Arsenal 0-1 PSG - 3 takeaways as Gunners have mountain to climb

Arsenal suffered a 1-0 defeat to PSG in the first leg of the Champions League semi-final.
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Ousmane Dembele, Nuno Mendes
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Gunners pay price for poor start

It took just four minutes for the visitors to hit the lead after Dembele's superb first-touch strike got past David Raya, and that proved to be enough to win the contest.

The Gunners weren't at it early on, with the French side having three great chances inside the first 25 minutes as Arsenal struggled to deal with the visitors' forward thrusts.

One goal was all the separated the sides, and it came due to the Gunners' poor start to what was the biggest game of the year. Not ideal.

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