Arteta reacts to Bournemouth defeat | Interview | News

Mikel Arteta gave us his ideas following Saturday’s 2-0 defeat away to Bournemouth.

We have been lowered to 10 males within the thirtieth minute when William Saliba was despatched off for a foul on Evanilson, and second-half targets from Ryan Christie and Justin Kluivert ensured the hosts took all three factors.

“A really unhappy night, very dissatisfied with the end result, it was a extremely robust context once more,” Mikel mentioned. “It’s arduous sufficient to play right here 11 in opposition to 11, we made life very tough for ourselves once more, taking part in for 60-70 minutes with 10 males however I can’t fault the trouble of the gamers, how a lot they needed, how a lot they tried.

“However on this league, it’s the third time it’s occurred in eight video games, it’s simply an accident ready to occur, it’s too tough.

“It’s very tough as a result of clearly you haven’t deliberate for that, particularly that early, so any resolution, particularly with the quantity of accidents we have now in sure positions turns into more durable. However we tried, and it’s unbelievable, the spirit and the work charge and the way the boys tried to do it.

“We understood it higher and higher, we didn’t actually concede nothing other than one motion at first of the second half and with 0-0, we had the most important second within the recreation when Gabi [Martinelli] is one on one with the goalkeeper and we didn’t handle to attain the purpose and within the different finish, we concede a set piece.”

Mikel additionally had a number of phrases for our supporters, who have been in full voice all through the entire match at Vitality Stadium.

“Thanks a lot for travelling and for the reception to the gamers,” he mentioned. “Though we misplaced the sport, they will see it, they will see how a lot we tried. In the present day, we have now in charge ourselves.

“Soccer is a sport of errors, right now we made two huge errors that has price us the sport and we couldn’t flip it round and we have now to maneuver on and study the lesson.”