Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta on the challenge of facing Manchester United and Myles Lewis Skelly learning lesson
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00:00I just wanted to ask you a little bit more about Myles, if that's okay.
00:05I thought you were going to ask more about my wife!
00:07LAUGHTER
00:13So what did you say to Myles after...
00:16Clearly nobody likes being substituted, especially not in the first half.
00:19How did you sort of sell it to him afterwards?
00:22Today. Today I did.
00:24When the dust settled.
00:26That's what you say in English, yeah?
00:28And talk openly, you know?
00:30What can we learn from that situation?
00:32How can we expose the team?
00:34What are the things that we have to try to avoid
00:37without losing his essence
00:39that your colleague was talking to a little bit before.
00:42And that's what we have to do.
00:44Draw, understand where that line is.
00:46Because he's a superb player, he has attitude, he has courage.
00:49What he transmits, certainly we have to maintain that.
00:53And just understanding there is reward.
00:55What part of the pitch you are in
00:57when you have to bet certain things
01:01that can give you a big reward.
01:03And sometimes, guys, stay away from that bet
01:05because it's not good for us.
01:07He's obviously a young kid.
01:09Is that going to happen?
01:11These kind of instinctive moments
01:13where he doesn't have the experience maybe to hold back.
01:16Is that what you're trying to fight?
01:18But it happens with the senior ones as well.
01:20A lot.
01:22And depending on the part of the pitch that you play,
01:25when you make that mistake or you mistime it,
01:28the consequences are terrible.
01:30And from the front players, it happens the same.
01:33It's for everybody.
01:35We are in a constant learning process.
01:37And that one, you have to be lucky.
01:39Because to learn when you won, much, much better.
01:43Believe me.
01:45For your confidence and as well for how your team
01:48and your colleagues perceive you.
01:50So he was lucky in that.
01:53You said he spoke today.
01:55Was that just a little one-on-one chat?
01:57No, no. Very good.
01:59One-on-one.
02:01Mike from the Mirror.
02:03Mikel, Arsene Wenger used to say
02:06that the game after his team had scored 4-5-6
02:10is often the most dangerous one
02:12because there's often a natural comedown
02:15from plundering plenty of goals.
02:20Having gone 0-0-7, James Bond style, are you...?
02:25That's a good analogy.
02:27And now, boom!
02:31I hope so, that we can replicate that.
02:34We discuss just understanding why you scored the goals
02:37and can you consistently provide those moments,
02:42those situations as often as possible
02:44to increase the probability of happening again.
02:46That's what we have to do.
02:48But Sunday is going to be a very different game.
02:51We are very clear on that.
02:53We're going to have to learn very different things
02:56as well to help United.
02:58At Old Trafford last season, you won
03:00on the penultimate weekend of the season
03:02to take it to the last day.
03:04Although a little bit further away from the last day,
03:08a win at Old Trafford on Sunday
03:10would keep you in the hunt, wouldn't it?
03:13Whatever Liverpool do, it would keep you in the hunt.
03:15It's certainly going to keep us the momentum going,
03:17but we're going to have to be really good
03:19to earn the right to do that.
03:20We know historically as well how tough it is to win there.
03:23We're going to do our best and earn the right to win it.
03:29As you said, Mikel, it's going to be a different game
03:31on Sunday to the other day.
03:33In the home game against United,
03:35it was two goals from set-pieces which made the difference.
03:40In recent weeks, both in the league and at home,
03:43you haven't scored a goal from a set-piece.
03:46What are the reasons for that?
03:48What are you doing to try and bring back those set-piece goals?
03:53Various reasons.
03:55In some of the games, we generated a lot of situations
03:59and chances.
04:00Scoring a goal was something different.
04:02In others, we haven't been at our level.
04:04Sometimes it's been the delivery, sometimes the timing,
04:07sometimes the execution.
04:09Then it's something that plays a big part,
04:11which is the opposition as well.
04:13They know how to defend.
04:15They are prepared very well for that
04:17because they know it's a big threat of ours.
04:20That's it.
04:21I think we did very well two or three days ago.
04:23We did very well against Forest.
04:25They will come, but we have to insist
04:27and be very persistent on it.
04:29You miss Pika'ai in all sorts of ways,
04:32but Pika'ai's deliveries, particularly the in-swing ones,
04:35is that a big factor?
04:37That's another one, obviously.
04:39When you have it from both sides,
04:41that level of consistency and quality, it helps.
04:44Again, scoring goals and set-pieces
04:46is never a flat line that you're going to maintain.
04:49It's impossible, it's never been done.
04:51It should not generate frustration.
04:54Yes, we'll do it better, because even when we're doing really well,
04:57I used to say we can still do much better
04:59because we are not still consistent
05:01doing almost everything perfectly in the right time.
05:04So now it's exactly the same.
05:06Yes, sir?
05:07Hi, Mika'el.
05:08With the situation Ruben Almero
05:10was obviously in Heritage United,
05:12it's a very sticky one to say the least.
05:14When you took over at Arsenal,
05:16it was a similarly difficult situation too.
05:18Can you see comparisons between the two situations,
05:20and how do you think Ruben's done so far?
05:22No, I think it's very different situations.
05:24I have massive respect for Ruben
05:27and United, what they are trying to do as well.
05:30Every situation is different.
05:32How would you say they're different?
05:34I don't want to talk about that.
05:36I look after my garden, my club,
05:38and what the rest do, they try to do their best thing.
05:42On Chido, obviously I know he's no longer at Arsenal,
05:44but what are the attributes that you saw from him
05:47whenever you saw him around the club?
05:50Massive goal threat, attitude and love
05:53to be living inside the box
05:55and capacity to score in many different ways.
05:58That was him.
05:59And finally to Gary for the times there.
06:01Can I just ask you,
06:02do you think you've done anything more
06:04as a club to persuade Chido to stay?
06:08I don't know.
06:09To persuade a player to stay,
06:11a player has to be willing to be with us
06:14and commit to us.
06:16I don't know specifically.
06:18Both parties probably will feel very different about it.
06:21The reality is that he's decided to move
06:23and we have to move on from that.
06:26Is it now harder to persuade some of the youngsters
06:29to stay when there's money elsewhere
06:33from other clubs who can offer to the young kids?
06:36It depends on what is the reason
06:38why they want to go somewhere else.
06:40That's it.
06:41OK, guys. Thanks very much.
06:42OK. Thank you, guys.