Arteta undertook 'big reflection' after title loss

Mikel Arteta admits that the first few weeks following Arsenal's Premier League title loss were 'very tough'.

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00:00 The first few weeks were very tough because I went through it and the first thing you

00:05 have to do is look in the mirror and understand, okay, is that something that you should have

00:10 done better, differently, and if that's the case, learn from it. And then, yeah, judge

00:17 yourself. Are you still the right person to drive the club, the team, forward in the way

00:23 that you want and do you have that energy and that belief that you want to do it? I

00:27 think it took a big reflection but the answer is yes and I feel with a lot of energy and

00:32 positiveness but I don't like losing and it takes me a while and that was a tough moment.

00:39 Probably I pretend that I stopped thinking as my wife but probably she would say something

00:43 very different. You need to go over it, you know, and being away I think it helps quite

00:48 a lot and it's the feeling when you have created that belief and you have the feeling that

00:56 you can do it and then it goes away but it's part of it and I think we all need that, you

01:01 know, to be better and that moment when you feel, okay, I failed or I didn't achieve what

01:07 I wanted, you still have the hunger and the desire to go again and that's a big motivation