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Arteta delighted with Arsenal's 4-0 UEFA Champions League thrashing of PSV
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20/09/2023
Arsenal were victorious in their first UEFA Champions League match this season finishing with a 4-0 win over European rivals PSV Eindhoven.
Boss Mikel Arteta comments on the deserved win for the team who faced challenges with pace and versatility creating an enjoyable game
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It was a beautiful night, obviously after such a long time. We wanted to produce the
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right performance and try to win the game. It was great to see the atmosphere, the Champions
00:13
League music everywhere. I think it was getting a bit emotional before it and we showed. I
00:18
think especially in both boxes today we were exceptional and that was the difference in
00:22
the game I think.
00:23
Were you emotional?
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I was, yeah. I was really excited about it. I wanted to control it, I don't want to show
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too much but I was really excited. At the end it's part of the journey, the journey
00:34
started last year and we earned the right to be in this competition which is what we
00:38
have to be as a club and now we have the responsibility to produce what we have to produce to stay
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at this level.
00:45
It might seem strange to say after a 4-0 win but do you think there's potentially even
00:51
more you could have seen from your side today? There were a few chances put away, not put
00:56
away sorry, and more you maybe could have done. So is it almost more to come even after
01:00
a 4-0 win?
01:01
I agree and especially from box to box there were things we should have done much, much
01:06
better and that's every single day you have to be at it, you have to be really analytical
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to try to improve but at the same time credit to the boys to play the way they play in certain
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moments and to score four goals in the Champions League against a team that hasn't lost a single
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game, credit to them as well.
01:24
You said yourself you tried to take the emotion out of it despite being emotional yourself,
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you must have been impressed with the way your players, for some of them the biggest
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night of their careers, managed to do exactly the same?
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I could sense that and I think we have drive that energy and that emotion in the right
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way. Talking about the enjoyment, you know we have to obviously compete at this level
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but there has to be a part that we have to enjoy as well, those moments, those nights
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because it's what at the end you remember and I think it's going to be a good memory.
02:00
Do you think in a way this was a blessing for the team, getting away from playing against
02:06
big defensive blocks in the Premier League and being able to express and click and find
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that sort of fun, joyous, attacking football at last season, find that identity a bit more?
02:17
Well obviously every opponent brings different challenges, as well when you score early in
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the game that helps and that hasn't been the case too much this season and that's why we
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have to face opponents doing other things as well. But certainly when you see this team
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running and full of pace and being vertical it's a joy to watch.
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Given you've got the derby here on Sunday, was it particularly pleasing that you scored
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three goals in the first half and were presumably able to start saving players in the last stages?
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Yes, we could manage the minutes of some of them, especially because where they're coming
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from and with the national team they played a lot of minutes. And as well to give players
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two minutes that fully deserves. I was really emotional when I saw the reception on Emile
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as well, he's a player that hasn't played much yet and to get the reception he got was
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well deserved and I'm so happy for him as well.
03:10
You talked about wanting your team to kill games off earlier, they did that in the first
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half, how pleasing were you about that?
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Very good and that's what we have to do. That's why I mentioned in the box we were exceptional
03:23
today, we were ruthless, we took our chances, the finishing quality was top but as well
03:28
we could have done more. And probably the manager, we are looking sometimes a bit more
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on that and in other parts.
03:34
It's obviously Pikaia's first game in Champions League tonight, you wouldn't really have known
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it from watching him, did he show he sort of deserves to be on this stage tonight?
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Yes, but to be fair some of the boys now they play at an international level and they have
03:48
big roles in their national teams and you can sense that as well, that they are not
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just part of the squad, they have quite a responsibility and they are big players there
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and that's very helpful for the team.
03:58
Obviously David Garay was picked over Aaron Ramsey again tonight, what was the thinking
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behind that decision, maybe not choosing to rotate the goalkeepers as you hinted you
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might do at the weekend?
04:07
It's the belief that I had in the team that I wanted to play with the expected opponent
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and not only that, the changes that we made with other players it was for the same reason.
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We all know how hard it is to compete in the Premier League and the Champions League, but
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is that sort of performance better preparation than a week at home?
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Winning always helps and when you see that dressing room how happy they were today, the
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energy, if tomorrow I tell them to train they will train for sure and now we have three
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days to prepare a big game again, a really special game for us and we'll try to do it
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in the best way.
04:43
Miguel, you saw Kai Havertz come in different roles throughout the game, how pleased were
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you with his performance, did you get closer to the full confident player that he is and
04:53
do we know he can be here?
04:54
He was very connected today in the game and it's true that by asking him to play in two
04:59
different roles in regards to the opponent's behaviours and he's so intelligent the way
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he does it, he's just finishing one or two actions that we had again and he's coming
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and he's so willing to do it.
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Thank you.
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