Bullish Mikel Arteta says Arsenal is “ready to deliver” against Real Madrid tomorrow night.

Gunners host the Spanish giants for the first time in 16 years in the first phase of their Champions League quarter-finals.

He could not choose the strong opponent with Madrid, the most successful club in the history of the Champions League/European Cup, won 15 times when he saw Borussia Dortmund at Wembley last year.

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Arteta knows that Madrid is synonymous with success in this competition, but Carlo was in a Spanned confidence mood before the emirates clash with the men of Ancelotti.

He said: “It is a pleasure to prepare a game, just to see the reaction of the people and how we feel about the game of intensity. This is the phase where we want to be, where Arsenal has to be constantly. We are very proud to be there and now we are very ready tomorrow.

“At 8 o’clock tomorrow night, 11 players, 60,000 people, really guarantee that we are ready to win and beat them. That’s the mentality I want.

“The rest,… (just) be the team that we have been the last quarter of the season, with all the downs and things to face, it continued to do because it is our super strength.”

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For all the good work he has done in Arsenal after taking over in 2019, Artata led him to only one trophy – FA Cup in 2020 and it is desperate to change the record.

He added: “That’s why I came to football, which is why I came to management and especially in this football club. We have this kind of game and it is a great opportunity for us to create our own story and this is what we are here.

“We will take all the ingredients in the direction of all those elements, which is in our hands to play, we will take the direction we want. We will also need our people playing every ball with our people in that direction and it will make a big difference because it is something that really is needed.

“At this stage you need a very special atmosphere to create a very special atmosphere so that I encourage everyone to go there tomorrow, not to play the game with us but to play with us.”

Arteta’s Real Madrid plans to fight the aggressive threat

Arsenal was hit by a major blow last week, in which Key Defender Gabriel rejected the rest of the season due to a hamstring injury against Phulham.

Arteta says he knows what he would do to fight the dominant fronts of Kaylian Ambap, Rodrigo, Vinnis Junior and Jude Bailingham against Madrid, but refused to release his plans.

He started with William Saliba as well as Jakub Kiwier 1-1 draw at Everton on Saturday But Ben White’s ability to play an hour in Gudison Park means that he has options.

It may be that instead of the White Kiwiy, the jurean wood goes to the center, starting from the right side.

“Looks like (everyone is available who was involved in the weekend),” Arteta said. “This is our second training session this afternoon. Ben finished the game (at Everton) and it was okay. The rest went through the game and they were able to do some bits yesterday to train.”

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Saka is about to start for Arsenal

Booklets are likely to start after a long-lasting Bench came out of the bench after the last two games.

“It’s a better place,” Arteta said about the winger of England. “Slowly we have made his minutes in the last six or seven days, he has actually faced it well and is in a good place to be able to use it.”