‘Please, enjoy where we are as a club’published at 09:03 BST
Arsenal 0-0 Sporting (1-0 on agg)
Arsenal
Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta, speaking in his post-match news conference: “I know the effort, the commitment that they put in.
“There’s a lot of work behind it. We’ve done something that has never been done in the history of our club in 140 years, so that tells you the difficulty of that.
“There is a reason why we are the only English team in the competition, because this league and this schedule takes the hell out of you and it’s very difficult to do what we’ve done.
“We are not perfect, we need to improve things, that’s for sure, we recognise that. But there’s value in what these players have done because they deserve it.
“I wish that we were doing the Arsenal documentary this season.
“Please, enjoy where we are as a club. There’s a lot of work behind it. We’ve done something that has never been done in the history of our club in 140 years, so that tells you the difficulty of that, and we had to do it in a very special way.”
