“What kind of footballer would I be if I told you we couldn't come back?”

Arsenal midfielder Mikel Merino said that, after the 0-1 first leg defeat against Paris Saint-Germain, “now, it's a matter of believing it” and that it has been proven that they can compete against anyone. “What kind of footballer would I be if I told you we couldn't come back?” said the Arsenal player in the mixed zone at the Emirates Stadium on Tuesday.

“Today, you saw that we are capable of competing against anyone, against a PSG side that always wants to dominate you and we are full of energy and confidence for the second leg. Perhaps we had some technical errors that need to be corrected," he said.

"It's a matter of analysing it tomorrow, examining it these days, learning from what they do, from what we've done”. On the victory achieved at the Santiago Bernabeu and how it can help them in the second leg against PSG, Merino said that it will help them a lot in terms of confidence.

“It can help us a lot in terms of confidence, in terms of being able to compete against anyone in any stadium. That fills you with an experience that maybe this group hasn't had until now. We have the confidence, we have the technical and tactical quality, it's a matter of believing in it”.