Arteta on challenge of Manchester United and Myles Lewis Skelly learning lessons (Full Presser part two)

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Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta on the challenge of facing Manchester United and Myles Lewis Skelly learning lesson London Colney, London, UK

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00:00I just wanted to ask you a little bit more about Myles, if that's okay.

00:05I thought you were going to ask more about my wife!

00:07LAUGHTER

00:13So what did you say to Myles after...

00:16Clearly nobody likes being substituted, especially not in the first half.

00:19How did you sort of sell it to him afterwards?

00:22Today. Today I did.

00:24When the dust settled.

00:26That's what you say in English, yeah?

00:28And talk openly, you know?

00:30What can we learn from that situation?

00:32How can we expose the team?

00:34What are the things that we have to try to avoid

00:37without losing his essence

00:39that your colleague was talking to a little bit before.

00:42And that's what we have to do.

00:44Draw, understand where that line is.

00:46Because he's a superb player, he has attitude, he has courage.

00:49What he transmits, certainly we have to maintain that.

00:53And just understanding there is reward.

00:55What part of the pitch you are in

00:57when you have to bet certain things

01:01that can give you a big reward.

01:03And sometimes, guys, stay away from that bet

01:05because it's not good for us.

01:07He's obviously a young kid.

01:09Is that going to happen?

01:11These kind of instinctive moments

01:13where he doesn't have the experience maybe to hold back.

01:16Is that what you're trying to fight?

01:18But it happens with the senior ones as well.

01:20A lot.

01:22And depending on the part of the pitch that you play,

01:25when you make that mistake or you mistime it,

01:28the consequences are terrible.

01:30And from the front players, it happens the same.

01:33It's for everybody.

01:35We are in a constant learning process.

01:37And that one, you have to be lucky.

01:39Because to learn when you won, much, much better.

01:43Believe me.

01:45For your confidence and as well for how your team

01:48and your colleagues perceive you.

01:50So he was lucky in that.

01:53You said he spoke today.

01:55Was that just a little one-on-one chat?

01:57No, no. Very good.

01:59One-on-one.

02:01Mike from the Mirror.

02:03Mikel, Arsene Wenger used to say

02:06that the game after his team had scored 4-5-6

02:10is often the most dangerous one

02:12because there's often a natural comedown

02:15from plundering plenty of goals.

02:20Having gone 0-0-7, James Bond style, are you...?

02:25That's a good analogy.

02:27And now, boom!

02:31I hope so, that we can replicate that.

02:34We discuss just understanding why you scored the goals

02:37and can you consistently provide those moments,

02:42those situations as often as possible

02:44to increase the probability of happening again.

02:46That's what we have to do.

02:48But Sunday is going to be a very different game.

02:51We are very clear on that.

02:53We're going to have to learn very different things

02:56as well to help United.

02:58At Old Trafford last season, you won

03:00on the penultimate weekend of the season

03:02to take it to the last day.

03:04Although a little bit further away from the last day,

03:08a win at Old Trafford on Sunday

03:10would keep you in the hunt, wouldn't it?

03:13Whatever Liverpool do, it would keep you in the hunt.

03:15It's certainly going to keep us the momentum going,

03:17but we're going to have to be really good

03:19to earn the right to do that.

03:20We know historically as well how tough it is to win there.

03:23We're going to do our best and earn the right to win it.

03:29As you said, Mikel, it's going to be a different game

03:31on Sunday to the other day.

03:33In the home game against United,

03:35it was two goals from set-pieces which made the difference.

03:40In recent weeks, both in the league and at home,

03:43you haven't scored a goal from a set-piece.

03:46What are the reasons for that?

03:48What are you doing to try and bring back those set-piece goals?

03:53Various reasons.

03:55In some of the games, we generated a lot of situations

03:59and chances.

04:00Scoring a goal was something different.

04:02In others, we haven't been at our level.

04:04Sometimes it's been the delivery, sometimes the timing,

04:07sometimes the execution.

04:09Then it's something that plays a big part,

04:11which is the opposition as well.

04:13They know how to defend.

04:15They are prepared very well for that

04:17because they know it's a big threat of ours.

04:20That's it.

04:21I think we did very well two or three days ago.

04:23We did very well against Forest.

04:25They will come, but we have to insist

04:27and be very persistent on it.

04:29You miss Pika'ai in all sorts of ways,

04:32but Pika'ai's deliveries, particularly the in-swing ones,

04:35is that a big factor?

04:37That's another one, obviously.

04:39When you have it from both sides,

04:41that level of consistency and quality, it helps.

04:44Again, scoring goals and set-pieces

04:46is never a flat line that you're going to maintain.

04:49It's impossible, it's never been done.

04:51It should not generate frustration.

04:54Yes, we'll do it better, because even when we're doing really well,

04:57I used to say we can still do much better

04:59because we are not still consistent

05:01doing almost everything perfectly in the right time.

05:04So now it's exactly the same.

05:06Yes, sir?

05:07Hi, Mika'el.

05:08With the situation Ruben Almero

05:10was obviously in Heritage United,

05:12it's a very sticky one to say the least.

05:14When you took over at Arsenal,

05:16it was a similarly difficult situation too.

05:18Can you see comparisons between the two situations,

05:20and how do you think Ruben's done so far?

05:22No, I think it's very different situations.

05:24I have massive respect for Ruben

05:27and United, what they are trying to do as well.

05:30Every situation is different.

05:32How would you say they're different?

05:34I don't want to talk about that.

05:36I look after my garden, my club,

05:38and what the rest do, they try to do their best thing.

05:42On Chido, obviously I know he's no longer at Arsenal,

05:44but what are the attributes that you saw from him

05:47whenever you saw him around the club?

05:50Massive goal threat, attitude and love

05:53to be living inside the box

05:55and capacity to score in many different ways.

05:58That was him.

05:59And finally to Gary for the times there.

06:01Can I just ask you,

06:02do you think you've done anything more

06:04as a club to persuade Chido to stay?

06:08I don't know.

06:09To persuade a player to stay,

06:11a player has to be willing to be with us

06:14and commit to us.

06:16I don't know specifically.

06:18Both parties probably will feel very different about it.

06:21The reality is that he's decided to move

06:23and we have to move on from that.

06:26Is it now harder to persuade some of the youngsters

06:29to stay when there's money elsewhere

06:33from other clubs who can offer to the young kids?

06:36It depends on what is the reason

06:38why they want to go somewhere else.

06:40That's it.

06:41OK, guys. Thanks very much.

06:42OK. Thank you, guys.

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