Arsenal manager, Mikel Arteta has come out to say that pure force of will saw Gabriel Martinelli return from injury in time to net the winning goal against Manchester City. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, Martinelli kept telling him he was going to play against MCFC at any cost, and even while it seemed too early for him to return from injury, he ended up featuring.
Arteta added that the Brazilian immediately said he was ready to play his part when Trossard got injured.
His words, “He’s been saying for a few weeks ‘I’m going to be there against City’, and everyone was saying ‘Gabby, it will be too early for you’. Yesterday he said ‘boss, I told you I was going to be ready for this.’
“Leo [Trossard] felt something in his hamstring, [and] when I turned around he was already ready to go, with his kit, ‘boss, I’m ready to go!'”
“He made a huge effort to be in this game. No one believed that he was going to be available. All the medical staff were trembling.”
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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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