We DONT have a 30/40 goalscorer we have to SHARE them / Mikel Arteta / Arsenal 5 - 0 Palace

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When a team is struggling to come to a proper goal, how important is it to work on set-pieces?
It's very important. The reality is that we train set-pieces less in the last week than
other aspects of the game. This is the beauty of it. We work a lot on things that
actually happen and we train them a lot. I'm really pleased with the clean sheet first,
which is something that we've been missing as well to win more games, with the amount of goals
scored and sharing those goals as well, which I think is going to make a really good impact on the team.
He was feeling some tightness. I don't know exactly what muscle it was, but
when he says that at 3-0, obviously we don't want to take any risk.
And the same with Big Gabi as well. He had some discomfort. I think he had a tackle
in the first half and he was a bit struggling, so it was the right moment to take him off the field.
Absolutely. And as well having the ability to score from many different ways,
especially when you're attacking low-blocks teams like this, to score in a certain way,
it has to be everything, it has to be nailed absolutely perfectly. When you generate things
that are a bit more chaotic, sometimes it opens teams up and it's more difficult to do that,
and today I think we exploited that really good because Palace had to change their behaviour
and that allowed us spaces for us to exploit.
I think that's only his second goal this season. Would you like the central defenders to get a
few more? I mean, it helps, doesn't it, going to see him struggling?
Absolutely. And he's got this ability and the timing, the deliveries, they've been really
consistent and good as well. And there are others, like Willy as well, that he has this
capacity to score more goals. We don't have 30-40 goals on someone, we have to share them
and this is a good quality of the team.
Yes, the whole action, reading the space, the behaviour of the front players to open up the
and then the individual action of Gabi as well, to play the ball in the right time,
in the right pace in front of the defender. And then Leo, it's what Leo does. He's so composed
in the box, I think the closer he gets to the goal, the calmer he is. And I think the decision
making and execution, it was top.
I think that's going to make him very good. And sometimes when you're in that period as well,
he had a little issue in the last two days in training and he wasn't fully, fully fit.
That changes momentum and it changes perception, it re-energises you and I think it's a good thing.
No, I haven't had the chance to do that, no.
Well, resting and looking after some players, at the moment we are really short in numbers,
so we really have to manage a few players, especially as I play so much football.
And then we have good training blocks, one to train really hard and the other ones to use
the most for game preparation, so we're going to have to try to maximise that space.
Thank you.
