{"id":672823,"date":"2026-05-29T20:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T20:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/672823\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T20:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T20:36:09","slug":"champions-league-final-jurrien-timber-fit-to-start-champions-league-final-says-mikel-arteta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/672823\/","title":{"rendered":"Champions League final: Jurrien Timber fit to start Champions League final, says Mikel Arteta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Arteta also dismissed the suggestion that the pressure is off for Arsenal, having already won a trophy in the shape of a first Premier League title in 22 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;No, the ambition is bigger, we have one [trophy] and we want the second one,&#8221; said the Spanish manager.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That is all we have been talking about. There has to be a platform to reach bigger destinations and to aim for more. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The team is capable because they have shown it in the last seasons [in] this competition, what we have done this season in the competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I want the players to be so confident that we are going to go and do it.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">PSG come into the match as favourites and the French side defeated Arsenal in the semi-finals of the tournament last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They are looking to become only the second team to win back-to-back titles in the Champions League era.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They are defending the trophy and they are the champions and we are here to take that away from them,&#8221; Arteta said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arteta also dismissed the suggestion that the pressure is off for Arsenal, having already won a trophy in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-672823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}