{"id":3612,"date":"2026-04-02T22:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T22:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=3612"},"modified":"2026-04-02T22:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T22:21:07","slug":"chelsea-tv-presenter-claims-arsenal-are-not-on-the-same-level-as-champions-league-rival-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=3612","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea TV presenter claims Arsenal &#8216;are not on the same level&#8217; as Champions League rival | Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 300px 160px; gap: 2px; width: 460px; background: #eee; padding: 2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u6574\u884c\u5bbd\u5e7f\u544a -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876674\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 90px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876676\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u5de6\u4fa7\u7ad6\u6392 -->\r\n  <div style=\"height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876672\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"height: 500px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876680\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u53f3\u4fa7\u6469\u5929\u697c\uff08\u548c\u5de6\u4fa7\u5b8c\u5168\u5bf9\u9f50\uff09 -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-row: 3\/5; height: 750px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876678\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  \r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e6\" data-zoneid=\"5876682\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n<\/div><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"646\" height=\"433\" src=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SEI_289883555-ab14.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=646\" class=\"article-image wp-image-27828921\" alt=\"Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta (left) celebrates following the UEFA Champions League match at the Emirates Stadium, London. 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Editorial use only, no commercial use without prior consent from rights holder.\" decoding=\"sync\"\/>\t<\/div><figcaption>Arsenal will play Sporting CP in the Champions League quarter-final (PA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jason Cundy believes Arsenal \u2018are not on the same football level\u2019 as Paris Saint-Germain but insists Mikel Arteta\u2019s side can still win the Champions League this season.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal remain the only unbeaten team in the Champions League this term after their 3-1 aggregate victory over Bayer Leverkusen in the last-16.<\/p>\n<p>The Premier League leaders will now play Sporting CP in the Champions League quarter-final with the first leg of their tie against the Portuguese side to be played next Tuesday<\/p>\n<p>PSG, meanwhile, needed to beat Monaco in the playoffs to reach the Champions League last-16 but Luis Enrique\u2019s side impressed in their 8-2 aggregate win over Chelsea last month.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal\u2019s hopes of winning the quadruple this season ended before the international break with a 2-0 defeat to Manchester City in the Carabao Cup final.<\/p>\n<p>Cundy maintains Arsenal can still win the Champions League but claims Arteta\u2019s side are \u2018nowhere near\u2019 the level PSG have shown.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We [the Premier League] are an unbelievable league but the truth of it is the last couple of seasons the league is actually pretty goal,\u2019 Cundy told talkSPORT.<\/p>\n<div class=\"factbox\" data-ico=\"factbox_article\" data-track-module=\"factbox_article\">\n<h2 class=\"factbox-title\">\n\t\t\t\tGet your football fix\t\t\t<\/h2>\n<div class=\"factbox-content\">\n<p><strong>Metro<\/strong>&#8216;s weekly newsletter In The Mixer delivers punchy analysis and breakdowns of the biggest football stories directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up here, it&#8217;s an open goal.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u2018I watched PSG [against Chelsea], all jokes aside, that is a football team, a proper football team. Don\u2019t rely on long balls, don\u2019t rely on set-pieces, don\u2019t rely on long throws, they are a proper team.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img width=\"646\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SEI_289867239-4aed.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=646\" class=\"article-image wp-image-27829274\" alt=\"EDITORIAL USE ONLY No use with unauthorised audio, video, data, fixture lists, club\/league logos or \" live=\"\" services.=\"\" online=\"\" in-match=\"\" use=\"\" limited=\"\" to=\"\" images=\"\" no=\"\" video=\"\" emulation.=\"\" in=\"\" betting=\"\" games=\"\" or=\"\" single=\"\" club=\"\" publications.