NIGHT FEVER

Odegaard: Playing in big games like this is the reason I came to Arsenal... beating Porto was massive... now we have to grow off this

- JOHN GROSS

MARTIN ODEGAARD insists he joined Arsenal for "nights like these" after their dramatic march into the Champions League quarter-finals.

The Gunners captain looks the bargain of the century because Arsenal signed him from Real Madrid on a permanent basis for just £ 30 million in 2021.

Odegaard had been the teenage wonderkid who dreamed of playing for Madrid but gave up on the Bernabeu to get regular football in north London.

That decision has paid rich rewards for both Odegaard and Arsenal as the Norway playmaker has developed into one of the best midfielders in Eurone

He was outstanding as Mikel Arteta's men overcame Porto on penalties at the Emirates to book the club's first Champions League quarter-final in 14 years.

Arsenal also sit at the top of the Premier League and the 25-year-old insists he always had faith that Arteta's (circled) vision would come good.

When asked whether it was nights like the triumph over Porto that convinced Odegaard to join the Gunners, he said: "Yeah, definitely.