arsenal -Baas after his comments after the exit of Arsenal's Champions League.
After seeing his side losing losing, the second stage of their semi-final against Paris Saint-Germain-Die lost a 3-1 total victory for Parisian Arteta completed and emotional arteta claimed that the Gunners had been 'one percent' the best side in the competition.
“If you analyze both games, who have been the best player, the MVP, it was the same player – the goalkeeper,” he added Post Match.
The assessment attracted widespread criticism from fans and experts. PSG Baas Luis Enrique, who praised the Gunners for 'playing in a smart way', it insisted that his side 'it earned to reach the final' over two legs.
Ex-Villa Star Agbonlaor also disagreed with the opinion of Arteta, whom he 'ridiculous' before he begged the Gunners boss to be aware of his public comments and 'modest in defeat'.
“They tried, in the first 15 minutes they were the better team,” he said on Talksport. 'They should have scored two or three goals, it just shows you what a top goalkeeper can do in this competition.
“But then I felt that Arsenal faded, Odegaard had a better game, Martinelli, but they faded in the second half. For the manager to say that the best team is lost, it is ridiculous and this is the reason that other fan bases do not want Arsenal to win something.
'I think Arteta should be careful with the way he sometimes speaks. He is talking about the last two seasons: “We have this number of points and that number of points we would have been enough to win the competition this year, Arsenal is the best team in Europe …”
'Sometimes just be humble in the defeat. The better team won more than two legs, by far the better team for me. PSG is the best team in the competition, it is not a shame to say: “We have fallen short, we'll be coming again next season”. “
The defeat in Paris means that Arsenal will undergo a different season without a large silverware. Their European exploits helped to mask the disappointment of a competition campaign, so that they had surrendered the Premier League title to Liverpool in April.
As the season has come to an end, the Spaniard wants to refer to the injuries that his side has sustained to offer some mitigation for their failures to achieve their seasonal objectives.
After the bruises of Wednesday 2-1 defeat, he again made a note of the stars that he could not call in the Parc des Princes, including the will of Kai Havertz, Gabriel Jesus and Gabriel Magalhaes.
He added: 'They earn a lot of praise for what they do in the context of the situation and the amount of injuries, probably the worst state you could arrive here as a team.
“To get here with a different context and still to do that, it gives me a lot of positives for the future, but tonight I am very upset.”
PSG, who has now poured out three Premier League parties in the knockout phases of this competition, will be confronted with Inter Milan in the Munich final on 31 May.
In the meantime, the Gunners are starting their collision against the Reds in Anfield on Sunday by giving the men of Arne Slot an honorary guard.