Mikel Arteta has urged his Arsenal team to channel the frustration from their defeat to Bournemouth as motivation for their upcoming Champions League clash against Paris Saint-Germain. The Gunners are currently trailing the French side in the semi-final of the competition, having lost the first leg at the Emirates Stadium last week.
Despite their ambitions in Europe, Arsenal have not yet secured a top-two finish in the Premier League, which adds further pressure on the team as the season approaches its climax. Supporters had hoped for a convincing response in the league, particularly during Saturday’s match against Bournemouth, where three points were seen as crucial. Arsenal initially appeared on course to deliver that result, having taken the lead. However, Bournemouth responded with resilience, scoring an equaliser before going on to net the winner in the second half.
The defeat marked a significant setback for Arsenal, both in terms of their domestic campaign and morale ahead of their decisive European fixture in Paris. While it was far from the ideal preparation, Arteta has chosen to focus on turning the negative emotions into fuel for improvement. As quoted by Sky Sports, the Arsenal manager said, “It didn’t create positive momentum but it’s created a lot of anger, frustration, rage, disappointment – let’s use all that for Wednesday.”
Arteta made it clear that the team must deliver a much stronger performance if they are to keep their Champions League hopes alive. He emphasised the importance of raising their level in France while also acknowledging the need to return to winning ways in the Premier League to avoid a disappointing conclusion to their season. The urgency of the situation is evident, and Arteta’s comments underline both the emotional response to the Bournemouth loss and the resolve required to overcome PSG.
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I am a big Arsenal fan and there is nothing team should be angry about. If you have a lead in 10 games in season and didn’t win them, you are not good enough. They must be very arrogant to think that they are better than their results throughout the season. Good teams know how to protect leads and how fight to get a result. Aresenal always response poorly when in the mouth.
Over 5 years and a lot of wasted money, he has been building this team and I can tell you, it needs a lot more than anger. Lets not fool ourselves, we are not winning anything under this set up. This season or next. Another 800 mil, wouldn’t work, playing the football we do. Get real.
I think our Manager is clutching at straws in the knowledge that our second half display yesterday was not acceptable.While the likes of White and Saka are naturally ring rusty after injury, the loss of yet more goals from set pieces suggests we have fundamental problems in defence for which he and his supporting team are responsible.To lose 48% of goals conceded by set pieces is a staggering stat ,yet the Manager continues to play a promising young midfielder as an inverted left back when pace and strength are clearly required at the back, particularly in the absence of the admirable Gabriel.The absence of Tomi and Calafiori has of course made life more difficult in terms of shoring up our defence, but i have to say i very much doubt if anger and frustration can be used to motivate players when the tactics deployed by Arteta are at the root of our problems and our failure to improve on our performance last season
Turning up in France with blood in their eyes, have seen this strategy works in football.
It’s like you have blocked off a wounded animal and it has nowhere to go but back at you.
If I was a betting man, I would bet there will be a reaction in France from Arsenal, it’s perfect football sense if you ask me.
We should be used to collapsing at the end of the season, it’s how we do things.
Play great against Madrid, then outplayed in the next 2 matches.
Should be more conversations and criticism about dropping points from winning positions.
Artetaball with Arteta-bots and checkbook managing got us back to the top 4 but has maxed out.
We need new ideas and tactics as badly as new players.
Arteta talks about anger, well now he knows how some fans have felt in his 5 years and counting at the club.
A bit like how a lot of fans felt for nine years under the previous manager.
Wenger was more successful
Not in those nine years.
The 9 year period he didn’t finish outside the top 4
Unlike Arteta who has 3 times ?
Yet now fans are saying it’s okay just to be top 4 ?
He was the first and only Arsenal manager to not win a trophy in six years and not get the sack.
When he took over he didn’t have to rebuild the squad, unlike Mikel.
