Under pressure Mikel Arteta demands a response against a PSV team aiming to add another upset to their record

It may be carnival time in Eindhoven this week but Arsenal are definitely not in town to party. Having seen their hopes of chasing down Liverpool in the Premier League title race slip away, Mikel Arteta knows that it is Champions League or bust for their chances of bringing home silverware this season.

The Arsenal manager was in a positive mood before the first leg of their last-16 tie against PSV, even if he refused to contemplate the prospect of a quarter-final showdown with either Real or Atlético Madrid should his side progress. After a campaign that has been repeatedly knocked off course by injuries and ill-discipline, matching last season’s achievement of reaching the last eight of this competition for the first time since 2010 would at least be something for Arteta.