It's first against third in the Premier League as Arsenal welcome league leaders Liverpool to the Emirates
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00:00It's a team that for nine years consistently has been there.
00:02That means that they are really good at everything that they do.
00:05You would assume that playing Arsenal will even be more difficult.
00:16After the defeat with 10 men at Bournemouth we have to pick ourselves up.
00:20I think we started the game so well.
00:21The first half was really good.
00:23It should have been very different with the scoreline.
00:25It didn't and at the end it left you this feeling that it should have been more.
00:30They had a day off, two days to prepare the game like we always do.
00:33And it's a big match.
00:34We are excited about it.
00:35It's a big opportunity.
00:36We love these kind of matches at the Emirates.
00:39We all know that taking points from your competitor and nobody knows in this early stage
00:46who is going to be your competitor or your biggest competitor.
00:49But I think we all know that Arsenal will be one of them.
00:54And then dropping points against them or winning points against them.
00:59That is always important.
01:02It's a team that for nine years has been competing at the highest level in every competition.
01:06So they know how to compete.
01:07They know how to threat you when the ball is really far.
01:11When the ball is in the outside units especially.
01:15They have the individual quality to damage you.
01:17They are good on set pieces.
01:18It's a team that for nine years consistently has been there.
01:20That means that they are really good at everything that they do.
01:24In the life of a manager and I'm talking about a manager.
01:27I don't know how it is for the players.
01:29The excitement for a manager is maybe 10 to 15 minutes after good results.
01:32But it's a very nice fixture to be in.
01:36That's clear.
01:37But there are many, many nice fixtures to be in.
01:42And Arsenal away is one of them.
01:45We have different options.
01:46Players that have already played before.
01:49It's true that our partnership has been very stable.
01:51As you said, he's played every single moment.
01:53He's not available.
01:55We have to find a different solution which is something that as a team
01:58we need to do good at as well.
02:01There are two reasons why we don't concede a lot.
02:04One of them is that most games, almost all of them maybe except for one,
02:09we dominated and controlled that for large parts of the game.
02:12If you combine that with having the likes of Virgil and Ibou
02:17and the two goalkeepers we've used till now,
02:19that is why we haven't conceded that much.