Mikel Arteta is looking forward to Arsenal's Champions League showdown with Real Madrid. The two sides will clash next month in a mouth-watering quarter-final tie.

Real Madrid beat Atletico Madrid in a Champions League penalty shootout — again — to keep its title defense alive Wednesday and advance to the quarterfinals.

Mikel Arteta insists Arsenal are ‘very capable’ of beating Real Madrid in the Champions League quarter-finals, although he recognises it will be ‘very difficult’ for them to do so. The Gunners strolled into the last eight with a 9-3 aggregate victory over PSV over two legs of the last 16.