UCL Debrief: Arsenal beaten, PSG go back-to-back!
Football Daily
BBC
4.3 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Reaction from Budapest as Premier League champions Arsenal are beaten by French title winners PSG, who become the first side to go back-to-back in the UEFA Champions League since Real Madrid. How remarkable is the job done by PSG boss Luis Enrique? Did Mikel Arteta get the gameplan right? What can Arsenal learn from this defeat? Analysis and discussion with former Arsenal defender Matt Upson, Premier League winner Chris Sutton, chief football correspondent John Murray, French football journalist Julien Laurens and Steve Crossman.
Timecodes: 00:40 Marquinhos’ touching gesture to Gabriel after the missed penalty 03:30 Arsenal dealing with a cruel defeat 04:30 Did Arsenal give enough in this final? 09:30 Are PSG now one of football’s greatest club sides? 14:40 Reaction from Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta — what has he told his players, how can Arsenal take the next step? 16:17 What can Arsenal do to get closer to victory?
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| 0:40.3 | It only feels like about 60 seconds ago that Gabrielle's penalty went over the bar. |
| 0:44.8 | Already down on the pitch, there is a stage, there is a huge sign which says champions on it. |
| 0:51.1 | There is a platform that the Arsenal players don't want to look at. They're facing directly |
| 0:55.6 | away from it to the other end of the stadium because they know they're going to have to walk |
| 0:59.8 | that walk. They're going to have to pick up runners medals very, very soon. And the shoulders |
| 1:06.2 | have slumped because they kept themselves upright. They hung in there for 120 minutes, |
| 1:13.1 | and in the end it's for now. |
| 1:14.6 | So myself, John Murray, Matt Upson and ESPN's Julianne LaRont, |
| 1:19.6 | will be reacting to what we've just seen. |
| 1:22.6 | And it was Jules a powerful moment that when the first man over to the devastated Gabriel, when his shirt |
| 1:30.7 | was almost still over his head, was his Brazilian teammate, the PSG captain Marquinos. |
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