Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has come out to take full responsibility for the club’s meek FA Cup quarter-final exit at Southampton. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, even though he is very disappointed with how the match panned out, he remains super proud of his players and their resilience.
Arteta added that he is pleased to have footballers who keep putting their bodies through everything to help the club.
His words, “Really disappointed in the manner that we lost the opportunity to get back to Wembley.
I love my players. What they have done for nine months, I’m not going to criticise them because we lost a game here in the manner that they tried and the way they are putting their bodies through everything.
Some of them probably didn’t even have to be here today. I’m not going to do that, so I’m going to defend them more than ever.
Someone has to take responsibility. That’s me and we have the most beautiful period of the season ahead of us.
And now is a moment. In the season, you always have moments, normally two or three. This is the first moment that we have with a certain level of difficulty.
We’re going to say difficulty when we’re going to play the Champions League quarter-finals and the run-up for the league.
If this is a difficult period, I believe there are many other ones that are much more difficult, so let’s stand up, make yourself comfortable and deliver like we’ve been doing all season.”
On Gabriel’s injury, “I don’t know. I think he felt something. I don’t know exactly what it is. We’re going to have to assess him. But obviously when a player asks him to be substituted, it’s not good news.”
WOW.
Arsenal Football Club is an English professional football club based in Holloway, North London. Arsenal compete in the Premier League, the top flight of English football.
The club has won 13 league titles (including one unbeaten title), a record 14 FA Cups, two League Cups, 17 FA Community Shields, the Football League Centenary Trophy, one European Cup Winners’ Cup and one Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. In terms of trophies won, it is the third-most successful club in English football.
After conducting an overhaul in the club’s operating model to coincide with Wenger’s departure, Spaniard Unai Emery was named as the club’s new head coach on 23 May 2018. He became the club’s first ever ‘head coach’ and second manager from outside the United Kingdom.
In Emery’s first season, Arsenal finished fifth in the Premier League and as runner-up in the Europa League. On 29 November 2019, Emery was dismissed as manager and former player and assistant first team coach Freddie Ljungberg was appointed as interim head coach. On 20 December 2019, Arsenal appointed former club captain Mikel Arteta as the new head coach. Arsenal finished the league season in eighth, their lowest finish since 1994–95, but beat Chelsea 2–1 to earn a record-extending 14th FA Cup win. After the season. Arteta’s title was changed from head coach to manager.
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