Nevertheless, the night could have turned completely differently from the rice after he was sentenced to Kylien Mbappe's landing in the penalty area with Goalless, and also acquired a reservation that would exclude him from the semi -finals match.
However, the decision was rejected by the intervention of the videos assistant (VAR), and instead of negatively affecting, Rice gave the thumb to judgment and continued as if it had never happened.
“What games to support yourself as one of the best midfielders on this planet,” said Matthew Oppson at the BBC Radio 5.
“Diklan Rice does this in these two games.”
“You need games like this in your career. You need to reach such places to be judged correctly.
“He stood against the holders of this cup and not only competed, he runs the show, he runs the show in both games. He put himself in another segment.”
Rice's five objections to the legs were the most involved player, while he also got joint footage (four).
He has seven goals in all competitions this season, and he matches his best in one campaign.
Any list of the world's most midfield players should now include Rice, and he deserves to be completely praise.
“It is a special night for this club, a historic night for this club. We had a goal in this competition – we want to win this competition.”
Achieving this goal and this performance may remember the same way as Roy Kane in Turin – when Irish's inspired by Manchester United helped to beat Juventus to reach the 1999 Champions League final. Or Stephen Gerrard's heroic efforts when Liverpool fought from 3-0 to beat a penalty kick to raise the 2005 Cup in Istanbul.
But with the French PSG heroes after that, Arsenal and Rice are still working to do.
