{"id":516927,"date":"2026-03-03T23:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T23:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/516927\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T23:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T23:22:07","slug":"mikel-arteta-upset-arsenal-dont-score-more-corners-amid-set-piece-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/516927\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikel Arteta ‘upset’ Arsenal ‘don’t score more’ corners amid set-piece debate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mikel Arteta says he is upset that Arsenal<\/a> do not score more goals from corners.<\/p>\n

The debate on whether set-pieces are ruining modern football has been raging this week, with Liverpool<\/a> boss Arne Slot revealing on Monday that he no longer enjoys watching some Premier League<\/a> matches.<\/p>\n

Arsenal are the corner kings this season with 16 goals coming from them, including both in Sunday’s win over Chelsea<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But despite criticism about Arsenal’s tactics from some quarters — pundit Chris Sutton claimed Arsenal will be the “ugliest” Premier League title winners should they go on to clinch it — Arteta was unapologetic.<\/p>\n

“I’m upset that we don’t score more, and that we concede as well,” he said.<\/p>\n

Mikel Arteta has said he is ‘upset’ that his side don’t score more corners.\u00a0Photo by Catherine Ivill – AMA\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

“We want to be the best and the most dominant team in every aspect of the game, and that’s the trajectory and the aim of this team, and as a club, we want to be the same. So we try to do that.”<\/p>\n

Asked if he was surprised at the criticism aimed at his side, he said: “Part of the job.”<\/p>\n

The Spaniard admits football has evolved over the last few years and that teams have had to adapt.<\/p>\n

“You, as an opponent or whatever, you get upset when you concede a goal,” he said. “I was really upset the way we conceded a goal against Chelsea.<\/p>\n

“Chelsea, look at the quality that they have, the amount of set-pieces they score. Manchester United<\/a> as well. I was at Man City, I used to work a lot on them.<\/p>\n

“There are phases and there are moments when a team has an opportunity to do certain things. The game is evolving and the game is becoming more and more difficult.<\/p>\n

“Before, when you used to do a game plan you’d just invert a full-back and bring an extra player in midfield.<\/p>\n

– Olley, Ogden: Arsenal ride corners closer to Premier League title, Chelsea red cards continue
–<\/a> Patrick Vieira ‘expects more’ from Arsenal after corner record tied
–<\/a> FIFA not planning on changing corner-kick laws; IFAB says player conduct ‘not getting worse’<\/a><\/p>\n

“Now, teams are adapting. Teams know after every sequence of play, whether it’s a throw-in, a restart of play, an open-play situation, after direct play, exactly what they have to do.<\/p>\n

“And everything is almost man-to-man. So it’s going to be a different game unless we change the rules because the evolution of the game is that.”<\/p>\n

Arteta believes that if people want to watch “beautiful football” they will have to look elsewhere.<\/p>\n

“I don’t know how you celebrate one goal different to another one,” he said. “Maybe for YouTube it’s nicer one or another. I don’t know.<\/p>\n

“I would like to play with three players extra in my own half to get some beautiful football and play always against a free man. This is not the reality of football.<\/p>\n

“If you want to watch that football, you have to go to a different country because in the Premier League, for the last two seasons or three seasons, this is not the case.”<\/p>\n

Midfielder Declan Rice<\/a> is expected to be fit for the trip to Brighton on Wednesday despite limping off against Chelsea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mikel Arteta says he is upset that Arsenal do not score more goals from corners. The debate on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-516927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}