Arsenal head coach Mikel Arteta and Paris Saint-Germain head coach Luis Enrique had a war of words at the post-match press conference after the second leg of the 2024/25 UEFA Champions League semi-final match between the two clubs on Wednesday.

The whole incident originated from Arteta's remarks at the post-match press conference of this match. Long before the press conference began, the Gunners' head coach had already boldly claimed that "Arsenal is the best club in the Champions League this season, and this "best team in the best club" lost the game in 180 minutes."

Later, after the press conference began, when a Sky Sports reporter asked Mikel Arteta about this matter, he stood his ground and claimed that "even the Paris Saint-Germain players and staff on the bench told him the same thing."

Later, when a reporter from The Athletic asked Luis Enrique what he thought of his compatriot Arteta's remarks at the former Barcelona head coach's post-match press conference, Enrique smirked and began to hit out at the other party.

The Paris Saint-Germain head coach hit back: "No, I don't agree with Mikel at all, and I don't think my players have said such "great" remarks."

"They played this game in a clever way today, and they also played a role in pushing the rhythm of the game to their advantage, because that is the tactic they want and love to use."

"But I think that over the two legs, we scored more goals than them. In football, that is the most important thing if you want to win."

"However, I must be honest. Arsenal played very well. They played a very exciting game and created a lot of threats for us."

"However, I always think we deserve to advance to the final. Although they are also a great team, I still have to reiterate that we scored more goals than them. We played well in the first leg. Although the second half of this second leg showed a very different rhythm, we could have scored more goals."

Subsquently, perhaps because he was still angry, when TNT Sports' reporter asked Enrique about how he felt about Les Parisiens being the only club in this season's Champions League that have eliminated all the Premier League giants, the famous Spanish coach sarcastically said: "Aren't we farmers?! Don't people always say that the quality of Ligue 1 is like a "farmer's league" with only one team dominating?! ”

On the other hand, I would like to take this opportunity to "slap the face" of our website's infamously notorious female rumour monger "Ms. Hype Up" who spread rubbish about this incident a few hours ago.

According to the analysis data of Opta, the most authoritative data analytics website in football, Arsenal's Expected Goal (xG) value in this game is 3.14, not 4.77 as "Ms. Hype Up" has claimed!

Secondly, Declan Rice, Gabriel Martinelli and captain Martin Ødegaard had goalscoring opportunities in the 3rd, 4th and 8th minutes respectively. The goalscoring opportunities within 5 minutes came from headers, rebound and long shots. These three times were goalscoring opportunities with an Expected Goal Probability (xGP) value as low as 0.107!

Strictly speaking, these were all goalscoring opportunities that Gianluigi Donnarumma had a great chance to make a successful save. The Premier League giants did not "miss golden goalscoring opportunity" at all, but "expected a miracle to happen". Shots or headers that went just slightly wide of the post or crossbar / Shots saved and went out for a corner or lifted over the crossbar / Hit the post / Hit the crossbar / Blocked off the goal line, is really defined as "missed golden goalscoring opportunity"!

Do you know how big the differences are between these, "Ms. Hype Up"?!

You know nothing about footballing knowledge and dare to talk about xG like the others?! who are you trying to laugh to death with?!