Hello and welcome to a brand new ArsBlog Arscast right here on arseblog.com. How are you?

There's a question that doesn't need to be answered this morning. I do hope you're well, but obviously I guess many of you are feeling

not great today after we were eliminated from the Champions League on the back of a 2-1 loss to

PSG at the Park de Prince last night after a 1-0 defeat in the first leg and it was perhaps

a bridge too far, a step too far for a team,

which I do think deserves credit for getting to this stage of the competition,

but one which ultimately did not have what it needed to win a game or two games

at this level of this competition.

We are finding and have been finding goals hard to come by.

Sometimes it's because we don't create enough.

Sometimes it's because our finishing is poor.

Sometimes, as was the case over these two legs,

it's perhaps a little from column A, a little from column B,

and then you throw in a column C, literally a gigantic column of a man in the shape of Jan Luigi

Donoruma, who was, I think it's fair to say, outstanding in both games. We can look at ourselves, we can look at the things

that we can control, we can look at what we can do better, but sometimes as well you have to

acknowledge that there's a player on the opposition side, whether it's a striker, whether it's a

goalkeeper, who makes a difference. And he was absolutely that player for me, the best player on either

side in both games. And look, I don't want to say it was all down to the goalkeeper. There are things

that we could have done better. There were moments we could potentially have managed better,

particularly, I think, in this second leg when it comes to the goals that we conceded.

But if you're trying to be fair in your analysis, you have to give credit where it's due to the opposition when they produce performances or a performance,

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