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Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta says Bukayo Saka is to be out for a few months following his injury  27/12/2024  Emirates Stadium, London, UK

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00:00What did you make of the performance?

00:02Very happy with the victory, with the clean sheet and with big parts of the game.

00:09It's a really difficult opposition, we play in so many games, you see that teams are winning

00:16for very small margins, today we could have done the margins much bigger, at the end we

00:20didn't.

00:21But I will hold our nerves in the last few minutes, you know, to defend well in the areas

00:26that we had to do and overall very happy.

00:28Is the frustration that you should have scored more?

00:31More, more.

00:32And we had some big openings as well in the second half, they were a little bit more stressed,

00:36they were a bit more aggressive.

00:38The big header of Gaby as well, one yard.

00:41So we should have scored more, but it's the consistency, the team conceded nothing again,

00:46the defensive behaviours were again outstanding.

00:49So that's something that's going to give us always the chance to win games.

00:54Kaya, for the last time.

00:56Last question.

00:57Last question.

00:58For your career.

00:59About Kaya Saka, there's been a few reports suggesting that he's had surgery on his

01:04hand injury, can you confirm or deny that?

01:07I would prefer to leave that to the doctor himself, but he had a procedure, everything

01:11went well, but unfortunately he will be out for many, many weeks.

01:15And also this day, what's the news on Raheem Sterling as well?

01:20Yes, the news with Raheem Sterling I think is better, we have to see this week how he

01:23evolves but we expect the knee injury to probably take longer than actually the way the knee

01:30has evolved in the last few days.

01:32Hopefully that's good because we need him.

01:36Did you see enough from Debbio Martinelli out on the line to think he could be the long-term

01:40solution out there?

01:42As I said, I think the replacement of B is going to be the team.

01:45And that unit in particular and having minutes together and asking different things and doing

01:51that.

01:52There were moments that it flowed really well, there were moments that we can still have

01:55some work to do there and improve it and adapt to the qualities of the individuals and I'm

02:01certain that we're going to do that.

02:04Hi Mikel, really different scorelines obviously to the Crystal Palace game, much narrower

02:08margin of victory, but in terms of the complete performance and not giving anything away,

02:14do you think this was a more satisfying performance for you as manager?

02:18In terms of how well we controlled the position?

02:21Ten times because we conceded 14 or 15 shots against Palace and it's nothing that we normally

02:27do.

02:28So overall I think this one was much better, but it's about the goals as well and the beauty

02:33of it and entertaining people and that one probably was better for them.

02:39Have you got any more definitive timeline on when he might be back now he's had surgery?

02:47I said many weeks so I think it will be more than two months.

02:51I don't know exactly how much longer, I think it will depend on how that scar tissue starts

02:58to heal the first week or so, mobility of that.

03:02Let's see, it's very difficult to say.

03:04We saw tonight that defensive shape, how important or how more important will that

03:08be when you haven't got Bukayo for these two months that you've got a defence that's so

03:11strong and so reliable like that?

03:13Well it's always important because as well with Bukayo that doesn't mean that we're going

03:17to score three and four goals every game.

03:19We have to rely on the team, that's the biggest strength of us, we never rely on individuals

03:23scoring 25, 30 goals and we have managed to be very, very competitive still and we're

03:28going to manage to do that.

03:30We'll go to James finally and then we'll go to the 5pm embargo.

03:34You mentioned the moments where the team replaced Bukayo, well what was happening in those moments

03:39that you really liked?

03:40That he needed, Gavin needs people around him, he needs constant threat, he needs to

03:44be always in the last line when the ball is on his side, that he has relationships there

03:49and people close to him because he's very intuitive, he's always a threat.

03:52If you isolate him too much he's going to suffer, especially playing with a natural

03:57foot on the right and that's things that we can evolve and improve.

Saka to be out for a few months! - Arteta

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