\n Read more<\/span> <\/p>\n on whether he was surprised about the performance:<\/strong> on if the momentum is shifting:<\/strong> on the areas we needed to improve: <\/strong> on updates on Calafiori, Odegaard and Saka:<\/strong> on whether there is tiredness in the team:<\/strong> \n Read more<\/span> <\/p>\n on the emotions in the stadium:<\/strong> on the challenge of turning around the momentum:<\/strong> on if nerves and tension are affecting the performances:<\/strong> \n Read more<\/span> <\/p>\n Copyright 2026 The Arsenal Football Club Limited. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mikel Arteta addressed the media on Saturday afternoon following our<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} Every word from Arteta’s post-Bournemouth presser <\/span>
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We were very far from the level that we were shown. That’s for certain, especially in certain areas that are critical when you play against a team like Bournemouth. They were very clear. But, again, I don’t want to criticise any player, especially here, publicly.<\/p>\n
We cannot control that. I think what we can control is our performances, like we’ve done over the last nine months, and that’s the only thing. So, anything that is said when you have a defeat at home, you have to accept it. That’s it. There are no excuses, there is no this or that. All the things that I hear are about how we’re going to stand up, first of all, individually, and then as a team, to change that immediately on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
There were a lot of situations, I don’t want to go into that detail. They were quite obvious and we need to do that much better in order to have certain control and dominance in the game, otherwise it’s difficult.<\/p>\n
No, and on Martin (Odegaard) as well, no. Bukayo Saka, too. We don’t have an update yet.<\/p>\n
I don’t want to pull those excuses because we’ve been playing so many games every three days, we’re going to have to continue to do that, so that’s the context, that’s the scenario. We have to embrace it and especially enjoy the opportunity. That’s one of the things that I haven’t seen from the team today, that level of enjoyment in certain moments and the fight that we have to have to really change the course of the game when it gets difficult. We’re going to have different contexts from here to June, and we need to be able to adapt and resolve all of them, if we want to achieve what we want to achieve, that’s clear.<\/p>\n Gyokeres assesses Bournemouth defeat <\/span>
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That’s clear, that’s emotion, it comes from the right place and it’s not a day for sure to demand anything, that’s what the fans have done today.<\/p>\n
We know what is at stake, and the fact that as a club we haven’t done it for so long is a reason for that, it talks about the difficulty. But I just want to focus on the things that we can control, dominate and we have done. It’s not like we have to do a lot of new things that we haven’t done, no, let’s keep doing a lot of it. Or almost all the things that we’ve done for nine months, because that’s what has taken us all the way there, and on Wednesday, I saw a lot of them, and today, we’ve gone back, so we need to learn, we need to be very critical to ourselves, and then pick ourselves up, because on Wednesday we have a big one coming up. <\/strong><\/p>\n
We need everything. First of all, we need everybody, fit and available. So the ones that are not involved, the ones that are not with us, that are really big, important players, we need them immediately with us, because then we’re going to be much stronger, and then the other ones, we need to stand up. Me, the first one, and embrace this challenge and go for it. So today we have to suffer, it’s painful, it’s a terrible feeling, but tomorrow is a different day, and if somebody had said to me in August, we are in this position right now in April, I’m sure we would all take it.<\/p>\n Report: Arsenal 1-2 Bournemouth <\/span>
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