Arteta on Arsenal's 2-1 last gasp defeat at Villa

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Arteta on Arsenal's 2-1 last gasp defeat at Villa  06/12/2025  Villa Park, Birmingham, UK

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00:00Hi guys, raise your hands and we'll come to you.

00:13Go to kick off. Go Martin from the Sun.

00:15Yeah, Nicole, I guess you must have been quite frustrated having worked so hard to get back in the game to lose it with the very last bit.

00:24But you seem to make a bit of a change as well with taking Frost.

00:27Was that tactical as well or more about his finish?

00:31Yeah, obviously we are extremely disappointed in the way we lost the game.

00:36But first of all, congratulate Villa because they are a really good side and they are really good at what they do.

00:41We had some difficulties in the first half, especially with very unusual giveaways that we have given after regaining the ball,

00:48which is a really dangerous moment against them.

00:50But apart from the Watkins situation, which is a foul, I don't recall anything apart from the goal.

00:57And in the second half we started really well, much more positive.

01:01We generated chances, scored the goal.

01:03And my feeling was that we were going to go and win the game.

01:06And we could have lost it before, again with two very dangerous individual giveaways.

01:11And we didn't. We had two chances to score.

01:15The last one went across Declan and we didn't capitalise on that.

01:18The goal kicked long, the second ball we put away for a throw-in.

01:21They played fast.

01:22A lot of chaos in the box and they managed to put the ball in the top corner.

01:26Which is the quality of this league.

01:28So that's the summary.

01:30How much of a blow is that for you?

01:33You've got now seven points in five games, despite playing pretty well in a lot of those.

01:39You could have been well cleared and it's a much tighter base.

01:43But that's the league.

01:44I mean, you go to Old Trafford, you go to St James's Park, you go to Chelsea, you come here.

01:51We've been in a lot of difficult grounds and today the result could have been different.

01:55The reality is not.

01:56And that's the step that we have to make.

01:59I mean, we've been 18 games unbeaten and still we are there, very close to each other.

02:04And that's the level of the league.

02:05And we know that.

02:06That's the opportunity that we had ahead of us.

02:09And that's it.

02:10Now it's time to bounce back.

02:11They have given me all the right reasons to think that we're going to continue to perform at the same level.

02:16Because what the boys tried to do today again with the schedule that we had.

02:20It was amazing.

02:21So, move on.

02:22James, CBS.

02:23You mentioned the schedule there.

02:25Do you think it became a bit too draining for you guys in the last ten minutes?

02:32It was all just too much of a relationship?

02:35I don't know.

02:36At some point I thought we were going to win it and there were moments that we gave very strange giveaways

02:41that had nothing to do with us.

02:43But it's football as well.

02:45But the boys are willing to put absolutely everything.

02:48They tried.

02:49The situation with Leo is the same.

02:51He could only play a certain amount of minutes.

02:53We made the decision to do it early and we had to do it after.

02:56That was the reason why we had to change him and learn from it and go again.

03:01Tom, Football London here.

03:02How do you see a different back four of the season?

03:05Obviously, Chelsea are the two really difficult way games.

03:07You've not had Saliba or Gabriel through them.

03:09How big of an impact does that have on the expectations of the game?

03:12It's what it is.

03:13I think we have to cope with that.

03:15We're going to have to cope with that for a period of time as well.

03:18We know that.

03:19And the team has to adapt that and look for excuses.

03:23Obviously, we know what those two bring, especially in games like this.

03:28But the other two, I think they were exceptional as well today.

03:31So that's it.

03:32Is there a case here of when you go behind in a game, trying to get a little party against

03:39Chelsea, City, where you've gone behind?

03:44Is there a need to try and make the most out of games when you go behind?

03:50Sorry, sorry.

03:51Is there a need to make the most out of games when you go behind in a game?

03:55Well, we've done it on many occasions and today I certainly had the feeling that we could

04:00do it but the game was constantly at the edge because we gave two balls away as well,

04:04very dangerous and in those open situations against man-to-man in the last line,

04:08they are really good at attacking those channels.

04:10But yeah, we have to learn from it the way we concede the first goal as well,

04:15very far from our standards.

04:17So that's learning that we can take from ourselves and then give credit to the opponent as well

04:22because I think they are a really good side.

04:25Go ahead.

04:26Yeah, when you look at where they are, the way they play, they have beaten some big teams,

04:35especially at home.

04:36So yeah, everybody is going to have to play everybody.

04:39So at the moment they are where they are and we are there as well.

04:43He is going to be out for weeks, unfortunately it is much more than what we expected,

04:56what the player was feeling, so he is going to be out for weeks.

04:59Yeah, well I mean everything that they have put in the last two weeks and the results that we got,

05:17the performances and to lose it that went emotionally, it is very touching.

05:22You just feel that everything that you put hasn't been worth it.

05:27But it is worth it because we will learn again from today and it will make us a better team again.

05:33And finally James ESPN.

05:34Well, it has been five months in the competition and so far we have coped.

05:48We are going to have to prove that we can cope again and again for another six months.

05:53That is the level.

05:54If you think you are going to be in this moment with ten points clear,

05:57I think we live in a different world.

05:59Okay guys, thanks very much.

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