Mikel Arteta did not want to blame the injuries to the key players after Arsenal’s shock 1-0 defeat to West Ham United at Emirates Stadium.
Jarrod Bowen scored the only goal in the game Just before halftime to bring Arsenal’s undefeated running to 15 games to the end, also chasing the first home to Artet’s side of this season.
Arsenal He only had two shots on the target throughout the game and they were hardly missing creativity. Even Captain Martin Odegaard could have disgusted the resistant defense of West Ham, which looked safe throughout the three three-year-old Ethan Nwneri, improvised by Central Mikel Merino and Leandro Tossard.
Although he was without Bukayo Saka, Kai Havertz and Gabriel Martinelli due to injury, Artete did not want to use it as an excuse and admitted that he was “very angry” about the appearance that played him.
“No, no, and I completely refuse it because I’m talking about the standards of the players and the team we played today, including me,” Arteta said, asked if the factor’s staff had disappeared. “And that is nowhere near the level we have to guess to have the opportunity to win a Premier league.
“Not today, we were very consistent, yes, but football refers to what you do today and today, nowhere close.
“Yes, very disappointed, obviously very angry. I think you have to congratulate West Ham on the victory and the game they played,” he continued. “But also, I think we never got a lot on our part and have not allowed us to get enough momentum, a sufficient sequence of games with positive actions that could bring about threat situations for them.
“And even though the ball we had and 20 shots of that, I never felt we were on the standard and level we needed. First of all to have more threats, and then let us not let them run because we lost and a lot of balls which we allowed West Ham to run in very dangerous positions.
“We have to be [angry at ourselves]I hope we are very much because we have not hit the level today and I am very responsible for it, so I am very, very angry. “
Arsenal remains eight points behind the leader Liverpoolwho slipped into two of their last three trips to the Premier League, and could be traced to 11. The end of the weekend, because the Reds look down by lowering the champion in the reign Manchester City At the Etihad Stadium.
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