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Arsenal coach Mikel Arteta on tight 1-0 Shakhtar win
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23/10/2024
Arsenal coach Mikel Arteta on tight 1-0 Shakhtar win
21/10/2024
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Emirates Stadium, London, UK
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00:00
All good, all good.
00:07
OK, we're ready. We'll kick off with Clare.
00:10
Hi, Mikel. Maybe not the best performance tonight,
00:13
but on a night like that, is getting the win the most important thing for the team?
00:16
Well, I think two very different halves.
00:18
The first one, we were very dominant, created four big, big chances.
00:22
Obviously, we should have converted them and put the game to bed
00:26
with the amount of dominance and territory that we had.
00:29
The second half was very different.
00:32
We looked tired, we lacked that sharpness with and without the ball,
00:37
to regain the ball in the right moments as well in the right areas
00:40
and with the ball, giving certain balls away that allowed certain transitions.
00:44
We had two big chances again, missed a big penalty, obviously.
00:48
That emotion, again, it was difficult to overcome
00:51
and then we had to dig in, but credit to them.
00:53
They are a good side. The moment you allow them space,
00:55
you don't finish actions and you give them the chance to run,
00:58
they are a real threat.
01:00
But overall, it's Champions League, get the win, clean sheet, let's move on.
01:06
Hi, Mikel. Can I just ask about Ben White and Ricardo Calafiora?
01:11
Are they both injuries?
01:12
Ben, it was my decision to take him out.
01:15
He had a yellow card, we have played enough with them in recent periods
01:20
and they had a lot of density in that side, a lot of attacking players in this side.
01:26
I didn't want to take any chances there.
01:28
With Riquiz, it was something different, he had to come off because he felt something.
01:31
I don't know the extent of that.
01:33
So, yeah, in that sense, no great news.
01:39
Hi, Mikel.
01:40
Hi.
01:41
You're saying that you seem tired tonight.
01:43
You've obviously got a huge game coming up on Sunday.
01:46
How will you re-energise?
01:48
Will you be expecting more from them, more energy on Sunday?
01:51
Well, we played two and a half days ago after coming internationals,
01:55
after flying from Brazil and many countries.
01:57
So, I was expecting that we could drop off a little bit.
02:00
And the fact that, obviously, we put so much in the first half
02:03
and we didn't convert and get the distance in terms of the result
02:07
and the scoreline that far, I think we paid a little bit of that.
02:10
And then we made life more difficult for us
02:12
because, obviously, we started to give the ball away
02:14
and we were getting the ball in the right areas and it was more open.
02:17
So, that didn't help.
02:19
But we have now four days.
02:21
Believe me, on Sunday we will be flying.
02:23
Do you think you'll be OK coming Sunday?
02:25
You'll think that four or five days now you'll actually have...
02:28
Yeah, for sure.
02:29
We'll review what we have to do.
02:30
We have a day off and then two days to prepare the game.
02:33
And Sunday is far and we are more than comfortable
02:37
that we'll be in the right place.
02:39
Do you get the feeling that Martinelli is coming back to his best now?
02:43
Obviously, last season was a difficult time
02:44
and now he's looking a lot more sharp.
02:46
He looks really sharp.
02:47
He looks really fresh as well.
02:48
Fresher than anybody else on that pitch
02:50
because he could not start against Bournemouth
02:52
and you could tell that that was different to the rest.
02:55
He had another year, another level of play.
02:57
He started the game really well and he had a great performance today.
03:02
Mike?
03:03
Could you tell us, was it ever in your mind
03:06
to let Kai Havertz take the penalty tonight
03:08
because he had scored in seven consecutive home games
03:11
and if he did take the penalty and scored
03:13
it would have been a club record eighth?
03:15
Yes, well, they made that decision.
03:18
Obviously, the penalty taken normally is Bukayo and Martin
03:21
and after that we have two or three players who can take it.
03:23
They made the decision.
03:24
Unfortunately, Leo missed it.
03:26
But as you said, it was an opportunity missed.
03:32
Hi, Mikel.
03:33
Gabriel Jesus has been working hard to get back into his form.
03:37
How important do you think he will be going forward for you
03:43
for the rest of the season
03:44
to get back and recapture his form that he showed when he first came to the club?
03:48
Very important because obviously he can play in different positions and roles.
03:52
You see his attitude again was exceptional.
03:54
Very unlucky because he had two big chances
03:56
that he could have converted the goal in many other areas.
03:59
He was good and we need everybody.
04:05
You're fourth in the 36-team table.
04:07
Obviously, this game is to come tomorrow.
04:09
But how important is it, especially given the injuries you are taking up,
04:13
to try and avoid those extra two games in February,
04:17
in the play-off and finish in that topic?
04:19
That would be great.
04:20
But at the moment, it's very difficult to look at the table
04:23
because tomorrow it will change.
04:24
And obviously, the amount of games and different opponents
04:28
that we are playing against each other.
04:29
But, yes, Champions League.
04:31
Winning at home in this format especially is key,
04:35
keeping the clean sheet.
04:36
So, as you said, with the amount of injuries that we are dealing,
04:40
deal in a situation where we deal in happy and let's move on.
04:44
And finally, we'll go to questions in Spanish.
04:46
Miguel, good evening.
04:47
I also had to talk to Gabriel.
04:50
For me, it was Gabriel Jesus' first time.
04:52
He was very good.
04:54
The work he did, the participation he had in the process.
04:59
He had one or two chances to score and he didn't.
05:03
How important is it for you that he scores in the evaluation
05:06
that you do of his game?
05:08
How important is it for you that he scores in the evaluation
05:11
that you do of his game?
05:14
Well, there are things that, in the end, are not negotiated.
05:17
It's the commitment, it's the attitude and it's certain habits
05:20
that you have to have to play.
05:21
Gaviria has them absolutely all.
05:24
I think today he gave the feeling that he was going to create danger
05:27
when the ball was on his side, always on the opposite side.
05:30
And, yes, it's important because for the forwards,
05:33
in the end, scoring goals is what makes the difference,
05:35
what makes us win games.
05:36
He had two games, he had two chances, he couldn't convert.
05:39
But I think there have been, as you said,
05:41
many other very positive things too.
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