Mikel Arteta noticed his Arsenal facet’s unbeaten begin to the season come to an finish as they had been comprehensively overwhelmed 3-1 at Manchester United on Sunday.
A debut purpose from Antony and Marcus Rashford’s brace set the Red Devils on their approach, with the Gunners’ solely response coming by means of Bukayo Saka regardless of having fun with moments of domination.
The defeat introduced Arsenal’s profitable streak come to an finish, although they nonetheless lead the Premier League desk by some extent.
Here’s how the Arsenal boss mirrored on a sport filled with targets, VAR incidents and drama.
Thoughts on the sport?
“Very disappointed that we haven’t won the game because the game was there for the taking. We haven’t won it because we lacked discipline in certain moments to defend certain actions, and we weren’t ruthless enough in their box.
“We lacked self-discipline. We concede the primary purpose the place after the motion within the contact with Bruno we’re nonetheless three-vs-three however we don’t comply with our ideas and we concede the purpose when it’s two in opposition to one. After that it was all us, probability after probability, imposing ourselves in the best way we wished. I mentioned at half time to the boys ‘the game is there for the taking, if we play with more courage we’re going to win the sport.’
“After the 1-1 it should be two or three and then in our best moment we gave the ball away in a dangerous area and on top of that we stepped in when we can never do that in a dangerous area against that team and we suffered the goal. It’s a big lesson. If you want to win here you have to do everything so right and especially if you don’t do it there in the opponent’s goal with the number of chances we created.”
Does the defeat present Arsenal have extra to study?
“To be consistent with the top teams and challenging at the top of this league, you have to come here and play the way you want to play but win, and then it’s a very different story. To play the way we played here today, I want to see how many teams do that this season.”
Will the defeat impression Arsenal’s confidence?
“It won’t happen. That won’t happen because the performance is there and we know what we lacked today – the details to lose the game.
“You are right here and you’ve got a really completely different efficiency with the identical outcome after which it’s a tough one to take since you are questioning your stage. I don’t assume there’s any query in regards to the stage there.”
Did you discover something completely different about Man Utd?
“I’m not right here to speak about United. What I noticed is a really completely different Arsenal workforce that got here right here and performed the best way we wished to play in opposition to these world-class gamers and sadly we couldn’t get the outcome we deserved.”
Was it proper to disallow the purpose?
“I haven’t seen the motion however what they mentioned is that it was a gentle foul so it’s simply consistency. The gentle foul on Bukayo Saka with Mings will not be a penalty final week, the gentle foul in opposition to Aaron Ramsdale once we concede a purpose in opposition to Villa, it’s a purpose. So simply consistency. There’s nothing we will do now, it’s too late, but it surely’s simply consistency.”
Is it laborious to keep up steadiness with gamers out?
“You haven’t heard me [talk] about that and I don’t need any excuses as a result of these are the gamers we’ve. For me, they’re one of the best gamers. We give them confidence and perception and with these gamers, we play right here the best way we performed. That’s it. That’s not going to alter.”