Arsenal and the Mikel Arteta project gain belief from penalty shootout progress

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Arsenal overcame Porto on penalties last night — this pressure is exactly what Mikel Arteta and his team want

Sometimes a team has to slay their own demons as well as defeat the worst an opponent can throw at them. The weight of history, of messed up European nights, provided an ominous backdrop as ’s players linked arms around the halfway line and was the first to take on the long walk towards the North Bank. But this is a different Arsenal, a courageous Arsenal, a driven Arsenal, an Arsenal that is determined not to be dragged down by a past that isn’t theirs.

Raya sprang to get a hand to three penalties on the night and the decisive one was a moment of pure release. First for him, then it rippled out to uplift his team-mates, the staff, the overjoyed supporters, and the club as a whole. Arsenal are keeping their momentum intact. It has not been an easy week, putting in immense effort to overcome tough assignments against and then an impressively uncompromising Porto.

 

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