He’s also the most successful manager in Arsenal history
The first and only manager to go unbeaten in an entire league campaign
With Real Madrid has a record for consecutive seasons in CL
No manager has won more FA Cups
When he took over did in fact have to rebuild and change a drinking culture , dramatically improving our League positions
Never took us to 8th and outside of Europe
Plus sa change!
Exactly
Dan, I take it you meant in the PL when going unbeaten, as the PNE manager was the first in English football when they won the first ever Double.
If the club had carried on with sacking the manager for going 6 years without winning a trophy, then Wenger would’ve been sacked in 2011 and wouldn’t hold the record of FA Cup wins.
He only had to rebuild the squad once the players he inherited either retired our were sold because they were old.
As for changing the drinking culture, Tony Adams was just as much involved, as he had already given up alcohol before Bruce Rioch was sacked.
Tonight 31 years ago, I was in Copenhagen celebrating winning our second European Trophy, shame I never got to do it again in 2000 and 2006 in Paris.
Disagree
So many players he inherited have credited him for changing the culture at the club
Look at the league positions in George Grahams in last seasons
I always doubted your knowledge but in our double winning season Viera ( Wenger told to buy ) , Petit , Overmars , Anelka were all crucial including the training and dietary requirements Mr Wenger introduced
Only Gooner ( apparently) I have had to explain that too
21 years ago I enjoyed my team lift the Prem
Shame I never got to see that again
I’ve never ever disagreed that he changed the diet and the training methods at the club, all I’ve said is that Tony Adams had a lot to do with doing away with the drinking culture.
You strangely leave out Seaman, Adams, Bould, Dixon, Winterburn, Keown, Parlour, Hughes, Wright and Bergkamp when you mentioned that double season. Hardly surprising really.
I enjoyed the last title win, shame it didn’t happen in 2016, when none of the big clubs, apart from us, were involved in that year.
You never have to doubt my knowledge of The Arsenal, as I’ve probably forgotten more about the club than you’ll ever know 😁
Oh I doubt it
You would know that Seaman, Adams, Bould, Dixon, Winterburn, Keown, Parlour have all said that Wenger came in and changed the diet , the training, the culture
taking a team who has not challenged for the League in years and in first full season into champions
That’s well known outside of our fanbase yet alone from an apparent Gooner
To try and compare that to a manager who in your words rebuilt a squad to win ……a FA Cup
Is insulting
For younger Gooners who believe Mr Wenger doesn’t rebuild when he got there
( And think why this comes up every time Arteta fails in the Prem ) This is what Tony Adams said himself
Biomechanically, physically, he got me into the best shape that I’ve ever been in. “Tony, my advice is use your strengths.”
The catalyst for everything was the finance and the great players who came in. Because we had the finance, we bought the top players. The French market was untapped at that point, and we got all the best players from France.
Arsène went: “No. Go to the south of France. One week of rest, one week of rehab, and one week of training again. If you’re not going to be 100 per cent right, I don’t want you. Go and get right.”
That was revolutionary, because I was thinking: “I’ve got to play. It’s all about me.”
I went there, I got into the best shape of my life, and I came back and exploded. I was invincible.
To actually go on to a football pitch free – mentally and emotionally – and get the physical high of playing football… I just felt so great, so it almost didn’t really matter who I was playing with.
I was also in the best place I’d ever been in mentally and emotionally.
Those last six years of my career, playing free – physically, mentally and emotionally – was the best place to be
Adams has even said that Wenger “saved my life,” emphasizing the impact of his support.
David Seaman
When he came in he changed everything. He revolutionised Arsenal.
He changed the way we played, our diet, the stretching routines we did… he did every single session himself so it was done properly.
“He was brilliant and for me and the back four especially, he added years to our careers.
When we went on England duty, the other players were sneakily looking at what we were eating. They wanted to get on the same diet as us because they knew how good it was for us.
He was a manager who totally changed football and totally changed Arsenal
( now you won’t find many Gooners who claim to not know there was a drinking culture at the club and that Mr Wenger did not fix issues when he walked in )
Keown
So I take everyone out, we go to the local pub and Paul Merson goes into the pub and he does a forward roll in the middle of the pub and he gets an imaginary gun out of a holster and he goes right round the pub and [blows imaginary gun] puts it back in and says ‘right, let’s get the drinks in’.”
