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Arsenal<\/a><\/p>\nArsenal manager Mikel Arteta, speaking to Sky Sports, on fine margins making the difference: “That’s exactly that and when you don’t do it and they have individual quality to deliver in those moments, you risk losing the game because I don’t think there was any difference between the teams.”<\/p>\n
On if loss came down to bad luck: “There are a few elements. There is an element of luck with whether the ball goes in or not. The second one the ball deflects, it goes to Haaland.<\/p>\n
“There is individual quality as well and there is, in that moment, to be so cool, precise and ruthless. You have to be that.”<\/p>\n
On quality of the match: “Yes, there was moments but it was a battle as well, and intensity, because you expect that.<\/p>\n
“There were big parts of the game that had similarities with the first 28 minutes of the cup final because we had two massive chances to go ahead – and we didn’t. That changes the course of the game.<\/p>\n
“We take it game by game, we had some very good moments a few days ago in the Champions League against Sporting.<\/p>\n
“We are playing so many games, we are the only team that is playing and playing and playing, that’s a difference as well.<\/p>\n
“But the positive is that today we have seen the level and there are five games to go. We are going to give it a real go.”<\/p>\n
On effect of losing this match: “We have full belief that we can do it. Today we showed again the team that we are. It’s in our hands and it’s there for the taking.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘It is in our hands and it is there for the taking’published at 08:37 BST 08:37 BST Manchester…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-540704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}