Rio Ferdinand picks Champions League favourite before Arsenal vs PSG - 'I've got to be honest'

Rio Ferdinand has revealed who he thinks will win the UEFA Champions League this season. There are four teams left in the competition, next month.

Arsenal will host Paris Saint-Germain at the Emirates Stadium on Tuesday night before . Three of the four semi-finalists secured automatic qualification to the knockout stages of the competition via the 'league phase'.

Liverpool, who crashed out in the round of 16, topped the table, with Barcelona in second, Arsenal in third and Inter Milan in fourth. After a slow start to the campaign, PSG only managed to finish 15th, but .

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The French giants stormed past Stade Brestois in a two-legged play-off round, winning 10-0 on aggregate. By defeating their Ligue 1 rivals, where they faced Arne Slot's side.

PSG defeated Liverpool before clambering past Aston Villa. Despite showing signs of weakness against Unai Emery's side at Villa Park in the second leg of the quarterfinal, Ferdinand has backed the Parisians to get past Arsenal.

"I’m going to go for PSG – Inter Milan final, that’s what I’ll think it will be," said the former Manchester United defender on his . "And I think PSG will win on the day, just.

", that would be my ideal final where you’ve got two front threes who are rolling it back and have got licence to attack people in a systematic, robotic time."

Ferdinand added: "I think Inter get to the final, but my ideal would be PSG and Barca just for the fact , who are exciting.

"For entertainment purposes, PSG – Barca, but part of me would like Arsenal to get there. I wouldn’t mind Arsenal winning it, I’ve got to be honest.

"I like their players, I love [Bukayo] Saka, I love Declan [Rice], I love [Martin] Odegaard, [Jurrien] Timber, [Myles] Lewis-Skelly, [William] Saliba, Gabriel [Magalhaes]. These are players I like."

Speaking to reporters on Monday ahead of the heavyweight bout, Arteta was quizzed on the club's progress. The Arsenal manager said: "Especially with the circumstances that we had this season, how we have overcome a lot of issues and challenges and the fact that the team is here as one of the four best teams in Europe.

"It tells you about the mindset, the spirit and how much we really want it. We are making history, it's a beautiful story right now but we want much more."

On being brave, Arteta added: "You've seen it first hand the way we approach the game against Real Madrid, the way we approach the game when we played [PSG] before, the way we approach every week.

"That's not going to change, that's who we are, it's our biggest strength. The good thing as well about us is that we are able to adapt to very different contexts, and we have shown that again this season.

"Because sometimes you don't want to, but the teams are able to take you to a different game, and feeling comfortable playing that game, and overcoming that game with yourself in a position that you play more of the game that you want, is a big strength.

"I think this season again we have demonstrated that we have the capacity to do that..."