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Arteta on challenge of Manchester United and Myles Lewis Skelly learning lessons (Full Presser part two)
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07/03/2025
Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta on the challenge of facing Manchester United and Myles Lewis Skelly learning lesson
London Colney, London, UK
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00:00
I just wanted to ask you a little bit more about Myles, if that's okay.
00:05
I thought you were going to ask more about my wife!
00:07
LAUGHTER
00:13
So what did you say to Myles after...
00:16
Clearly nobody likes being substituted, especially not in the first half.
00:19
How did you sort of sell it to him afterwards?
00:22
Today. Today I did.
00:24
When the dust settled.
00:26
That's what you say in English, yeah?
00:28
And talk openly, you know?
00:30
What can we learn from that situation?
00:32
How can we expose the team?
00:34
What are the things that we have to try to avoid
00:37
without losing his essence
00:39
that your colleague was talking to a little bit before.
00:42
And that's what we have to do.
00:44
Draw, understand where that line is.
00:46
Because he's a superb player, he has attitude, he has courage.
00:49
What he transmits, certainly we have to maintain that.
00:53
And just understanding there is reward.
00:55
What part of the pitch you are in
00:57
when you have to bet certain things
01:01
that can give you a big reward.
01:03
And sometimes, guys, stay away from that bet
01:05
because it's not good for us.
01:07
He's obviously a young kid.
01:09
Is that going to happen?
01:11
These kind of instinctive moments
01:13
where he doesn't have the experience maybe to hold back.
01:16
Is that what you're trying to fight?
01:18
But it happens with the senior ones as well.
01:20
A lot.
01:22
And depending on the part of the pitch that you play,
01:25
when you make that mistake or you mistime it,
01:28
the consequences are terrible.
01:30
And from the front players, it happens the same.
01:33
It's for everybody.
01:35
We are in a constant learning process.
01:37
And that one, you have to be lucky.
01:39
Because to learn when you won, much, much better.
01:43
Believe me.
01:45
For your confidence and as well for how your team
01:48
and your colleagues perceive you.
01:50
So he was lucky in that.
01:53
You said he spoke today.
01:55
Was that just a little one-on-one chat?
01:57
No, no. Very good.
01:59
One-on-one.
02:01
Mike from the Mirror.
02:03
Mikel, Arsene Wenger used to say
02:06
that the game after his team had scored 4-5-6
02:10
is often the most dangerous one
02:12
because there's often a natural comedown
02:15
from plundering plenty of goals.
02:20
Having gone 0-0-7, James Bond style, are you...?
02:25
That's a good analogy.
02:27
And now, boom!
02:31
I hope so, that we can replicate that.
02:34
We discuss just understanding why you scored the goals
02:37
and can you consistently provide those moments,
02:42
those situations as often as possible
02:44
to increase the probability of happening again.
02:46
That's what we have to do.
02:48
But Sunday is going to be a very different game.
02:51
We are very clear on that.
02:53
We're going to have to learn very different things
02:56
as well to help United.
02:58
At Old Trafford last season, you won
03:00
on the penultimate weekend of the season
03:02
to take it to the last day.
03:04
Although a little bit further away from the last day,
03:08
a win at Old Trafford on Sunday
03:10
would keep you in the hunt, wouldn't it?
03:13
Whatever Liverpool do, it would keep you in the hunt.
03:15
It's certainly going to keep us the momentum going,
03:17
but we're going to have to be really good
03:19
to earn the right to do that.
03:20
We know historically as well how tough it is to win there.
03:23
We're going to do our best and earn the right to win it.
03:29
As you said, Mikel, it's going to be a different game
03:31
on Sunday to the other day.
03:33
In the home game against United,
03:35
it was two goals from set-pieces which made the difference.
03:40
In recent weeks, both in the league and at home,
03:43
you haven't scored a goal from a set-piece.
03:46
What are the reasons for that?
03:48
What are you doing to try and bring back those set-piece goals?
03:53
Various reasons.
03:55
In some of the games, we generated a lot of situations
03:59
and chances.
04:00
Scoring a goal was something different.
04:02
In others, we haven't been at our level.
04:04
Sometimes it's been the delivery, sometimes the timing,
04:07
sometimes the execution.
04:09
Then it's something that plays a big part,
04:11
which is the opposition as well.
04:13
They know how to defend.
04:15
They are prepared very well for that
04:17
because they know it's a big threat of ours.
04:20
That's it.
04:21
I think we did very well two or three days ago.
04:23
We did very well against Forest.
04:25
They will come, but we have to insist
04:27
and be very persistent on it.
04:29
You miss Pika'ai in all sorts of ways,
04:32
but Pika'ai's deliveries, particularly the in-swing ones,
04:35
is that a big factor?
04:37
That's another one, obviously.
04:39
When you have it from both sides,
04:41
that level of consistency and quality, it helps.
04:44
Again, scoring goals and set-pieces
04:46
is never a flat line that you're going to maintain.
04:49
It's impossible, it's never been done.
04:51
It should not generate frustration.
04:54
Yes, we'll do it better, because even when we're doing really well,
04:57
I used to say we can still do much better
04:59
because we are not still consistent
05:01
doing almost everything perfectly in the right time.
05:04
So now it's exactly the same.
05:06
Yes, sir?
05:07
Hi, Mika'el.
05:08
With the situation Ruben Almero
05:10
was obviously in Heritage United,
05:12
it's a very sticky one to say the least.
05:14
When you took over at Arsenal,
05:16
it was a similarly difficult situation too.
05:18
Can you see comparisons between the two situations,
05:20
and how do you think Ruben's done so far?
05:22
No, I think it's very different situations.
05:24
I have massive respect for Ruben
05:27
and United, what they are trying to do as well.
05:30
Every situation is different.
05:32
How would you say they're different?
05:34
I don't want to talk about that.
05:36
I look after my garden, my club,
05:38
and what the rest do, they try to do their best thing.
05:42
On Chido, obviously I know he's no longer at Arsenal,
05:44
but what are the attributes that you saw from him
05:47
whenever you saw him around the club?
05:50
Massive goal threat, attitude and love
05:53
to be living inside the box
05:55
and capacity to score in many different ways.
05:58
That was him.
05:59
And finally to Gary for the times there.
06:01
Can I just ask you,
06:02
do you think you've done anything more
06:04
as a club to persuade Chido to stay?
06:08
I don't know.
06:09
To persuade a player to stay,
06:11
a player has to be willing to be with us
06:14
and commit to us.
06:16
I don't know specifically.
06:18
Both parties probably will feel very different about it.
06:21
The reality is that he's decided to move
06:23
and we have to move on from that.
06:26
Is it now harder to persuade some of the youngsters
06:29
to stay when there's money elsewhere
06:33
from other clubs who can offer to the young kids?
06:36
It depends on what is the reason
06:38
why they want to go somewhere else.
06:40
That's it.
06:41
OK, guys. Thanks very much.
06:42
OK. Thank you, guys.
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