Mikel Arteta faces the media following his Arsenal side’s clash with Chelsea in the Premier League. The Gunners took the lead through Mikel Merino, heading in past Robert Sanchez from a near-post corner from Martin Odegaard.
It was certainly a classic London derby-type match with plenty of yellow cards for both teams. However there was little in the way of goals with only Merino’s strike separating the sides.
After a period of three games without a win, Arteta will surely not care how the three points were collected, as long as they were.
You can hear everything Arteta has to say on all that and much more with football.london's chief Arsenal correspondent Tom Canton is in our live blog below.
On Arteta thinking that this was a fair score
I would like to have seen a different scoreline.
On if this is something he sees in Chelsea as a manager
I don't know, it's my opinion, I have a lot of data and what in the teams I play.
Did you say Chelsea are the best attacking team in the league?
By a mile, the stats say, everything that I've seen says it. Any player, they can combine on both sides, on weak sides and they are missing players now at the moment.
Merino playing himself into a job
And we know that. The emergency situation that was there we know that.
He's willing to win matches for us, he's never played that position before in his life.
On Merino's goal
We work on something similar. It was a different kind of finish.
It showed the crowd that is something we can do.
Enzo on the gap between Chelsea and Arsenal
I don't see a big difference between us and them.
Arsenal player ratings vs Chelsea
In what was a delightfully feisty London derby between Arsenal and Chelsea, the Gunners took home the spoils on the afternoon. It moves them nine points clear of the Blues and relieves some of the mounting pressure on their Champions League qualification hopes while piling more on their opponents.
Arsenal took the lead after a round of chances had already been missed in a dominant opening to the game. Martin Odegaard’s near-post corner headed past a shaky Robert Sanchez by Mikel Merino.
The Gunners should have been out of sight as their opponents created little. Merino missed a chance for a second on the volley while Odegaard hit a tame effort into the arms of Sanchez but they eventually got the job done.
Read how football.london rated the performances of the Arsenal players here.
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Hello and welcome to football.london's coverage of Mikel Arteta post-match press conference after the Gunners' clash with Chelsea.
You can hear everything Arteta has to say on all that and much more with football.london's chief Arsenal correspondent Tom Canton in our live blog below. Updates to follow...