It’s fair to say that ended up in a crazy night for the Arsenal players, with Keown looking to round them back up to return as Wenger had asked.
“Then two hours later I said ‘Right lads, drink up, we’re going’ ‘No we’re not going’. I came back to the hotel with two players out of 15 and Wenger is going berserk, so this was a bit of a wake-up call.”
It was something that would later dramatically change at Arsenal, with Wenger implementing a new style to how his players would take care of themselves.
Culturally, it was a drinking profession where you played hard, on and off the pitch. But he changed their attitudes and said, ‘No, your preparation, your training and how you prepare is as important as the games.’
“It’s like anyone in any form of life. If you clean up your day-to-day living, you eat the right foods, you get plenty of sleep and you are not doing the wrong things, you will feel better in yourself.”
It was a change that improved Arsenal and led them to titles, though eventually the rest of English football caught up.
Dan, none of your last three posts are about rebuilding the squad like Mikel had to do in his early years 🙄
Of course it is you inherit a squad not challenging for a title so you rebuild it on bringing in better players and also making the training , culture , diet , tactics better
Go research where Arsenal were in George Graham last couple of seasons in league and what Wenger did ?
Your be shocked
To try and compare it with what Arteta has done ?
Like I said go research
I don’t have to research, as I was there, over land and sea 😁. His second to last season I was in Copenhagen on this very day getting p***ed after winning our second European Trophy, with a goalkeeper that needed pain killing injections before the game and at halftime due to his rib injury. We were also missing players due to injuries and suspension.
Now tell me how many European trophies Wenger won in his 22 years of European football at The Arsenal.
0
Got us to the main European Cup Final which no other Arsenal manager did
Sorry …..are you ( a so called Arsenal fan ) trying to say Mr Wenger was not successful?
Again for any younger Gooners , Mr Wenger is factually the most successful manager in our history
Once in 19 attempts 😂. He certainly wasn’t successful in European football. In his career as a manager, he got to 3 European finals and lost the lot.
1992 CWC, lost to Werder Bremen.
2000 UEFA Cup, lost to Galatasary.
2006 CL, lost to Barcelona.
Maybe he should be known as Napoleon, as he was another Frenchman who failed to conquer Europe.
What other Arsenal .manager got to the European Cup / CL Final ?
You can’t really judge Mr Wenger for not winning the Cup Winners Cup mate as he took us to a higher level completion for the next what 19 years lol and Cup Winners Cup soon stopped after he arrived ( please do some research if your going to try and troll lol)
Even though he in your mind didn’t rebuild anything ( George Graham at this point was not anywhere close to getting Arsenal into the European Cup )
No other Arsenal manager got to the final of the CL, as for the vast majority of them, qualifying in the top 4 of the league didn’t earn you a place in the competition. The furthest we got was the quarter finals against the then mighty Ajax, under Bertie Mee.
If you bothered to read my post properly, you would see I posted the year 1992, which was when he was the manager of Monaco.
Lack of European football, thanks to the Scousers, my well have cost us a great chance in the European Cup in ’92 under George Graham, but we’ll never know. He did learn from it though, as was proved two years later in the CWC.
So you didn’t know there was a drinking culture?
You didn’t know Wenger walked into a mess ?
You didn’t know he rebuilt the club with training and dietary methods
You judge him for him being the only manager to get us to the European Cup Final
Bringing up he didn’t win Cup Winners Cup which ended in …..1999!!; lol
He couldn’t play it in because we were in a higher competition
Of course I knew of the drinking culture at the club, known as the Tuesday club. I also know of the player that got put on his arse by one of our fans for giving it the big one during one of those sessions.
As I posted previously, Wenger didn’t have to rebuild the squad like Mikel had to. We all know about the different methods Wenger brought in for training and the diets.
