Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has opened up on how his team can reach the UEFA Champions League semi final at the expense of record winners Real Madrid.

For three players, the 2-2 draw with PSV Eindhoven on Wednesday night may have been their last hurrah for Arsenal in the Champions League. With a tough run-in followed by a summer transfer window in which they are expected to leave, it is perfectly plausible that Mikel Arteta will not give them another minute in the competition.

Mikel Arteta insists Arsenal are ‘very capable’ of beating Real Madrid in the Champions League quarter-finals, although he recognises it will be ‘very difficult’ for them to do so. The Gunners strolled into the last eight with a 9-3 aggregate victory over PSV over two legs of the last 16.