Enda Coll

I think the midfield is probably the more interesting part because Lewis Skelly will likely play beside Declan Rice and I think they'll need Lewis Skelly.

Obviously, Zubamendi provides more defensive cover, but what Arsenal probably really need more than that is somebody who's willing to take the ball under pressure and play out from the press because PSG's press is the best press in Europe.

So, while Zubamendi is the better defensive option and you're going ultra-defensive, I think Lewis Skelly is probably the more sensible option because they'll be under more pressure if they don't have an option to play the ball out to.

So, it really is going to be defined by...

the styles of play because PSG are not a defensive team they're really good defensively but they're not a defensive team Arsenal are really good defensively and not an offensive team so I'm not expecting anything electric in this final except for maybe a moment of magic from the PSG players to open Arsenal up yeah

Like I do think there's a tendency to say just because Arsenal are playing a defensive style that what they need is a Jacareza front as an out ball but as you said Eze, Saka, Havertz these are the players that they actually need players that are going to get in the gaps and into space and take the ball into feet and hold it and be able to

take it with their backs to goal or take it under pressure from Vitinha and Joao Neves and be able to go past them.

So you need your ball players on the pitch against PSG because Pacho and Marquinhos, they're not going to be bullied by any striker.

They're not the biggest strikers in the world, but they're not going to be bullied.

And you definitely need the pace of the likes of Saka to get at Nuno Mendes and put him under pressure.

That's the battle that everyone's probably looking forward to the most, I would say.

If he gets booked early on like he did in the Champions League semi-final against Bayern Munich,

against Olise like Olise caused him serious problems so Saka not a dissimilar player to Olise probably not as good on the ball but similar in that he can go inside and outside so Arsenal can cause PSG trouble as well they also concede as Barry Murphy was saying on off-ball breakfast this morning like they pointed out that they concede a lot of goals PSG 22 I think to 6 compared to Arsenal in the Champions League this year I know a lot of those were against Bayern in the semi-final but

Yeah, Real Madrid.

But they beat them well as well.

Yeah, Thierry Henry had a famous rant after that game where he just went off script.

He was going to Barcelona the following year.

Was it the following year or maybe the year after?

he was interviewed on the pitch and it's unusual to see a player who loses the final interviewed on the pitch after the game, but he went on this amazing rant about everyone was talking about Ronaldinho, everyone was talking about Ato, everyone was talking about all these different players, but Henrik Larsson, he came off the bench and he changed the game.

I'm like...