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Josep Pedrerol Changes His Mind in 48 Hours, Message About the Comeback Against Arsenal

The Host of 'El Chiringuito de Jugones' Now Offers a New Version on the Quarterfinals

This Season for Real Madrid Is on the Wire. Carlo Ancelotti's players suffered a tough defeat against Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium, a thrashing that puts the possibility of advancing to the Champions League semifinals in severe jeopardy. Doubts about a possible comeback at Santiago Bernabéu are becoming more real.

That uncertainty about a hypothetical Real Madrid comeback has settled in given the irregular performance shown by the first-team footballers since the current soccer season began. However, opinions in favor of that feat that seems practically impossible are quick to appear. The mystique of the white club and Santiago Bernabéu are a scenario very difficult to dismiss.

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An Action from the Arsenal-Real Madrid Match at Emirates Stadium | Real Madrid Confidencial

Even though it is a truly adverse situation like the one Real Madrid is experiencing in the current edition of the European Cup. One of those who has changed his opinion about Real Madrid's comeback against Arsenal is Josep Pedrerol, who has confessed this change at the start of his program.

The director and presenter of "El Chiringuito de Jugones" began the latest program with that striking confession. "48 hours ago", just after the brutal thrashing at the Emirates Stadium, "I thought it was impossible". The terrible feelings and performance offered by Carlo Ancelotti's players at the gunner's stronghold motivated Josep Pedrerol to think it wasn't possible to definitively defeat Arsenal.

New Change

After flashing a half-smile, staring directly at the camera, Josep Pedrerol reveals the change: "Now, I believe". According to the veteran journalist, the passage of days has allowed him to focus on Real Madrid's possibilities in this comeback attempt in a very different way. This new point of view opens, in his opinion, real possibilities for the white club to reach the Champions League semifinals.

The reality is that Real Madrid faces its greatest sporting challenge to date in the current European soccer season after the thrashing received at the Emirates. The bad dynamics and the competitive doubts that Real Madrid has dragged this season finally emerged on the English field... and they could cost the team its advance to the 2025 Munich final.

Players from two different soccer teams compete for the ball in a match.
Rodrygo Goes and Declan Rice during the Arsenal-Real Madrid quarterfinal | Real Madrid Confidencial

Be that as it may, Josep Pedrerol makes it clear that he sees possibilities for Real Madrid to surprise. That elimination of Arsenal at Santiago Bernabéu would be against all odds for several factors: the most striking, without a doubt, is the overwhelming result in favor of the first leg. Arsenal arrives at the Concha Espina stronghold with a significant advantage that many consider definitive.

Not so Josep Pedrerol. The journalist confesses "to believe" in Real Madrid's comeback against the gunner entity, a change of scenario that would set a precedent. It would also add another myth to the already extensive collection of impossible feats that the merengue sports discipline has achieved in the Champions League throughout its history.

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