Mikel Arteta speaks about Arsenal’s future

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Coach Mikel Arteta got interviewed following his club’s surprising loss to West Ham. Among the things he spoke about was the future of the club.

Speaking to The Gunners’ press, the tactician said the following concerning his club’s inability to score despite touching the ball 77 times in the box:

‘They were great, we have to put the ball in the net and win it, and as well because the two situations in the box we have to defend in the box, we didn’t defend it well enough.

‘It’s a team that are really good in the box, with the timing, the quality they have with the front players arriving and that’s what made the difference today unfortunately and it is a very disappointing night for us because I think we should have got much more from the game.’

One of the topics Arteta spoke on that concerned the team’s future was that of new signings during the January transfer window.

Arteta said, ‘What we have is the players that we have, it’s the players that I love the most.

‘What we have to do is try to get better situations, and more training, put them there and raise their confidence and that’s it because they have done it.’

His boys sent 30 shots towards West Ham’s post but we’re unable to score. During the interview, the tactician said that his team were not weakened by tension when they got to West Ham’s goal post as many thought.

Arteta said what the team should to to get better results in the future.

‘It’s what it is, we have to try to generate,’ he said. ‘If we don’t score goals in thirty shots, we have to do fifty or sixty to try to score ,it’s the only thing.

‘I cannot imagine a game that you have more dominance, more touches in the box, less situations of the opponents against a really good West Ham side, but today wasn’t enough to win the game.’

Arsenal and Aston Villa, two clubs maintaining a good record, were beaten during the Christmas season for the first time in a good while.

Some might say the defeats were Christmas gifts.