Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta expresses confidence in his team's ability to make history against Bayern Munich in their first Champions League quarter-final in 14 years. Despite previous defeats against Bayern, Arteta believes the absence of Bayern's fans in the first leg and the support of Arsenal's fans could make a difference.
Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta , during a training session at London Colney in St Albans, England, on Monday. Photograph: Paul Harding/Getty Images Mikel Arteta has said Arsenal have the belief they can “create their own history” against Bayern Munich as they prepare for their first appearance in a Champions League quarter-final for 14 years.
“I see the energy change in the players,” he said of the atmosphere at the Emirates this season. “Their belief, their body language, actually how much they are looking forward to it, how protected they feel. It’s like a cushion there to tell them, and a wind blowing on their backs, saying ‘go for it, we are right behind you.’ And you can sense it. When we are able to do that at home it is extraordinary. The changes, you feel things in your body, and we have to feel that.
“Those things generate belief, and what we did with Porto and with the manner we’ve done it, you want to overcome those hurdles in this competition,” he said. “You are going to have magic moments. At a certain stage, at a certain moment, in the competition, in the tie, something exceptional has to happen. It has to go your way, you have to generate that momentum and in order for that to happen you have to make it happen otherwise it’s not going to come.
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