Mikel Arteta didn’t wish to blame accidents to key ahead gamers within the aftermath of Arsenal’s shock 1-0 defeat to West Ham United at Emirates Stadium.
Jarrod Bowen scored the one objective of the sport simply earlier than half-time to carry Arsenal’s 15-match unbeaten run to an in depth, additionally inflicting a primary house defeat on Arteta’s aspect this season.
Arsenal had simply two pictures on course all through your entire sport and had been severely missing in creativity all through. Not even captain Martin Odegaard may unpick West Ham’s resilient defence, who regarded assured all through towards a entrance three comprised of 17-year-old Ethan Nwaneri, makeshift centre-forward Mikel Merino and Leandro Trossard.
Regardless of being with out Bukayo Saka, Kai Havertz and Gabriel Martinelli because of harm, Arteta didn’t wish to use that as an excuse and admitted he was “very indignant” with the efficiency put in by his gamers.
“No, no and I refuse that fully as a result of I’m speaking concerning the requirements of the gamers and the workforce that we performed in the present day, me included,” Arteta mentioned, requested pointedly if lacking personnel was an element. “And that was nowhere close to the degrees that we have now to hit to have the chance to win a Premier League.
“Right this moment no, we had been very constant, sure, however soccer is about what you do in the present day and in the present day, nowhere close to.
“Yeah, very disenchanted, clearly very indignant as properly. I feel it’s a must to congratulate West Ham for the victory and the sport that they performed,” he continued. “However as properly I feel loads from our aspect that we by no means received proper they usually did not permit us to get sufficient momentum, sufficient sequence of play with constructive motion that would ship into conditions of menace for them.
“And regardless that the ball that we had and 20 pictures of that, I by no means felt that we had been at the usual and the extent that we wanted. To start with to have extra menace after which to not permit them to run as a result of we misplaced quite a lot of balls that we allowed West Ham to run in very harmful positions.
“We’ve got to be [angry at ourselves], I hope we’re very a lot as a result of we did not hit the degrees in the present day and I’m very a lot accountable of that so I’m very, very indignant.”
Arsenal stay eight factors behind leaders Liverpool, who’ve slipped up in two of their final three Premier League outings, and will path by 11 come the top of the weekend because the Reds look to down reigning champions Manchester Metropolis on the Etihad Stadium.
