Arteta on Arsenal carabao Cup exit after 2-0 Newcastle loss

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Arteta on Arsenal carabao Cup exit after 2-0 Newcastle loss  05/02/2024  St james' Park, Newcastle, Uk

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00:00I don't know if you have a question, raise your hand and we'll come to you if you're

00:27ready.

00:28Well, we had so many expectations obviously to believe that we could turn it around.

00:33We needed to generate momentum, especially in the first half.

00:36The game started in the first action almost with them scoring and then the goal being

00:43denied.

00:44Then we had the moment, two big moments with Martin.

00:47We didn't capitalise the next action, they scored the goal and obviously the game shifted.

00:52And then you need to stay cool, to score a goal as early as possible.

00:57We didn't manage to do that in the first half even though we had another big chance.

01:01In the second half then we started to struggle as the game went by.

01:05We didn't generate enough situation, establish ourselves in the finals enough.

01:12The game started to get away from us.

01:14Have Newcastle become one of your toughest opponents in English football now?

01:18Yeah, it's a tough opponent, yeah.

01:22You mentioned that Verdugo chance, it did feel like that had gone in and scored a 2-1

01:28in a very different game.

01:29Has it shown how fine margins are for Arsenal this season?

01:32Yeah, but when you want to win cup finals, you want to win trophies, at the end those

01:37are hard.

01:38They've been really effective in the box in the last two games that we've played against

01:41them and we haven't.

01:43Overall, that was the main difference.

01:45It's true that today we've been a bit more unsettled, especially when the game became

01:50more chaotic or when they were very direct with their play.

01:53Normally we are much more composed, today we lacked a bit of that and the game went

01:59away from us.

02:00Can I just ask for an update on Gabriel Martino who came off?

02:03Yeah, he felt something, I think it was his hamstring and he wasn't comfortable to continue

02:08so we'll have to do an MRI scan tomorrow to see the extent of the injury.

02:13Mikel, I think that's 11 games in 36 days you've had now since the start of this year.

02:19Was tonight partly just an exhaustion from that period and how important is the break

02:25that you've got now and the chance to go away?

02:27I wouldn't like, especially when we lose a game, because physically we were tired.

02:32We played so many games, we played so many games every three days and we knew that that

02:36was going to be a really high intensity one.

02:39Emotionally as well, it was a very different game.

02:42We needed to get there, to believe right until the end that we could do it and before that

02:48was expected, the game got away from us.

02:52Mikel, how much does it feel like an opportunity missed to get to a cup final?

02:58Well yeah, if you're in a semi-final and you don't get to the final, very much.

03:03Two trophies left to play for now, how much is going out here?

03:09Have you doubled your efforts in the recent season?

03:15Yeah, we need to swallow this one, it's a tough one.

03:18We had a lot of expectations, we knew the difficulty of the task because of the result

03:22that we brought from London, but there's nothing we can do right now.

03:27What we could do is, it was on the pitch a few minutes ago, now we have to look forward.

03:35First of all, I think this is going to be a painful one, and while we are in Dubai,

03:39recharge and go again because we still have a lot to play.

03:42Did you lose this at the first leg?

03:44Sorry?

03:45Did you lose this time at the first leg?

03:47Well, we made it really difficult, certainly for ourselves.

03:51Hi, Mikel.

03:52Defensively, your team today were characteristically sloppy in some moments

03:57and some mistakes that we don't usually see from them.

04:00As a manager, what do you put that down to?

04:05I mean, errors are part of football and we've been super consistent and really composed

04:10and today we gave them hope just by putting the ball long into our last line.

04:14And when we did that, we always looked vulnerable because we allowed them to run

04:20from this situation and they are really a dangerous team when they are able to do that.

04:24But certainly they don't want to do that, so what can I say?

04:28Were you a bit surprised by how Nicaso set up the five defenders?

04:32No.

04:35Finally, to Issa.

04:38Hi, Mika.

04:39From the first leg, Alexander Issa, obviously in the performance there and tonight,

04:42he again was on songbob.

04:44The kind of task was up for Salih, but I'm glad we were able to face off too hard

04:47because they did.

04:50Damn it.

04:51I know he has to evaluate opposition play, but it's clear that he had two actions to finish

04:55and you know what happened.

04:58OK, everyone. Thanks very much.

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