Mikel Arteta hailed his “phenomenal” Arsenal aspect for exhibiting maturity regardless of their youth in the course of the hard-fought 1-0 victory at Chelsea.
Gabriel scored the winner to return the Gunners to the highest of the Premier League and preserve Arteta’s unbeaten report at Stamford Bridge, with the Spaniard but to be crushed at Chelsea since he took the reins in December 2019.
The central defender poked a probing goalbound effort from Bukayo Saka over the road for the one aim of the sport within the 63rd minute at Stamford Bridge.
Arsenal have the youngest squad within the league, with a median squad age of 24.7 years (of the gamers who’ve performed within the prime flight this season) in comparison with the Blues’ 27.7.
And the Spanish supervisor was happy with the composure and maturity of his youthful squad.
“I was really impressed,” Arteta stated. “We are a young team, but we showed a lot of maturity today, a lot of composure, a lot courage to play on this stage the way we have played.
“That’s easy to say but actually very difficult to do. I think the boys were absolutely phenomenal today.”
Arsenal efficiently contained the risk provided by the house aspect, who lacked cohesion going ahead and completed the 90 minutes with a meagre two pictures on course.
Despite Arsenal’s victory in west London in opposition to a Chelsea aspect who had beforehand solely misplaced one sport beneath supervisor Graham Potter, Arteta was unwilling to insist his aspect have change into title contenders.
“We are today. But in football, today and tomorrow is very different. So let’s enjoy (this) time,” he stated.
Arteta added: “Just look at the last six years, what Manchester City have done. With the best manager in the world, the best team in the world.
“They have shown it consistently in every single competition. We have to be very, very respectful of that.
“We are getting much better as a team and competing much better. We are getting really good results right now, but this is long, long.”
Potter needs his Chelsea aspect to make use of the defeat as motivation going ahead, with simply two matches remaining earlier than the winter break for the World Cup, and admits he was left pissed off with the outcome and efficiency.
He stated: “(It) always is (disappointing and frustrating) to lose a game like we did.
“We huffed and puffed, I think, but you could see the difference in the two teams in terms of confidence, in terms of points they’ve got, in terms of structure and working together.
“We are not in a fantastic moment as we speak. As much as it is not nice to say, Arsenal deserved to win the game and were the better team overall, so we have to take that and use it as motivation to improve.”
Source: www.impartial.co.uk