Arteta on having the courage to make changes as Trossard's winner saves Arsenal blushes at Everton

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00:00 Good evening, everybody.

00:08 Cameras OK at the back?

00:10 Raise your hand if you want to ask a question, I will come to you as quickly as possible.

00:15 Kyle, from Liverpool London.

00:23 What are your thoughts on quite a tight game?

00:26 Extremely happy with the performance, the way we played, after six years of not being

00:32 able to do that.

00:34 That was a challenge in front of us and an opportunity as well, and we looked at everything

00:38 that we needed to do and I saw that on the pitch.

00:41 I think we dominated the game from start to finish.

00:44 We created a lot of chances, a lot of dominance in the game, we gave nothing away.

00:48 And to do that here, a big compliment to the players because it's not easy at all to do

00:53 that.

00:54 You said you were excited by the final margin, the set-pieces, a lot of short corners, was

00:59 that something you worked on before?

01:00 Was that something you identified as a weakness?

01:02 We worked on everything, as every manager, just to try to, when you prepare the game,

01:06 to try to expose the weaknesses of the opponents and hide yours.

01:09 That's the outcome of what we tried to do and then the result take care of itself.

01:14 We find openings in many other ways and we were neat enough in the last pass, in the

01:19 last action, in the last finish to do it and credit to them because as well they defend

01:22 the box really, really well.

01:24 Probably the game should have been very different if Martiali's goal was allowed.

01:31 It wasn't.

01:32 But super happy today.

01:33 How is Martiali?

01:34 Yeah, he felt it, I think it was the action after the run for the goal.

01:41 Normally, obviously, he's not a player that has any muscular issues but he had to come

01:46 off so that's it.

01:47 Just on the shot-caller for the goal, I think Sky had it at 26 seconds, it took Piquero

01:53 to take the clip.

01:54 Is that a deliberate tactic to try and put off the opponent or is it trying to hear from

02:03 your coach which routine he wants to use?

02:07 Obviously we prepare every situation in a way that we have to keep it for ourselves.

02:11 We don't want to give nothing, as you can imagine, to the opponents but we try to practice

02:15 and set pieces as something huge and for us as well because we generate that many, we

02:20 are in the final set a lot and we have to be really good at it because it's a way to

02:24 win the game like all the many clubs do it.

02:27 I know you spoke before the game about the idea of finishers coming on as substitutes,

02:30 that's the third game in a row that a substitute has scored.

02:33 Is that your message to the players now?

02:36 Even goalkeepers were not guaranteed a spot but you now need to see the game as a squad

02:41 game.

02:42 But no-one is guaranteed a spot.

02:43 I don't have the guarantee of a spot.

02:45 We're here to perform at the highest level and to contribute with our best capacity to

02:51 win games.

02:52 That's what we have to do and it's no different for anybody.

02:56 If we set ourselves those standards, whatever happens externally is never going to be bigger

03:00 than that and that's the aim that we have.

03:02 You know how important the football fans can be in the stadium, how pleased were you with

03:07 the way your team played in respect to controlling the crowd?

03:11 I know this crowd really well and you could feel it.

03:14 There are moments that they leave when the game changes and the momentum shifts and you

03:19 have to try to stay very far away from that game.

03:22 Because when they get that in that Rolley Course they are a really, really good team

03:25 and it's really difficult to get out of that and I think we've done that really well today.

03:29 What was the rationale behind getting David Garia to start this game?

03:36 The same rationale that Fabio played here, or Eddie played and Gabriel Jesus.

03:41 I haven't had a single question why Gabriel Jesus hasn't started.

03:45 He has won more trophies than anybody else, including me, in that dressing room.

03:50 But they don't.

03:51 So it's something that historically is done like this but I cannot have two players in

03:55 this position and don't play them.

03:57 David has tremendous qualities like Aaron has, like Kyle has, but we have to use them.

04:04 I'm a really young manager, I've only been three and a half years in the job and I have

04:09 a few regrets from what I've done.

04:11 One of them was that on two occasions I felt after 60 minutes and 85 minutes in two games

04:18 in this period to change the keeper in that moment.

04:22 And I didn't do it.

04:24 I didn't have the courage to do it.

04:26 But I'm able to take a winger or a striker and put a centre defender back and go to a

04:31 back five to hold that result.

04:33 And we drew those games and I was so unhappy.

04:37 And someone is going to do it.

04:39 And maybe it's...

04:40 That's strange.

04:42 Why?

04:43 Why not?

04:44 Tell me why not.

04:45 You have all the qualities in another goalkeeper to do something, something has happened and

04:48 you want to change momentum?

04:49 Do it.

04:50 You know?

04:51 And it's a regret that I had.

04:52 And now my feeling is to get everybody engaged in the team.

04:55 They have to play, regardless of competition.

04:58 And do it.

04:59 And it's my message.

05:00 And with Raya obviously with his sweeper-keeper ability, he's often, especially at corners

05:04 of the halfway line, a lot of the time outside his box.

05:07 Is that obviously an attraction that Raya brings to you to pick him?

05:11 We adapt to the qualities that our players have and try to make them play in their strength.

05:15 You know?

05:16 And there are games to do certain things, games to do other things that in my opinion

05:20 was really important against Anel Zevratan.

05:22 And we made the decision to try to benefit the team.

05:25 That's it.

05:26 You know?

05:27 That's it.

05:28 Just to pick up on your answer there, can you elaborate on the two games?

05:33 No.

05:34 How would you want Ryan to react?

05:38 Sorry?

05:39 How would you want Aaron to react?

05:41 The same like Gabriel Jesus.

05:43 The same like Kyle Harvick.

05:44 The same like Tome Yasso.

05:46 Exactly the same.

05:48 We play with 11 players.

05:50 We don't play with 10 plus 1 or sometimes with 10, sometimes with 9.

05:53 Exactly the same.

05:56 Okay guys, thanks very much.

05:57 Thank you.

05:58 Thank you.

05:59 Thank you.

06:00 Thank you.

06:01 Thank you.

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