Mikel Arteta took the blame for Arsenal’s 3-1 Carabao Cup defeat at West Ham.Arteta made six changes to his line-up for the fourth-round clash, starting Declan Rice on the bench on his Hammers homecoming.The midfielder, who lifted the Europa Conference League trophy as West Ham captain last season, was back at his old club for the first time since his £105million switch to the Gunners.But he will not be getting his hands on the Carabao Cup this season after strikes from Mohammed Kudus and Jarrod Bowen, following an early own goal by Ben White, sent Arsenal crashing out.
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00:00 Good evening, everybody.
00:07 Yeah, very disappointed.
00:12 Obviously, I'm responsible for that.
00:15 We are out of the cup and we wanted to play a very different game and especially wanted
00:20 to compete in a game like this where we discussed for 48 hours in a very different way to what
00:26 we've done.
00:27 Bringing on so many senior players, Zlatan Martinelli, Oliver Guardiola, it looked like
00:32 the game was over, was that to send a message to those that had been on the pitch?
00:37 There's no messages to send.
00:39 Whatever messages we send, we send them with words, we don't have to send them in a different
00:42 way.
00:43 We have to try to put a team that we believe was the best to try to compete today in the
00:48 right way to start the game.
00:50 And the game took a direction obviously because of the first goal, and we can discuss that,
00:56 but after that we still have to see much more from the team to earn the right to win in
01:01 a place like here.