Winning trophy is a bonus and arsenal must be going to the final first. It's too early in talking about the possibility of arsenal to win the trophy since this one being unfavored to win the trophy this season. City and real madrid are still holding the biggest chances to win the UCL trophy this season.
Arsenal needs to go to the semi final first before we can continue to talk how big arsenal's possibility to win UCL this season. Club needs able to perform even better compared to the last time when arsenal played in UCL. Arsenal was unable going to the current round last time and team is just showing another improvment happened to the club.
It's very good for arteta to put all of his focus into the UCL and EPL. Arsenal is leading the way to get EPL trophy but UCL seems still very far for the club to get it. It sounds too good to be true for arsenal to win UCL this season. Being able to play in the final will be good enough for the club.
That's right, talking about the Champions League is not as easy as talking about the local league because there are many strong competitors from other leagues we know Arsenal is the strongest team in the Premier League but we know they have little experience here there are still other teams from the Premier League who have greater experience and opportunities, yes as you said Manchester City is one of the main candidates.
This season we have 4 leagues that will compete with each other 2 from Premier League, 3 from Laliga, 2 from Bundesliga and 1 from League 1 each of these leagues has a favorite team and potentially reach the semifinals. Bookies have provided betting markets for this tournament and so far Manchester City is still the favourite the 2nd option is Arsenal and the 3rd is Real Madrid. I don't expect the final to be between Manchester City vs Arsenal lol because we have seen them compete in the Premier League.
The Champions League always presents surprises, so it is difficult to predict who will win the trophy this season, we will wait to see how the draw for the quarter-finals turns out first. Manchester City, Real Madrid and Arsenal should be considered as the main candidates, followed by Bayern Munich, Dortmund, Barcelona, PSG and Atletico Madrid. All the teams that have qualified for the quarter-finals are the strongest teams so far, even though some of them are not very consistent in their Domestic League, but we have seen that some of these teams are able to create surprises, experience and mentality in dealing with pressure is very decisive in Champions League.
Besides that, everything could be very different if the draw resulted in a mini-final, meaning that the favorite teams met too early in the quarter-finals, for example Manchester City versus Real Madrid. It is clear that one of them will qualify for the semifinals, this is also very possible and it is definitely very difficult to predict the outcome of the match. Regarding Arsenal, they are indeed in the best performance, which in my opinion Arteta squad has a big chance of advancing to the semifinals this season.