Aston Villa 2-4 Arsenal

 There were plenty of talking points when Mikel Arteta met the media after our thrilling Premier League win at Villa Park on Saturday.




Our manager was asked about topics including Jorginho’s performance, Gabriel Martinelli’s impact and the character the team showed - read on for a transcript of what Mikel had to say.

On his emotions after the match:

Now, it’s difficult because it’s been a rollercoaster and very emotional at the end. I think we showed a lot of resilience, character and quality. The context of the game was difficult, with the performance that we had against City and getting nothing out of it. Then having to come here less than 72 hours later and finding ourselves 1-0 down after five minutes. We had to play the next 90 minutes and we had some difficulties in certain periods during the first half. Individually we brought the level right down and stopped doing the simple things right. At half-time we said we had to raise the individual level, we had to look each other in the face and we had to do much more if we wanted to come out and win this game.


We altered one or two things and then we produced a very strong performance and probably should have won it earlier than we did.

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