Arsenal Player William Saliba on Declan Rice and the Quarter Final not being over yet
08/04/2025
Arsenal Stadium, London, UK
08/04/2025
Arsenal Stadium, London, UK
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00:00Hi William, congratulations.
00:02Thank you very much.
00:03How does it feel to have a clean sheet against one of the world's best 1-3?
00:05Yeah, we are so proud because we knew that they are the best players in the world.
00:10So we are so happy to keep the clean sheet today in front of our fans.
00:15We have to take it as a lesson to do it again next week.
00:20And of course, Declan Rice never scored a free kick.
00:22Two amazing ones.
00:24How do you feel about his performance and he's really stepped up for the team today?
00:27Of course, we don't score a lot of direct free kick and today he scored two in a big game like this.
00:34So we are so proud of him and I hope he will score again.
00:37And yeah, we are so happy of his performance because he was amazing today.
00:42And what sort of confidence does this bring for the next leg?
00:45We know it's not over, there's still 45 minutes, both sides to go.
00:48How do you feel approaching that as a defender?
00:50Of course, we won 3-0 today.
00:52We want to win again next week to be qualified.
00:55So we don't have to be scared.
00:57We want to go there and win the game again.
00:59Thanks.
01:00Don't question him.
01:01No, just here, guys.
01:02Just here.
01:03Races to goals.
01:04First ever free kick in his career.
01:06Do you see that in training every day?
01:08No, I don't see that.
01:10Because the first time I've seen a good free kick uptake today.
01:15Because we don't score a lot of free kicks, direct free kicks.
01:19So I'm so proud of him and I hope he will score and I'm sure that he will score again.
01:24Is that the best night of your career?
01:26Yeah, one of the best and I hope not the last one.
01:29The fans are saying that that was the greatest night of the Emirates and Arsenal moved to the stadium on the pitch.
01:36Did it feel like the greatest night?
01:38Yeah, it was incredible.
01:40Because to win in a quarter-final like this against Madrid in front of our fans is amazing.
01:46But now we have to do it again next week away.
01:51Just here.
01:52Just here, guys.
01:53What does it now do for the belief for the team going to Bernabeu?
01:58Yeah, we want to go there and win the game.
02:01We won three-nil today but we know that it's not finished in the Champions League.
02:06There is a lot of things that can happen.
02:08So we have to go there and win and not defend all the games.
02:12And this is still a very young team but what can this sort of performance experience do for this young team?
02:18Yeah, it gave us a lot of confidence for what is coming next.
02:23And we have to keep going like this even if we have a young team, we can do it.
02:28Just one question here and then we're done guys.
02:35As a team, we can go on all night talking about it.
02:39What does this result show in terms of resilience in terms of having been able to absorb those efforts?
02:46Yeah, we don't want to hide behind the injury.
02:49We know that we haven't been so lucky this season with the injury but we have to keep going.
02:58We have a lot of good players who can step up as well.
03:01So we did well today and it gave us a lot of confidence for what is coming the following weeks.
03:10And also people say there's a man who Voodoo at the Bernabeu.
03:14The Real Madrid is never dead.
03:16What do you say to that?
03:18Yeah, we are not scared.
03:19We want to go there and win the game and we'll be soon.
03:22Thank you so much guys.
03:24Thank you, congratulations.