Mikel Arteta on Arsenal querying red card after Palace win and team cohesion (full presser part two)

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Mikel Arteta on Arsenal querying red card after Palace win and team cohesion

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00:00 Have you heard from the referee about Monday?

00:11 Yeah we have the report but I would keep that confidential to myself.

00:16 Does it irritate you that they are saying sorry but it doesn't make any difference?

00:25 I think every referee has the intention to have the best game and try to be as fair as

00:29 possible and make all the right decisions.

00:33 We all make decisions and when we do just apologising is the least that you can do and

00:39 try to improve and be better.

00:41 But they don't seem to improve.

00:42 They seem to, when the referee is playing, he's got a game on Saturday, he thinks it's

00:47 for official, there doesn't seem to be any real comeback from them unless it's a really

00:52 bad mistake.

00:53 There is no other solution at the moment.

00:55 When you have players, you have a certain amount of players, referees, they have a certain

00:58 amount of referees, they will try to do the same and Howard is trying to improve and change

01:03 that and he's trying various different ways to do it.

01:06 He's been very open about the process and what to expect on it and that's it.

01:11 We have to focus and my job is to focus on something else.

01:14 Can you do that when you have two players stepping into midfield?

01:32 Is that too much, too risky?

01:36 Depends where you have the ball, for how long you have the ball, in which areas, which other

01:41 relationships you have, what type of opponent you play and what spaces they are going to

01:45 give you, where they are going to try to threaten you.

01:49 Everything is possible.

01:50 I don't think that positions are defined by only certain qualities and especially in modern

01:57 football you see that a lot.

01:59 It must be difficult for Gabriel to understand considering he played every game last season

02:12 and he was one of your best players last season.

02:17 We have to focus on what is ahead and what is now and how we are going to evolve that.

02:23 There will be different relationships.

02:24 I know that Gabi will play a lot of games I'm sure and it's about bringing the competition

02:28 high and trying to make the team play better, better, better and better and be more dominant

02:33 and win more games.

02:34 That's the purpose of all of us.

02:36 Do you explain to someone like him why he's not playing?

02:41 Especially someone who has played a lot of minutes and games with us in the last year.

02:47 I don't know if he understands.

02:51 I told him and he understands the reason, whether he agrees or not.

02:56 That's something different but the best way to do it is when you play, just tell me how

03:02 blind and wrong I am.

03:03 On a similar theme, you used a lot of different combinations in the past few weeks.

03:14 At times the team has been naturally less fluid with the ball.

03:18 Is that something you are happy to sacrifice to work on these new ideas for the long term?

03:25 No I want maximum fluidity with the team.

03:28 The thing is there are teams that want to allow you to have more fluidity in certain

03:32 moments or areas and results are very driving to that.

03:37 Others that are going to allow you less.

03:39 We played three very different games because the City game was very different in terms

03:44 of fluidity.

03:47 We had moments in games against Forest and Palace that we had a lot of moments and others

03:52 that are very difficult when you are attacking 10 men in those spaces.

03:56 So fluidity is not probably the word that is going to come out like the best.

04:00 With the approach to the City game, would that be a game you look at and say, 'OK,

04:06 maybe if we're looking at Champions League we may approach things like that a bit more

04:11 than the way you approach Forest and Palace?'

04:14 Yes, for sure.

04:15 Every game is going to have different demands and is going to require different things from

04:20 us and that's why we have top players to try to accommodate them in the right roles

04:26 and spaces in relation to the game that we play.

04:30 On the injuries with Jesus and Sancheco, are you comfortable now that you've got players

04:35 who are of the quality where you are able to maybe play a different way and still be

04:40 effective?

04:42 In terms of their position?

04:44 Not just position but how you want to set up the team to play.

04:49 Yes, sure.

04:50 We have many more options and we have many more options that they can, within the formation

04:57 that we've been using, whether it's attacking or defending, that they can connect with each

05:02 other in the units in the way that we want, much more than we had the year before.

05:06 Should referees be as accountable to the referees on the fact that you lose a player for a game?

05:31 I don't really like the punishing mode to try to make somebody react because the mistakes

05:39 are for sure not intentional and we all make them so I don't think that's, in my opinion,

05:45 the solution.

05:46 There was a lot of emotion at the final whistle on Monday.

05:49 How do you keep that sort of... it seemed like it was a must-win three-pointer at the

05:55 end of the season, not the beginning.

05:57 How do you keep that sort of intensity going?

06:00 We want to win every game and we have to fight every game to deserve to win.

06:05 We were over the line, you have to celebrate it.

06:09 It's about the culture that we are building.

06:11 The demands here in this league is to win every game, that's it.

06:15 You cannot be satisfied when you don't.

06:18 As a high-profile Spaniard in this country, what's your take on the Spanish FA president's

06:30 decision to double down on his decision to kiss the Spaniard?

06:34 I already responded to that.

06:35 I apologise.

06:36 We covered that, Matt.

06:37 Sorry, it was the first question from Sky.

06:38 And finally we'll go to Issan from the Daily Mail.

06:39 With Tomi Asu's first yellow card against Palets, obviously it's to do with the throw-in,

06:49 does that make you reassess how you maybe time-manage the latter stages of games going

06:56 forward?

06:57 Yes, it's quite a lot of things that we have to manage.

07:02 What about if a winger picks up the ball because he wants to play fast and then he can't, but

07:06 then you decide to play a long throw, so you need the opposite full-back to come across

07:10 the pitch, get the towel and throw it.

07:13 Can we do that, Issan?

07:14 With Doug Reier on the bench against Palets, how did he react to being on the bench?

07:22 And with Aaron Ramsdale, how has he taken the new competition?

07:28 He's very good.

07:29 He's just arrived and he's settling in really, really well.

07:33 Aaron is building a really strong relationship with Aaron and I'm really happy with that.

07:36 Did David have any concerns about being on the bench?

07:40 Did he accept that?

07:41 No.

07:42 That's how it starts.

07:43 Good.

07:44 Thank you everyone.

07:45 We'll see you soon.

07:46 Take care.

07:47 Thank you.

07:48 Thank you.

07:49 Thank you.

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