Why Bournemouth Clash Won’t Help Prepare Arsenal for High-Stakes PSG Second Leg Clash | OneFootball

Paris Saint-Germain and Arsenal both have matches on Saturday as they prepare for the second leg of the UEFA Champions League semifinal on Wednesday night at Parc des Princes.

The Gunners will host Bournemouth at the Emirates Stadium. Meanwhile, PSG will visit Stade de la Meinau to face a hungry RC Strasbourg side chasing a Champions League berth.

Both teams will likely rotate their squads against tough opponents to stay focused on the crucial midweek clash. Just 90 minutes remain for one of them to secure a place in the final.

Can Bournemouth help Arsenal prepare for PSG?

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On Friday, Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta told reporters he doesn’t see similarities between Bournemouth and PSG’s styles. As a result, the Gunners’ gaffer noted that it’s good preparation for his side, which have one eye on Wednesday’s clash in the French capital.

“In terms of intensity and how they approach every duel, in the way of playing they are a bit different,” Arteta said (h/t Arsenal). “They want to achieve things that are very similar to PSG in certain ways so it’s not to practice about them, it’s just to be very efficient and very good in what we have to do against them in order to play the way that we want.”

It will be interesting to see whether this match against the Cherries helps Arsenal. Perhaps a win gives them positive momentum to believe they can overturn the one-goal deficit against the Ligue 1 side.