England captain and Tottenham legend Harry Kane has given Arsenal hope of beating PSG in the Champions League final.
The Gunners will attempt to become European champions for the first time on Saturday night as they take on French champions PSG in Budapest.
Arsenal ended their 22-year wait for a Premier League title last week and are now eyeing a stunning double under Mikel Arteta.
They face a PSG side who stormed to their first Champions League trophy last season and are on course for rare back-to-back titles.
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Kane’s Bayern Munich lost to PSG in the semi-finals and the prolific striker insists Luis Enrique’s side are a ‘difficult team to beat’.
But Kane believes the Champions League final will be ‘really even’ and hailed Arsenal as ‘one of the best teams in Europe’.
‘It’s two different styles playing against each other but I think it will be a really even test,’ Kane told Sky Sports. ‘Both teams have good qualities and can be dangerous.
‘PSG are obviously reigning champions so of course they’re a difficult team to beat but I think Arsenal have shown this year that they can be one of the best teams in Europe, for sure.
‘It will be an interesting final, we’ll have to see what happens.’
Kane named PSG as ‘slight favourites’ over Arsenal immediately after the French champions knocked Bayern Munich out of the Champions League.
‘I think it’s really even,’ said Kane, who enjoyed another brilliant season for German champions Bayern Munich, scoring 61 goals in 51 games.
‘Two totally different teams in the way they play but two very strong teams. It will be an interesting final, for sure.
‘I think PSG being the reigning champions obviously hold the right to maybe be slight favourites. But overall I think it will be two top teams going at it, it’ll be an even match.’
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After becoming the first Arsenal manager to win the Premier League since Arsene Wenger, Arteta insisted he was ‘convinced’ his team would go on to win the Champions League.
‘We have the opportunity to create new history in our club,’ Arteta said. ‘I am convinced we are going to do it.
‘We need this [celebratory] energy to flow and going against that, I think it will be a big mistake.
‘We talked about already what we have to do in Budapest, how we’re going to use all the incredible energy that we’re all carrying towards that final, and tomorrow we’re going to start to prepare it.
‘I said to the boys that this shirt now represents something else. We are the champions, and that brings a lot of confidence and a different kind of presence and energy to it.
‘But as well, another kind of responsibility as well. My job now and everybody at the club is going to be lift those standards now and achieve much more, because I think we are capable of doing it.’
PSG thrashed Inter Milan 5-0 in last year’s final, while Arsenal lost 2-1 to Barcelona in their last Champions League final 20 years ago.
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