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Arsenal received a positive omen before its confrontation in the semi-finals of the Crunch Champions League with Paris Saint-Germain.
The Gunners will face the French champions already crowned at the Emirates Stadium while they are looking to make a first appearance in the Champions League final since the loss of 1-0 against Barcelona in 2006.
Curiously, the outfit in northern London could meet the same opponents in the final in Munich this year that 19 years ago, Barça against Inter Milan in the other semi-final.
While Arsenal had trouble shooting all the fronts at the national level this quarter, they were heated in Europe, losing a single match throughout the campaign, and entered the confrontation of PSG after putting Real Madrid at the sword, winning 5-1 on the aggregates.
Arsenal has in fact already played at PSG in the Champions League this season, winning 2-0 in the Emirates in the redesigned league phase.
This time, however, they received something with a boost for all superstitious fans.
Slavko Vincic was the referee of the Arsenal confrontation with Paris Saint-Germain earlier this season
In addition to reserving Riccardo Calafiori, he showed that Fabian Ruiz of PSG is a yellow card at night
Kai Havertz and Bukayo Saka were on the target in the 2-0 victory of Arsenal on PSG in October
It is because the referee Tuesday evening, Slavko Vicinic, was the same man in the middle as this 2-0 victory.
That day in October, Bukayo Saka and Kai Havertz scored the goals that gave Mikel Arteta’s team an important victory against PSG.
Vincic did not have much to do that night, distributing only two yellow cards; One for Riccardo Calafiori and another for Fabian Ruiz.
He also officiated at the Champions League last season when Real Madrid beat Borussia Dortmund, and took care of the PSG shock with AC Milan in the same tournament, the French team winning 3-0.
While the Gunners were worthy of the winners the last time, they take another side of PSG on Tuesday.
Luis Enrique slowly transformed his team into one of the strongest parts in Europe, ousted Liverpool and Aston Villa in the competition, and looking at a triple of Premier League now.
The key to their resurgence was Ousmane Dembele, who is one of the attackers on the continent with 32 goals and 12 assists all competitions.
However, he is not the only threat, with Bradley Barcola, the Desire Doue and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia also pulling on all the cylinders for the French champions.
