William Saliba believes Arsenal can win the Premier League and Champions League double this season, saying the team have ‘four finals’ coming up.
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Arsenal secured passage to the Champions League final with a 1-0 win over Atletico Madrid on Tuesday night, their first appearance in the final of the competition since 2006.
The Gunners are also just three wins away from the Premier League title, having not won the competition since 2004.
So there’s a lot of potential in these final four matches of the season, but nothing should be taken for granted. If Arsenal lose just two of those four games, they could end up trophyless, even if they win the other two.
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Whilst William Saliba revealed his delight at reaching the final in Budapest, he admitted the team still have four big games to come. And he thinks Arsenal are capable of winning them.
“We’re so happy to reach the final,” Saliba told beIN SPORTS. “It was not easy, we knew that the Champions League is hard. We need to keep going, hopefully, we want to win that final.
“It’s big (to be four games from two trophies), but we know that it’s not finished. We have four games, it’s small, but at the same time it’s long, because we have three games in the Premier League and the final, so we have four finals.
“We want to win all of them, and I’m sure that we can do it.”
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Arsenal’s end to the season kicks off with a game away to West Ham, who are under threat of relegation and in dire need of a win to keep themselves afloat. That takes place this Sunday, May 10th at 16:30 BST.
The Gunners will then get an eight-day break, with no fixtures until Monday, May 18th, when they’ll face relegated Burnley at 20:00.
Assuming the title hasn’t been won by then (whether by City or Arsenal), the decider will be at Selhurst Park against Crystal Palace on Sunday, May 24th at 16:00.
Palace may or may not already have one eye on the Europa Conference League final the following Wednesday, depending on their result this Thursday.
Regardless of how the Premier League season ends, Arsenal will then travel to the Puskas Arena in Budapest on May 30th for the Champions League final, against either Paris Saint-Germain or Bayern Munich.
