Arsenal supervisor Mikel Arteta spoke to BBC Sport after Wednesday’s draw in opposition to Crystal Palace: “We dropped our requirements and credit score to Crystal Palace. We struggled to seek out consistency within the recreation. We gave the ball away in merely methods and we had been late in the whole lot we did. I’m disenchanted.”
On whether or not the schedule performs an element: “Sure, it does. And we’ve got so many gamers out and never out there and subsequently you drop sure requirements. However we’ve got to do significantly better than we did.”
On whether or not gamers’ thoughts had been on the Champions League semi-finals with Paris St-Germain that start subsequent Wednesday: “We have now spoken about avoiding our focus being elsewhere. We have now sufficient time to arrange for PSG however right here we did not ship sufficient rights to win the sport.
“It’s good to have an extended hole. We’d like it and we want gamers again to full energy.”
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This was solely the third time underneath Mikel Arteta that Arsenal didn’t win a Premier League recreation during which they twice took the lead – the others had been 2-2 attracts in opposition to Tottenham (September 2023) and Liverpool (October 2024).
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For the reason that begin of final season, Arsenal have scored 38 set-piece targets (excluding penalties) within the Premier League – six greater than every other aspect.
