After beating Manchester United, Mikel Arteta, Arsenal manager, said, “I think we want to be very dangerous and very effective from every angle and every face of play.”
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| Arsenal manager, Mikel Arteta. Photo: arsenal.com |
The Spaniard expressed joy following his side’s win in their 500th game at the Emirates on Wednesday night, saying, he’s “very happy, especially after tweaking a few things for the second half”.
Arsenal defeated Manchester United 2-0 on Wednesday 4 December, 2024 in the Premier League 2024/25 match in London; it was the Gunners fourth consecutive top flight win over United in history.
According to arsenal.com, in his post-victory comments, Arteta said:
on the performance:
“Very happy. It’s a very special night, celebrating 100 games in this incredible stadium against an opponent with so much history between the clubs and the teams. The way we played, especially after tweaking a few things for the second half and how dominant we were, how convincing we were, not really conceding apart from the save from David after a very sloppy throw-in, so a lot of positives.”
on our success from set-pieces:
“We need that. I think we want to be very dangerous and very effective from every angle and every face of play. We worked on all of that. Today we couldn’t score from open play like we did against West Ham, against Sporting, so the team really has belief that from every angle we have the mentality to threaten the opponent and to try to score. Today was two set pieces, we constantly have threatening corners.”
on the position of the team in the league table:
“We don’t think at half-time where we are. I think we have to look at our own business, try to perform as we are at the moment and find ways to win the game. I think the team deserves a win again today which is very good and what the opposition does we cannot control that. You can see week in, week out even if teams are winning how difficult it is for everyone.”
on sending a message to the rest of the league:
“I don’t know, we want to have the right to win the games and if we perform the way we perform right now, we are going to win a lot of games. But now it is about Fulham, we have to go there and we know the experience of last season. We’re going to have to prepare really well to earn the right to win there and continue to do that, the rest we don’t know.”
