Mikel Merino scored Arsenal’s third goal in 17 minutes to cap a second thrashing after Declan Rice had scored two deadly free kicks.
Despite losing to Arsenal 3-0 in the first leg of their quarterfinal match on Tuesday, several Real Madrid players expressed their belief that they can advance to the Champions League semi-finals.
Lucas Vazquez echoed Bellingham‘s sentiment. “If there’s a team that can turn around a 3-0 loss, it’s Real Madrid,” he warned.
“We have to believe until the end,” Kylian Mbappe wrote on Instagram after telling reporters: “Of course we can come back.”
Neither the scoreline nor the chasm in quality seemed to deter Madrid’s ambitions about mounting a comeback when Arsenal travel to the Spanish capital on Wednesday, 16 April.