Like I posted previously, Wenger lost the final of the CWC in ’92 while in charge of Monaco. The brother of a then friend of mine scored one of the Werder Bremen goals 😁
Dan, go and get some shut eye, as you are having problems comprehending the written words.
Dan,
It really amazes me what some fans will do to try and defend Arteta.
I’ve been reading your posts along with Herr Drier.
The difference that Wenger made in so many ways when taking over were at the time ground breaking in certain respects.
With his knowledge of the French players and his knowledge in general he was ahead of the game in so many ways. Although sadly for him and the team, in his later years he would struggle when the other teams and managers caught up with his methods. And sadly he even fell behind them to a large extent.
But that said what he did for our club was second to none. But to my amazement you have some on here who actually try to diminish what he did in the defense of Arteta, who’s record is not even on the same page as Wenger’s.
All the things that Wenger brought seems to have been forgotten by some in their undying love of Arteta.
The standards at this club today, compared to then is night and day.
And apart from 1 FA Cup, one of the things that Arteta has brought us is Win the Dog. That says it all, Win what that’s what I’d like to know. 🙄🤦♂️🤷♂️
Derek, if you are insinuating that I’ve been disminishing what Wenger did when he arrived in ’96, then you are way off. Everyman and his dog knows he turned things around, but the fact of the matter is he didn’t inherit a player that continued to break the rules of the club, or a player that cost PL clubs millions of £s.
Herr Drier,
So Arteta had to deal with a player breaking the rules, or a player that cost the club millions of pounds.
I’m pretty sure had Wenger been around and was in the same position, he would have been able to deal with it.
There’s nothing special about what Arteta did there. And you talk about million pound players, well take a look at the current situation regarding finances. Under Arteta this club paid £65M for Havertz and he’s paid Millions. And they gave Nketiah and Nelson £100,000 a week new contracts and then practically ignore them.
All this with the great Arteta in charge.
Derek, maybe I didn’t make myself clear, but it was one player who continuely broke the club rules (PEA) and another player who not only cost us, but every PL club millions of £s (Ozil).
Would that be the same Wenger that allowed Ozil to keep taking holidays during the season ?
Regarding Nketiah and Nelson, would you have preferred them both leaving on a free ? Don’t forget that we made a profit when we sold Nketiah and will probably do the same with Nelson.
The same Wenger won won trophies with Ozil and were 2nd in the Prem
Ozil not a great example as it’s not one of Artetas high points
Paying your most creative player to sit at home while we finished 8th
Second in the PL to the mighty, massive club, Leicester City, when Man City, Man Utd, Chelsea and Liverpool were nowhere to be seen. Wow.
So why do you think we finished second, after beating Leicester home and away, while all the other big clubs you mention were nowhere to be seen HD?
Were they all rebuilding at the same time perhaps?
I find it interesting that you class them as a “massive club” in a derogatory manner, when they actually achieved more in that one year, than MA has done in five years!!
I would say it was because we fell away after the New Year, as our CF failed to score for 3 months.
All the usual challengers were facing different problems within there clubs.
I was really hoping at the time that this was going to be the year that Wenger brings the CL to the Emirates for the first time. Alas it was not to be.
But it’s okay for Arteta to fall away ?
Surely your captain being an alcoholic is worse then poor time keeping
Yet one manager with that captain won the title
The other finished 8th , 8th and 5th
But where your comparison falls down
Is one made us Champions
The other one didn’t
It’s opinions of course
But you seem to be discrediting our most successful manager
Yet over inflating the achievements of someone with one FA in 5 years
For example you mock Mr Wenger for being the only Arsenal manager to get us to a European Cup / CL Final
Yet if Arteta loses in the Final your say …..that wasn’t too bad
Dan, are you suffering from amnesia ? As I told you last night, Tony Adams had already given up alcohol while Rioch was still the manager.
It wasn’t just poor timekeeping though. Remember when we played at Southampton and he got off the coach before it had even arrived in the city ? Then there was the time he went to France because of his mum. Tell me what he had when he got back that he didn’t have when he left ?
