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Martin Odegaard names one area from Arsenal’s potentially expensive loss to Man City.
Martin Odegaard acknowledges that Arsenal’s offensive play in a 3-1 loss to Manchester City “wasn’t good enough,” and they also made mistakes defensively.
The Gunners knew that a win of any type would be sufficient to retain them at the top of the standings going into a big match against the defending Premier League champions at Emirates Stadium.
However, Mikel Arteta’s team would put up a fragmented performance against the Blues, with Eddie Nketiah missing a few great chances that might have drastically changed the game’s outcome and Takehiro Tomiyasu having a forgettable evening in goal.
Gunners captain Odegaard told the club’s official website on the back of a demoralising setback for title hopefuls: “It was a good game [between] two good teams, an unbelievable atmosphere. It was nice to play in, but it was of course a frustrating result.
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I think we did a lot of good things but in front of goal, we weren’t good enough. That’s frustrating but at the same time, we did a lot of good things, so we have to take those.
“I think everyone had a feeling that we were doing well [at half-time], that we had a lot of space to play [in]. We needed a few adjustments to improve a few things. In general, I thought the game we played was pretty okay, but in front of goal it wasn’t good enough.
Thank you so much to everyone who came and for everything they did to help us today. We’ll work very hard to give them something to hopefully be happy about on Saturday.”
Due to their defeat against City, Arsenal has dropped to second place in the Premier League, although they still have a game in hand and are only behind Pep Guardiola’s team on goal differential.
On Saturday, Arteta’s club will return to action when they travel to Aston Villa to play a game against former Gunners manager Unai Emery.