Mikel Arteta felt Arsenal should have taken something from this evening’s 1-0 defeat to Aston Villa after squandering a series of chances following John McGinn’s early opener.
Watching from the stands, the manager was clearly frustrated with his side’s lack of cutting edge in the final third.
He was probably even more annoyed by some of the decisions that went against his side – Gabriel Jesus felt he should have been awarded a penalty early in the second half and Kai Havertz had a late goal ruled out for a handball – but the Spaniard wouldn’t be drawn into making further comments about the officials.
Here’s what he had to say when he spoke to Sky Sports…
On his team’s performance…
Yeah, a really good performance. I thought we were the better team and we didn’t deserve to lose the game at all, but this is football.
On the referee ruling out a late equaliser for handball…
I prefer not to comment.
On the officials not awarding Gabriel Jesus a penalty…
No, I think that’s even clearer.
On having an opinion but not wanting to say anything for fear of getting in trouble…
I do, a big opinion, yes.
On his side not scoring…
We have to put the ball in the net and that’s the only thing that we missed today because we generated some big, big chances. We were winning the ball really high up. Villa didn’t create anything but we still lost the game.
On whether fatigue was a factor…
No, because a team that is fatigued, it doesn’t press, it doesn’t go, it doesn’t insist, it doesn’t dominate the game like we did today. It’s impossible.
On Villa deserving credit…
Yeah, they are a really good side and they are in a good moment right now and we congratulate them, that’s what we have to do.
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