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Paris St Germain head coach Luis Enrique has lavished praise on Arsenal ahead of this month\u2019s Champions League final, dubbing them the best team in the world without the ball.<\/p>\n
Arsenal<\/strong> ended their 22-year wait for the Premier League title on Tuesday and Luis Enrique told reporters it was no surprise they had also reached the final of Europe\u2019s elite club competition.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve got experience of playing against Mikel Arteta\u2019s Arsenal, and we know full well how good they are on the ball,\u201d Enrique<\/strong> said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n \u201cOff the ball, they\u2019re the best team in the world, no doubt about it. With the ball, they\u2019re capable of scoring plenty of goals.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd it\u2019s only natural to see them in the final. It\u2019ll be a very tough final with two teams approaching it in two different ways. But I think we\u2019re in for a cracking final.\u201d<\/p>\n READ: Arsenal dominate ranking of ways to win title from worst to best \u2013 but 2026 effort is 30th<\/strong><\/p>\n The PSG boss stressed the importance of pressing and defending ahead of the Champions League final in Budapest on May 30, highlighting star forward Ousmane Dembele\u2019s work rate.<\/p>\n \u201cHe defends all the time, no matter the match or the minute,\u201d the Spanish manager said.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s important to have him because we tend to always highlight what the forwards do when they score goals or provide assists, but we don\u2019t highlight enough what he does as a defender. When a team doesn\u2019t have the ball, you have to defend.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt brought back a lot of memories but this is the here and now, this is the Arsenal of today,\u201d Seaman said on Sky Sports on Arsenal winning the Premier League.<\/p>\n READ MORE: <\/span>The six Premier League tables to show how Arsenal proved Neville wrong and won the title<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cWhat\u2019s happened now is every Arsenal fan has seen us win the league which is so special.<\/p>\n \u201cYou wouldn\u2019t have thought that (it would take 22 years to win a title) because in the seasons before that, when I was at the club, we won trophies so that was expected of us.<\/p>\n \u201cFor it to go that long, it\u2019s a shame. But it doesn\u2019t matter now because we\u2019ve finally done it again.<\/p>\n \u201cThe release of pressure now will be so great that I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if this team go on to win more and more because they\u2019ve sampled it now, they know what it feels like.\u201d<\/p>\n He added: \u201cThree seasons of coming second is normally a positive but a lot of people turned it into a negative. But it wasn\u2019t, it was always a progression.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve gone one step further, one step further and now we\u2019re in with a great chance of winning a really, really special double.\u201d<\/p>\n When asked for his prediction ahead of the Champions League final later this month, Seaman replied: \u201cIt\u2019s all about winning, it\u2019s not how we play.<\/p>\n \u201cBut the old famous scoreline, \u20181-0 to the Arsenal\u2019, has still got a great sound to it.\u201d<\/p>\n READ NEXT: <\/span>Did Arsenal have a \u2018defining moment\u2019 in their Premier League title win?<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/div>\nDavid Seaman reveals Champions League final prediction<\/h2>\n