No way have I discreted Wenger for his time at Highbury, but you are comparing one manager who had had 12 years experience as a manager before joining us to someone who had none.
But I notice HD, you make the distinction regarding Arsene and his time at “Highbury”.
Was that intentional, or do you think his time once leaving Highbury was not good?
As for Aubameyang, the only mistake the club made, was letting him go without a replacement, then paying his wages to play for another club… not the best of decisions in my view.
Ozil? Simply the best footballing genius after Bergkamp I’ve ever seen.
The fact that he was too big for the club to handle, so they treated him like s**t, was something I don’t blame Mikel for – rather the owner wanting to get rid of his wages, his politics and his strength to stand up to being told to take a pay cut…. of course, as football has moved on, Mesut’s style of play is now a thing of the past, but what a player he was!!
Aubemeyang would still be worth a punt today, especially as the club still hasn’t replaced him.
Ken, no, I don’t think his time after leaving Highbury was as good. Losing at home to teams who had just been promoted, losing at home to a Wigan team battling against relegation while we were 3rd in the PL. Then you have the embarrassing defeats to lower league teams (Bradford being 3 leagues below us) in the FA and League Cups.
Regarding PEA, tell me which club were willing to buy him ? Obviously none were, as we had to let him go to Barcelona, as they were the only club who were interested in him. Instead of training at the club on transfer deadline day, he flew to Barcelona, even though neither club had agreed on a transfer. I’m glad that he went. Yes his goals were a miss, but his attitude certainly wasn’t.
Ozil was certainly good with the ball, but without out it, terrible. I much preferred Liam Brady as a player, proper team player in my opinion. Yes he did refuse to take a pay cut, but then money has been his thing, as his home club Schalke can testify.
I’m sure the charities he’s put money into will also say money is his thing.
Even in the borough of Islington he was helping the poorer children.
“Only Barcelona” were interested in Aubameyang?
I wanted Aubameyang out for breaking the rules, but to pay for him to go and not have a replacement, was ridiculous… and our club knew he went to Spain for talks.
Addiction doesn’t work like that
At Euro 96 he was drinking heavily
You don’t drink in the summer of 96 and then are fine months later
Battling with sobriety is a daily battle and In his own words Mr Wenger ” saved my life ‘
That’s his own words
I’m not the one making comparisons
That’s the point you can’t
One is the greatest we ever had ,( despite you trying to mock him ) the other if he left tomorrow wouldn’t he considered any where near
I know fully well that giving up something a person is addicted to is a life long battle. The point is Tony gave up alcohol just before he returned to pre-season training after the Euros in ’96 after going on a two week bender. I’m pretty sure whoever the manager was they, and the club, would have stood by him, just like they did with Paul Merson and his sniffing addiction.
Of course you’re making a comparison when comparing what Wenger had in his squad and what Mikel had. Wenger had a team that would fight to the bitter end, Mikel didn’t.
I’m only going by his own words that Mr Wenger ‘ saved me life ‘ that it was the was also in the best place I’d ever been in mentally and emotionally.
Those last six years of my career, playing free – physically, mentally and emotionally – was the best place to be’
Again why would an Arsenal fan want to discredit that ?
Which is fine but you can’t then defend Arteta for doing less then
Show me where I’ve discredited what Wenger did for Tony Adams ? So I take it that you don’t think TA splitting up with his Mrs and the help he got from AA had anything to do with him being mentally and emotionally better ?
Which of our players under the reign of Mikel are/were alcoholics ?
Exactly
Wenger had far more issues to deal with and the point you keep missing is Wenger took what he had and was successful
Arteta took what he had went backwards and now in his a place which once wasn’t good enough
To put our”anger and rage” into good and effective use, we’d have to win the duel battle first, then we hit them with waves and waves of attack as much as possible till they inevitably succumb. I hope they take their women team’s advice to “smash it”. The chances will come, take it!!!!