{"id":6979,"date":"2025-04-10T06:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T06:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/6979\/"},"modified":"2025-04-10T06:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T06:07:09","slug":"thierry-henry-suggests-there-was-one-arsenal-player-who-was-even-better-than-declan-rice-vs-real-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/6979\/","title":{"rendered":"Thierry Henry suggests there was one Arsenal player who was even better than Declan Rice vs Real Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Declan Rice was the star of the show for Arsenal in their 3-0 win against Real Madrid \u2014 scoring a brace of free-kicks to produce one of the most memorable performances from an English player in Champions League history<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Arsenal<\/a> have plenty of outstanding midfielders such as Patrick Vieira, Cesc Fabregas and Emmanuel Petit to have donned the iconic red and white strip but it is worth questioning whether they have a display as impactful as the England international\u2019s in Europe.<\/p>\n

Regardless of whether the answer is yes or no, Thierry Henry\u2019s praise for Rice against Real Madrid<\/a> was deserved as the Frenchman rightly pinpointed that he was a man possessed in his left-sided attacking midfield role.<\/p>\n

But after Arsenal beat Real Madrid in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-final, Henry pinpointed how influential Bukayo Saka<\/a> was on the night.<\/p>\n

\"PhotoPhoto by David Price\/Arsenal FC via Getty ImagesThierry Henry hints Bukayo Saka was Arsenal\u2019s star man vs Real Madrid<\/p>\n

Saka is Thierry Henry\u2019s favourite player<\/a> and the former Arsenal striker was quick to point out that while Declan Rice came up trumps, it was the 23-year-old who ran the show against Real Madrid.<\/p>\n

Henry explained that Saka won both the free-kicks that Rice eventually scored and the way he drove with the ball and prompted the Real Madrid\u2019s players to foul him made him Arsenal\u2019s difference-maker.<\/p>\n

On CBS Sports, Thierry Henry<\/a> said: \u201cDeclan Rice came big on the two free-kicks but ultimately, for me, as I said, Bukayo Saka created everything, the two fouls were on him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery time, taking the ball, running past one to two to three to four players to go inside and get the free-kicks.\u201d<\/p>\n

What Declan Rice said about Bukayo Saka\u2019s display after Arsenal vs Real Madrid<\/p>\n

Thierry Henry revealed he hugely respects Saka<\/a> due to his rise to the top at Arsenal and against Real Madrid, what was clear to see is that he is right up there amongst the best players in the world.<\/p>\n

Rice was full of praise for his Gunners teammate while speaking to CBS Sports after his cracking performance on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cLook, to come back in the time he has is unbelievable, he\u2019s unreal.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a top guy, we need to be ready next week because the Bernabeu, we know what it\u2019s like to play there, he [Mikel Merino] can obviously tell you what it\u2019s like.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Declan Rice was the star of the show for Arsenal in their 3-0 win against Real Madrid \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[161,2920,94,79,4109,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-6979","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-arsenal","9":"tag-declan-rice","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-thierry-henry","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114312174271257631","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}