Arsenal v Man City: Mikel Arteta pre-match press conference - part two

Still, going into this game is Man City and when we’re going to kick into gear in the last 10 games and it’s almost inevitable. But Arsenal right now, top of the league, you’ve got the best defence, you’ve got the best scoring record, Does it frustrate you a little bit? But no one’s talking about Arsenal as if they are the favourites because right now you’re Tottenham. City are chasing you, right? No, they have been the right for seven or eight years with what they’ve done to everybody believe that they’re going to do it again. They haven’t given no reason to anybody else to think that they cannot do it. So we have to give them those reasons. Yeah, as I say, it’s a chance to change that narrative, isn’t it? I mean, you want to be spoken about like City are right now. Yeah, but we haven’t done it, so we cannot expect to be talk like City or Liverpool at the moment because we haven’t done it. And the four big games in the past, when you were when you first came in, you tried different things. When you went to Anfield, you tried to play. You never walk alone to try and change my mindset. Right now with the squadron, it seems like that you don’t need to do that. You don’t need to try and try some things. Is that just testament to what how this, how good this squad is right now and they don’t need to adapt and try to and they just go and play how they play. And if I tell you that I did something when we’d be in Man City at home, I made it. What did you do? And maybe it was needed because we won’t. It doesn’t work like that. We have to do what we feel and what the team needs and try to shape that up. So they are in the best possible mindset and they are convinced and and they have the feeling that they’re going to beat any opponent and we can use different tools to that. And just finally at the Emirates you were very physical with earning Harland and Williams leave, especially with right on top of him. Is that, is that the way that you stop and that’s how you’ve got to be. Again, you can’t sit back at the FTF. You have to be as aggressive and as physical with them. There are moments that you can be aggressive. There are moments that they have the ability to to get in in other zones of the pitch and and you have to adapt to that. We have the same qualities to do that. So at the end you have to defend certain spaces in the way that you have to in relation to what they are doing and you cannot behave the same way in in every zone of the pitch. Hi, just a follow up brief on Jordan’s question. What do you feel Arsenal need to achieve to be recognised, to be on the same level as City, win four or five Premier Leagues, win Champions League and and be there consistently like they have done just under the games like this this stage of the season? How much are they? A test of nerve as as anything. Yeah, you cannot play the occasion. I think you have to play the game. Still so many games to go and and we are learning that we are playing some big games. We play some big games in in Champions League for the first time for the majority of this group and those experiences are necessary and and try to learn quickly. That’s what we have to do. So you think you’ve learnt from the experience of last year going to this run in this this time for sure and in the Premier League for sure. We and hopefully we are constantly learning that we learn something from the game we play against Bromford and Porto and that’s going to help us for the next one against Bayern Munich and and try to be better every day. Thank you Gary. When you when you beat Liverpool to start last season at home and that’s the first sort of big scalp. Did that then have a bearing on when you play Liverpool this season And if that’s the case do you think that the City game beating in October hasn’t fare him on Sunday mentally I think psychologically is it’s important and and it gives you confidence and and and I think it sets you know a different kind of belief within the team that you can play those those games and and you can actually beat them and I’m aware our best we have the capacity to do that Can you can you remember what it was like last year looking away your feelings. Oh nice. I guarantee you I don’t want to go through that again because we knew that after that it was going to be very difficult something that we fight for for that many months and is a different timing as well from that timing and what’s going to be key on Sunday. I mean everyone picks up different battles but Kaio against that OK there’ll be everyone or maybe Saliva against Harlan. What what would you say is going to be the kind of key Hopefully I could tell you this and this, but it’s not it’s it’s a lot of things and it’s a lot of detail. It’s a lot of individual performance. You have to be at your best individually on those matches to give yourself the chance to to win it And and as a team the same and we will prepare you to to try to exploit the weaknesses that’s for sure. Thank you, Gary very want the last one at the back. Hi, Michael. Hi. You mentioned you need to reach the level of Manchester City, you need to beat them. How much do you think it’s a matter of talent versus mental for you guys to make this final set? Well, it’s it’s a bit of both. His his experiences is, is the individual quality that they have, the collective quality that they have, the experiences and what they’ve been through as a club as well, the resources that they had, the hard work that they put in because mentally to win once or twice is OK but consistently that’s that’s something else to do it repeatedly and and that’s what we have to do. Thank you very.