Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta requests the Premier League give more time for recovery to help compete in Europe
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00:00 As an experience, it wasn't the best one. Obviously, I defeated in the league, I defeated
00:07 in the Champions League and I'm fully focused on the times that we have ahead of us with
00:12 six games to go. We are again behind City and we're going to give a real go.
00:18 I don't know, obviously when you look at the schedule that Bayern had and we had and the
00:23 amount of games that they played and they rest ten players nine days ago and they rest
00:28 three days before the game another nine players, it is different. But in these leagues they
00:32 do what they do, which is they cancel the games or they bring them forward to have more
00:37 rest for the Champions League. We are not doing that and we're putting even more and
00:41 more pressure on ourselves. But this is what we have, there's no excuse, it's the reality.
00:46 Should the family do that or something similar to what they've done?
00:49 I think if you want to compete in the same condition, I think we should be able to have
00:52 at least the same amount of recovery between games. That's at least something that we can