Avant la demi-finale retour de Ligue des champions merecredi au Parc des princes face au Paris Saint-Germain, le milieu de terrain anglais d'Arsenal Declan Rice a livré ses impressions en conférence de presse.
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00:00Nothing changes, to be honest with you.
00:02It's a semi-final, it's 90 minutes away from a final.
00:05I think that tells you everything you need to know.
00:07I think the manager spoke to us.
00:09Us as a group of players know what we can achieve tomorrow night.
00:12And it's a game of football, you know.
00:14We can go out there and we can achieve something great for this club.
00:16And that's what we want to do.
00:18You know, we obviously know we're 1-0 down,
00:20but we have full belief, full positivity,
00:22that we're going to go out there and win tomorrow night.
00:25This season, I've played the majority of games at number eight.
00:28Obviously, playing with Thomas,
00:29it's allowed me to be, you know, that more box-to-box role.
00:34And I thoroughly enjoyed it, you know.
00:35It gives me a bit more freedom to roam around the pitch,
00:37get in the box, also do my defensive duties as well.
00:40So, yeah, I'm quite lucky.
00:42Obviously, Thomas is there, he sits in front of the back four
00:44and he lets me roam up and down.
00:46But, yeah, I'm really enjoying that position at the minute.
00:50Not really.
00:50I think the first 15 minutes,
00:52I think the early goal probably shocked us a little bit.
00:54And it took us probably 15, 20 minutes to get a foothold in the game.
00:58But once we started keeping the ball a little bit
01:00and started to create some chances,
01:02and obviously Donnarumma made some amazing saves,
01:04we had full belief.
01:05And then second half, obviously, there was a little glitz.
01:08It would be 10 minutes to go where they hit the post,
01:10sorry, the crossbar, and we'll put one wide.
01:11But we had some massive chances as well.
01:13So I think tomorrow night is going to be a really good game.
01:16And like I said, we're really positive.
01:18And we have full belief we can come here and do something special.
01:20So we certainly have that as a group.
01:23The manager certainly drills that into us every single day.
01:27I think if we're the best versions of ourselves tomorrow night,
01:30we know we can be that.
01:32There's no stopping us getting into that final.
01:34We really need to be positive.
01:36You can't come into a semi-final away at Paris
01:39and not have that belief and courage
01:41that you're going to come here and win the game.
01:43So, yeah, we're ready and we're looking forward to it.
01:45It's going to be a really special night to be a part of it.
01:47But quickly, I've watched both of your free kicks
01:51in the first leg against Real Madrid about a hundred times.
01:53How often have you watched them?
01:55Probably about the same, to be honest with you.
01:58Yeah, it was a special moment, obviously, then two goals.
02:01The fact it was back-to-back, you know,
02:03it was the first one and the second one straight after.
02:06I'm not sure I'll probably ever do that ever again, to be honest with you.
02:09It was a real special moment, and obviously, to help the team get through.
02:12So, yeah, it was, to be honest with you, I'm still speechless.
02:16Like, when I look back at them, it's just incredible.
02:18So, yeah, hopefully, maybe tomorrow night I can get an O-1, let's see.
02:22Tomorrow night's just another game, you know,
02:24it's the semi-final of the Champions League,
02:25but I don't put too much pressure on myself.
02:28You know, it's us versus them,
02:30and we obviously know what we have to do to get to the final.
02:33Like you said, I've played in semi-finals before,
02:35and I know it's required to get to the finals.
02:37And hopefully tomorrow night, as a group, we can pull through
02:39and we can achieve something really, really good
02:42and make it a really special night for this club.
02:45And one of the things that we can do it,
02:46when we went to the Bernabeu the other week,
02:48there was a lot of questions on whether we could rise to that occasion.
02:51We obviously had a 3-0 lead,
02:53but there was still so much talk about them obviously coming back
02:55and playing at the Bernabeu, and we've not experienced that before.
02:58But I think as a group, we handled that amazingly well.
03:01Obviously, the atmosphere tomorrow night is going to be incredible as well,
03:03but we've proved that we can handle big situations.
03:07And tomorrow night is another massive step for this team, you know,
03:10for a young team.
03:10But if we want to keep being one of the best teams and want to win stuff,
03:14we need to keep taking these massive steps.
03:16And tomorrow night is a big step to take,
03:18and we're fully driven by the fact there's a final, you know, 90 minutes away.
03:21So the Champions League, we beat them 2-0.
03:23And it was the same team other than Dembele and Cavaz Galliot.
03:28Everyone else started, and we beat them.
03:29So there's no fear.
03:32Like I said, I think probably the goal inside 3 minutes
03:35probably shocked us a little bit, shocked the atmosphere a little bit.
03:38But once we found a foothold in the game again, you know,
03:41we started creating chances.
03:42Like I said, the goalkeeper made some amazing saves.
03:45We fully believed that we could beat them.
03:47Obviously, it wasn't meant to be.
03:49We've seen enough, and we know enough.
03:50As it's tomorrow night, we can do something really, really good.
03:53And we definitely believed that we belong at this level.
03:56You know the fans sing, and we don't.
03:58We have a way of playing the way of how the manager wants to set up and go.
04:03And if he says that's the way we want to play,
04:05you know, we're not going to go out there and do the opposite.
04:07We're going to do exactly what he wants us to do.
04:09And I think tomorrow night, no way we're just going to go out there and sit back.
04:13You know, we're here to win the game.
04:15We're here to make a statement.
04:16And like I said, we want to get to the final.
04:17So we need to be ready to make case.
04:20He's a really good tactically.
04:21Obviously, our manager's really good tactically.
04:23And you felt that in the first leg, you know,
04:25and there was a lot of movement in midfield.
04:27They've run around so much and created a lot of space for each other.
04:30The way they move between the lines was really, really smart.
04:33But once we worked out, you know, how we could, you know, beat them,
04:37obviously we missed a few chances.
04:38But in terms of how we were driving with the ball,
04:41given our wingers 1v1 opportunities,
04:43chances started to open up.
04:45And I think tomorrow night, you know, we need to do the same.
04:47You know, we need to have big balls.
04:48and we need to go out there on the biggest stage
04:50and show that we're ready to play at this level.
04:53Last one in French.