“ Their best player was the goalkeeper ”: Mikel Arteta insists that Arsenal was “much closer” than the suggested result against PSG and Gianluigi Donnarumma was the creator of difference

Mikel Arteta said that goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma was the best player in Paris Saint-Germain and the difference manufacturer when the French team poured out the Champions League.

Arsenal lost 2-1 in the Parc de Princes and 3-1 on the aggregates but was “much closer” than the suggested result, according to Arteta.

The Gunners, who will now spend another season without trophy, started live and Donnarumma was forced to make a series of remarkable backups.

First, the 26 -year -old produced an impressive stop by Gabriel Martinelli before keeping a long -term effort from Martin Odegaard with pressure guests.

The Italian then made an astonishing stop for a tip on the strike of Bukayo Saka which was intended for the upper corner.

Donnarumma also presented a magnificent display during the first stage, which saw the Parisian team leave the Emirates with a white sheet.

The 26-year-old goalkeeper made a series of impressive backups in the two legs of the semi-final

Mikel Arteta said that Donnarumma was “their best player” and that “ made the difference for them ”

Arteta was full of praise for his players despite their defeat and distinguished the PSG shooting cap as the difference.

Speaking after the match, he told TNT Sports: “The evaluation that I will do when I will be a little cooler, but the comments that I removed from their bench is that we were much better than them.

“When you watch the two games that their best player on the field was the goalkeeper, he made the difference for them in the link.

“We were very close, much closer than the result has shown, but unfortunately, we are absent. I am very proud of the players

“After 20 minutes, it should have been 3-0. There is something more you need to go to competition and that is not the case. We were very close and for long periods of the two games, we were much better than them, but we are not there and that must hurt.

“I don’t think there was a better team (than Arsenal) in the competition of what I saw, but we came out,” he added.

Arsenal will have another season without trophy after being eliminated from the semi-finals

Donnarumma saved Gabriel Martinelli when Arsenal accumulated pressure early

Bukayo Saka finally found a way to pass the Italian goalkeeper, but it turned out to be too little

“This competition concerns the boxes and in both boxes are the attackers and the goalkeepers and there was the best of the two games.

“But I’m so proud of players. They deserve a lot of credit for what they do in the context of the situation and the amount of injuries, probably the worst state that you may arrive at team here.

“To come here with a different context and do that again, it gives me a lot of positive points for the future, but tonight I am very upset.”

PSG went forward in the night with a spectacular strike in the first half of Fabian Ruiz.

Achraf Hakimi curled up in a second in the 72nd minute, taking the game out of reach, after Thomas Parte did not manage to erase the weak crossing of Khvicha Kvaratskhelia.

Saka has beat Donnarumma with a late strike and David Raya saved Vitinha’s kick, but it was not enough for the Gunners to reach their first Champions League final since 2006.

This means that the drought of the Arsenal trophy will continue for another season, with their last piece of silverware a FA Cup in the first year of Arteta in the Emirates.

Meanwhile, PSG has now beat three Premier League teams during the KO and hope to become the first French team to win the competition in 32 years.

They have already won Ligue 1, ending the title of the League with six games to play.

They face Inter Milan, which beat Barcelona in the fascinating semi-finals, five years after losing against Bayern Munich during their only other appearance in the Champions League final.