"Cruyff's Ajax, Messi's Barcelona, Rice's Arsenal. Stein, Michels, Ferguson, Arteta. The Dark Side of the Moon, The Very Best of The Beatles, Arsenal 2025-26 highlights DVD. Total Football, tiki-taka, hugging the goalie at corners. Get ready. Make room among the greats. It may just be coming."
"Arsenal, runawayish leaders in the Premier League, are strong favourites to reach their third consecutive Champions League quarter-final. That's happened only once before, between 2007-08 and 2009-10, and would be another marker of their undeniable progress under Mikel Arteta."
"But the fact is we are now very close to a reckoning up. And should this happen, it will be impossible on the basic numbers to exclude the current Arsenal team from a list of the greatest to have played the game."
Arsenal, currently leading the Premier League, faces Bayer Leverkusen in a Champions League first leg in Germany. Arsenal are strong favorites to reach their third consecutive Champions League quarter-final, a feat last achieved between 2007-08 and 2009-10. Arsenal topped the league stage with a perfect eight wins from eight matches, while Leverkusen finished 16th and qualified through playoffs. The article draws parallels between Arsenal's potential legacy and historically great teams, suggesting that if they continue their current trajectory, they could be ranked among football's all-time greatest sides, though critics note these legendary teams sustained excellence over longer periods.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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