Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has said that his players have only themselves to blame after surrendering a two-goal lead to draw 2-2 with rock-bottom Wolves at Molineux. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, all criticism of his side is fair after the unbelievable capitulation, and the players must now bounce back against Tottenham on Sunday.
Arteta added that his team didn’t show the required standard to win the EPL against a relegation-threatened side.
His words, “That’s credit obviously to Wolves, they can’t be underestimated.
It’s very basic things and simple things that today we did really wrong and that’s why we had the feeling without conceding much, when the game is open that kind of thing can happen.
Any question, criticism, opinion, you have to take it on the chin today. That’s it. Any bullet, take it because we didn’t perform at the level required, Anything anybody says can be right because we didn’t do what we had to do.
The way to do it is on the pitch on Sunday in another great opportunity we have.
We have always done it but if you are strong you need to show it next.
Extremely disappointed obviously with the result and with the way the game ended but we have to blame ourselves.
The performance in the second half we didn’t show anything close to the standards required in this league to win. It’s a moment of disappointment, we want to talk a lot about how we’re feeling but it’s not the moment to do that.
When you are at this level and at the top you need to take the hit, today we deserved. On Sunday we have a big game coming up.
It was one moment after another moment after another moment. Even though we scored the second goal we never had dominance of the game that’s the reality.”
WOW.
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