If Arsenal win Saturday's Champions League final it will be their first - but Premier League sides are no strangers to success in the competition
Mikel Arteta with Leandro Trossard
Arsenal are one win away from Champions League glory(Image: Getty Images)
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Some 20 years after their first Champions League final, Arsenal have a chance to go one better and deliver European glory. Manchester United won their first final in the revamped Champions League, and Teddy Sheringham has told the Gunners how they can do what his side achieved in 1999.
Arsenal are up against holders Paris Saint-Germain in Budapest, with Luis Enrique's side likely to provide a stern challenge. It was a similar story for United when they took on Bayern Munich more than a quarter of a century ago, only for super-subs Sheringham and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer to turn the game on its head in the closing stages.
"You’ve got to back the English team in a game like this, even if it is Arsenal, but it’s going to be a tough ask for them. You never know though," former England striker Sheringham said via BOYLE Sports
"We’ve seen that this Arsenal team knows how to win games. They do have an uncanny manner about them to grind results out of nothing."
So, who might take those Sheringham and Solskjaer roles? "If they need two players to step up in injury time as Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and I did for Manchester United in 1999, I think it will be Eberechi Eze and Martin Odegaard to win it," the 60-year-old added.
"They are two quality players that know how to finish. Our two goals were scruffy goals to win the competition but those two boys strike the ball how the ball should be struck.
"I really like both of them as players and if the ball falls to them in the right manner, they can both score goals from anywhere within twenty five yards of goal. Inside the box, outside the box, they are both quite precise with their finishing so they could score the winners for Arsenal."
Teddy Sheringham celebrates in the 1999 Champions League final
Sheringham scored in Manchester United's comeback win in the 1999 final(Image: PA)
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Arsenal were eliminated from last season's Champions League by PSG, losing both legs of their semi-final. The Premier League champions haven't lost a single European fixture this season, though, and manager Mikel Arteta spoke about of the final after his team clinched the league title.
"We need to [celebrate] because we need that energy to flow and going against that, I think it will be a big mistake," he said on Sunday. "We’ve already talked about what we have to do in Budapest, how we're going to use all the incredible energy that we're all carrying towards that final and tomorrow we're going to start to prepare for it.
"We can't wait to write for the new chapter in the history of our club and win the Champions League."
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