Mikel Arteta: "There is something missing"
“I think we played and competed and went about it for the third time in six days, to deliver that performance, that dominance and that attacking and those set-pieces, indvidually they were outstanding,” says Arsenal’s manager of his side in an interview with Sky Sports.
“Those players were absolutely dead and to perform like that for 97 minutes without looking to the bench or looking for excuses was so impressive. They just went about it and I think it’s the best game we’ve played against Villa since I’ve been here. I think the level wee are playing is so, so good but there is something missing. Today we cannot concede the kind of goals we let in.”
On the disallowed goal: “From one angle it looks [like a handball] and from the other it doesn’t. It’s difficult because you have so much emotion, you celebrate it and it’s taken away from you. It’s not easy.”
Gabriel Martinelli: "We have to keep going"
“It’s a disappointing day,” says the Arsenal winger in an interview with Sky Sports. “We wanted to win the game, but we have to keep going. We trust in ourselves, and we have to keep going and improving - it is a long journey to go. We have to focus on ourselves.
“That’s football, that’s the Premier League, the most difficult league in the world. We have to see the game and see what we have done wrong and improve for the next games. We know our qualities and we know the potential we have and we trust in ourselves.”
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