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Arsenal coach said Monday his team's Champions League agony last season will help them in this season's campaign as they bid to win the competition for the first time.

The Gunners lost to eventual winners Paris Saint-Germain in the semi-finals and Arteta said his team were the wiser for it ahead of their opener at Athletic Bilbao on Tuesday.

"You take a lot of learnings from it -- it's painful because... it's about the expectation that we created and the real conviction that we had within the club, the team that we could go all the way," Arteta told a news conference at the San Mames.

"We showed a very high level of consistency and quality throughout the competition and (we'll) learn from it and try to be better."

The coach said he understood how various things needed to fall i

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