=\"\" mandatory=\"\" credit:=\"\" photo=\"\" by=\"\" javier=\"\" garcia=\"\" psg=\"\" fans=\"\" celebrate=\"\" the=\"\" opening=\"\" goal=\"\" scored=\"\" khvicha=\"\" kvaratskhelia=\"\" chelsea=\"\" v=\"\" paris=\"\" saint-germain=\"\" uefa=\"\" champions=\"\" league=\"\" round=\"\" of=\"\" second=\"\" leg=\"\" football=\"\" stamford=\"\" bridge=\"\" london=\"\" uk=\"\" mar=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>\t<\/div><figcaption>Paris Saint-Germain beat Chelsea 8-2 on aggregate in the Champions League last-16 (Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u2018Last season, they were the best side I saw in any competition and they went on to win the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018But that doesn\u2019t necessarily mean to say that Arsenal, who have had their criticism, aren\u2019t capable of going and doing what they\u2019re doing in the Premier League and overpowering teams.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I\u2019ve got no love, I hope Arsenal fall at the last every time, but you\u2019ve got to appreciate a good side, you\u2019ve got to appreciate what they do and they do it well, dark arts and all that.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I\u2019ve said this, I want my side Chelsea to be more like them. I want to be more like Arsenal. I want the dark arts, go down in the box, throw yourself down, goalkeeper\u2019s holding his head.<\/p>\n<div class=\"factbox\" data-ico=\"factbox_article\" data-track-module=\"factbox_article\">\n<h2 class=\"factbox-title\">\n\t\t\t\tChampions League quarter-final draw\t\t\t<\/h2>\n<div class=\"factbox-content\">\n<p>Paris Saint-Germain vs Liverpool<\/p>\n<p>Real Madrid vs Bayern Munich<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona vs Atletico Madrid<\/p>\n<p>Sporting CP vs Arsenal<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u2018Arsenal can go on and win this Champions League by being who they are. But if you\u2019re talking about a football club and a football team, PSG have embodied everything, they are just a brilliant team, moving the ball, creativity.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Going forward, Barcelona, that\u2019s the beautiful game, the way they move the ball through the thirds, Arsenal are not that team and that\u2019s okay, you don\u2019t have to be like that.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018What I saw [PSG beating Chelsea] was just an eye opener. They are miles ahead of anything in the Premier League in terms of football, PSG, no team can touch them with the ball at their feet.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018And Arsenal, as good as they are, they\u2019re not on the same level as a football team as PSG, nowhere near it, but Arsenal can do it in a different way and they\u2019re going to have to find a way.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Liverpool have got to find a way. From what I\u2019ve seen of Liverpool this season and PSG in the Champions League, I don\u2019t think they are capable, I genuinely don\u2019t think they are capable of matching PSG because they have got the lot and they are ruthless, utterly ruthless.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>For more stories like this,\u00a0check our sport page<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Follow Metro Sport for the latest news on <meta charset=\"utf-8\"\/><br \/>\n<strong>Facebook,\u00a0<\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Metro_Sport\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Instagram<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"metro-more-link\"><svg><title>Arrow<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#common-right-arrow\" href=\"#common-right-arrow\"\/><\/svg><span class=\"mor-link\" data-track-module=\"mor-link_article\">MORE: Joe Cole fears huge Chelsea star could quit amid Man Utd transfer links<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"metro-more-link\"><svg><title>Arrow<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#common-right-arrow\" href=\"#common-right-arrow\"\/><\/svg><span class=\"mor-link\" data-track-module=\"mor-link_article\">MORE: Gabriel Jesus names Arsenal star who can \u2018do everything\u2019 and makes title claim<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"metro-more-link\"><svg><title>Arrow<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#common-right-arrow\" href=\"#common-right-arrow\"\/><\/svg><span class=\"mor-link\" data-track-module=\"mor-link_article\">MORE: Man Utd urged to sign \u00a3100m England star ahead of Arsenal and Liverpool<\/span><\/p>\n<section id=\"share-buttons-bottom\" class=\"share-buttons share-buttons-bottom\">\n\t\t\t<span><svg><title>Comment now<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#social-comment\" href=\"#social-comment\"\/><\/svg><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"share-bar-comments__label\">Comments<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span><svg><title>Add Metro as a Preferred Source on Google<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#social-preferred-source\" href=\"#social-preferred-source\"\/><\/svg><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"share-bar-preferred-source__label\">Add as preferred source<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/section>\n<div class=\"newsletter-end-card accent--sport\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-end-card__inner\">\n<h4>Football Newsletter \u2013 In The Mixer<\/h4>\n<p>Punchy analysis, transfer talk and more from Metro&#8217;s football experts, sent straight to your inbox every week.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><!-- \u603b\u5bb9\u5668\uff1a\u6700\u5927\u5bbd908px Grid\u7d27\u51d1\u5e03\u5c40 -->\r\n<div style=\"display: grid; 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