Zak Ansah believes that Arsenal can reach final showdown with same momentum – Arsenal News
Thursday, March 28th, 2013 8:43:55 by Awais AhmedZak Ansah believes that Arsenal can reach final showdown with same momentum – Arsenal News
Zak Ansah thinks that with Arsenal under-19s’ current run of form, they can easily secure a spot in the title-round. Arsenal overpowered the Russian side, CSKA Moscow, with a 1-0 score line and secured a nail-biter semi-final clash against their London rivals, Chelsea.
The Arsenal under-19 side displayed brilliant skills at this under-19 tournament. They managed to create many chances and showed great defensive skills. The opening half went goal less with both sides finding a breakthrough. However, Gnabry netted the only goal of the match in the 56th minute and led the Terry Burton side to glory. The German forward played a one-two with Hector Bellerin before scoring this spectacular goal.
Ansah on the other hand entered the field in 78th minute as a substitute. He was extremely happy with Arsenal’s victory and believes that it is good before the final’s week in Italy.
Ansah stated in an interview to Arsenal.com:
“It was a tough game, CSKA are a hard-working side who sat behind the ball so we had to break them down and eventually we did that. The whole tournament has been a great learning curve for us. Against Athletic Bilbao and Inter Milan we had to show patience to break them down, and that helped us here – especially on a big pitch. We got the ball down and played, and passed around their team even though they had set their stall up to defend. We finally broke them down and got the goal we needed to go through.”
Arsenal will now take on their arch rivals, Chelsea, in the semi-finals at Lake Como. Ansah believes that his team has high confidence of winning this series. He reflected about his next match-up and his tournament clicking thoughts:
“Everyone is buzzing now about facing Chelsea in the semi-final, games don’t come much bigger really. We definitely believe we can win NextGen – Arsenal Football Club is about winning so we want to go on and do that in this tournament.”
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