David Raya's post-match feedback slammed by Wayne Rooney after Arsenal defeat
David Raya highlighted the positives after Arsenal had been overwhelmed by Paris Saint-Germain within the first leg of their Champions League semi-final on the Emirates Stadium
Arsenal goalkeeper David Raya placed on a courageous face after the Gunners' Champions League first leg defeat towards Paris Saint-Germain, however not everybody thought his optimism was warranted. Wayne Rooney slammed the Spaniard for his stance on the 1-0 reverse, with fellow pundit Clarence Seedorf agreeing.
Ousmane Dembele gave PSG an early lead and Luis Enrique's aspect may simply have added a second earlier than the break. Mikel Merino noticed an equaliser disallowed following a good offside, whereas Leandro Trossard and Bradley Barcola spurned huge probabilities for both aspect within the second half.
Talking to Amazon Prime after the defeat, goalkeeper Raya seemed on the positives. "They began fast with a aim they usually dominated the primary 15-20 minutes however after that we dominated a lot of the recreation, created the probabilities," the previous Brentford star stated.
"Donnarumma made some good saves. It's solely half-time, we take positives. They’re a high workforce however credit score to the gamers for the hassle – we may've gained the sport. We all know they preserve possession so much and are good at that. That they had that likelihood and put it within the web, that is soccer and we had probabilities to attain however we didn't handle to.
"I've not seen [disallowed] aim again however we wanted that elevate and we confirmed from the twenty fifth minute of the primary half that we will win towards any workforce. We’ve got confirmed within the season we will win away video games too so we'll go to Paris subsequent week making an attempt to win."
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Rooney didn't see issues the identical method, however had a idea when it got here to the motivation behind the feedback. "I feel what's occurred there may be Mikel Arteta's most likely gone in and tried to be as optimistic as he could be and David Raya has provided that message again out as a result of actually that's not what occurred within the recreation," he stated.
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"I feel for Arsenal there's a worry over the previous couple of years, psychologically, there's a worry of not getting over the road. They've ran Manchester Metropolis shut a few instances within the league, they've ran Liverpool a bit of bit shut, now they've overwhelmed Madrid they usually're shut within the Champions League…
"I feel there's a worry. There's a hurdle they need to go over. You want to achieve success to construct, and that's the one method you’ll be able to construct is being profitable on the best way on the journey to the highest, and I don't assume they're making these steps."
Seedorf was equally fast to query Raya's take. "It's very troublesome to do interviews after the match and do a very good evaluation of the match, as a result of generally the sensation doesn't actually match the fact," the four-time Champions League winner stated.
"However I do hope he may have a very good take a look at the match tomorrow, as a result of it's essential to know what went incorrect. As a result of the second leg, I feel Arsenal have so many issues to study from immediately that may assist them.
"It's not so troublesome. As a result of we’ve seen Paris Saint-Germain [get into] issue the second you will have an organised defensive workforce in entrance of them."
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