Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has highlighted a major problem with his side after their collapse against West Ham. The Gunners were leading 2-0, and eventually ended up drawing 2-2.
Arteta’s side were cruising in the first 10 minutes at the London Stadium, with Gabriel Jesus and Martin Odegaard both scoring in early on, as the Gunners stormed to a 2-0 lead.
Arsenal could have made it 3-1 in the first seven minutes of the second-half, but Bukayo Saka’s penalty miss didn’t allow for that to happen. Jarrod Bowen then terrifically equalised just minutes after Saka’s miss.
A HUGE TURNAROUND! West Ham complete the comeback from 2-0 down to 2-2 🤯 pic.twitter.com/vHfeiD5HY5
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After the game, Arteta was speaking to the media.
Mikel Arteta Shares Thoughts After Game
“There was another moment, where you can go 3-1 up after 50 minutes, and the game is probably over… then two minutes later, you concede a goal.
“But this is part of football. My worry is after 2-0, we made that huge mistake and didn’t understand what the game required in the moment.
“We needed that ruthless mindset in that moment to go and kill the team. When a team is there for the killing, you have to kill it. Today we haven’t done it. When you don’t do that in the Premier League, at some stage they’re going to turn around and have some momentum.”
He was then asked how the game played out similarly to the one at Anfield.
“In terms of what’s happened, it was very different,
“But you have to accept that. That’s the last thing we want in our brains – to not have confidence after the possibility to kill the game and not doing it.
“That’s the next stage. When you are there, you have to do it. You have to play with the same purpose or more and not give them anything.”
Arsenal host Southampton in their next outing on Friday.
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