An incredible 4-1 home victory brings Arsenal 2 points from the top of the table
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00:00 How did you feel when you put something right?
00:08 Yes, I think we had a great performance. A big credit to the boys after two days and
00:14 just half a day to prepare a game. The way they executed everything, the intensity, the
00:19 commitment, the determination, the aggression and progression in everything that we were
00:24 doing with the ball. They played with a lot of courage against the team and we got rewarded.
00:28 I think we fully deserve to win the game.
00:31 Is Nikolas on a good bonus?
00:39 That's probably for the owner to respond. The fact that we are scoring goals in various
00:44 ways from various players is really satisfying and we could have scored many more today.
00:50 We have to continue to do that, keep developing all the things that we can still do better,
00:55 which we have. There are still some things that we have to improve obviously and then
01:00 get players back, which is what we are doing right now and it's going to be really important.
01:05 What's the thinking behind bringing in Georginio in these big games?
01:14 That he's a top player. Especially when opponents have certain behaviours, certain set-ups,
01:22 the way I can imagine the game, he was going to have a big impact. But I say you have to
01:27 do it at this level. When he's not playing consistently, I encourage him because he was
01:32 magnificent today.
01:33 Can I have a set-up because he's a world-class player? He seems to have quite a few players
01:37 who have played at a peak of them all.
01:40 He certainly has. But I think individually today we are outstanding. We play and we raise
01:46 the bar again because against Newcastle they are topside, they are really well coached
01:50 and it's very difficult to do what we've done today, to have them in the positions
01:55 and to make them suffer like we've done. So, great to the boys.
01:59 The team have beaten 21 league games after coming back from European games. I was just
02:06 wondering if there's anything specific that goes into that because it felt like the energy
02:10 from the players and also the stadium itself was very good.
02:14 Well, thanks for the start because I didn't know. But it shows how much we want it and
02:19 as well, great to the staff as well for making all the efforts to recover the players. But
02:24 I could sense it from the moment that we were in Porto that we were ready for the game and
02:30 we wanted the game the next day because it was something that we could have done much
02:33 better there. It's great to see that reaction. It's great to see the support that we've
02:37 got in the stadium as a game and we go again.
02:39 You've had some good winning moments since you've been here. You've won your last six
02:46 Premier League games by an aggregate of 25-3. I don't think we've seen anything like that
02:51 in quite a few years. What's to it?
02:53 Well, the team is hitting forward in a good moment and players individually, their performance
03:00 is not any secret. Things are flowing at the moment. As I said before, we are scoring goals
03:05 in various ways and especially we want more. We score one and we want to go for the second
03:10 one, the third and the fourth one and I love that mentality from the team.
03:14 Is that something that's got better in recent weeks, the ability to put teams away, to go
03:18 for those extra goals?
03:20 We have to do that because we won a lot of games, especially last year and this year
03:24 when we deserved more and we generated more. I think today we could have been much more
03:28 as well. But we have to demand ourselves that.
03:33 What's the key to staying on this run? Is it staying in the moment? Is it just trying
03:38 to be free-cycle?
03:40 Maybe we train every day the best possible way, look after yourself and first of all
03:46 believe that you can do it. You can always improve and you can always get better and
03:52 have players back. The more players we have back, the more competition it's going to be
03:55 within the team, more alternatives, more players to impact the game and make sure that especially
04:02 that we believe that we can do it.
04:04 In midweek your team were accused of criticising the ability to manage games towards the end
04:12 but against a really tricky team, what does it say about the maturity of the performance?
04:18 Yeah, but this is normally described like this because of the results. Because if Martinelli
04:27 puts that ball through for Bukayo and Bukayo scores, what happens? And this is football
04:33 and you give it away and then he puts it in one corner and then we have to manage the
04:37 game better. I think he wasn't that good. I think we have a lot of courage to defend
04:41 the way we did because we were incredibly good again against Porto. We didn't have enough
04:44 courage to do what we've done today with the ball and that was the disappointing thing.
04:48 The atmosphere today from the start was really impressive.
04:53 Really impressive and thank you so much for everybody that turned around with that attitude,
04:57 with that energy. Thanks for the club as well because it's pushing that to generate as well
05:02 this atmosphere at home and it makes a huge impact for the team. So thank you.
05:05 Is that something you personally have a role in? Telling the club that we want this atmosphere?
05:09 We want the best club in the world. To be the best club in the world we have to have
05:13 the best stadium, the best atmosphere in the world, that's for sure.
05:18 How proud are you of the reaction from Porto?
05:26 The character, the personality and the fact that the team always wants more. In sport
05:32 things happen for a reason and you have to learn from that. If you feel sorry for yourself
05:35 three days ago then what is it? It's a learning. We do that and we cannot cry because of the
05:41 results. We have to understand why that happened and be better. That was the energy and what
05:47 was in the back of the players and they've done it.
05:50 Thanks a lot.
05:51 Thank you.