Arteta: Lewis-Skelly was phenomenal

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Mikel Arteta spoke to TNT Sports after Arsenal’s 2-1 North London derby win this evening. Here’s what he had to say.

On the result …

I think the boys were outstanding today. We played less than 72 hours ago, 120 minutes in a competition that we are out of and psychologically it’s not easy, but the way we performed and played today I think was exceptional.

On protecting a one goal lead …

I think we made it harder for ourselves because I think we deserved to score at least one or two more but yeah we have to suffer, we have the capacity to do that as well but the attitude for me was outstanding, the way they played, the focus that they played, the intensity, it was really good.

What foundation does this win give you?

Nothing, tomorrow and the next game, because we play every three days so the foundation of the last game is that we were incredibly good against United and we ended up losing the game somehow. It’s about the next day, today we wanted to play, so enjoy it now for a few hours and then it’s Villa.

Did it restore confidence?

My confidence comes seeing them every single day and the way they perform, it’s not about the results. If our result is going to take my confidence out or in, then we shouldn’t be doing this.

Did you worry after going a goal behind?

We cannot feel sorry for ourselves, what we can control is performance and performance is there and it’s been there constantly. The result, this is unfortunately football, it’s so volatile and what you deserve is occasionally get it most of the time, long term, medium term I’m sure we will do and today they’ve done it again.

Are you looking for a signing after the Gabriel Jesus injury?

Yes for sure because we lost two players, big players. Bukayo could be out for up to three months, so that’s a long time and Gabi that’s going to be out for a long, long time.

We’re going to try for sure. I mean we are actively looking. I think we have lost two very, very important players, we have 14 players in the squad and we play every three days, so we will try but let’s see what we can get.

On Myles Lewis-Skelly…

He was phenomenal today. He’s a real personality you know, he has so much drive and he has an attitude about him, but you have to play against Kulusevski and Johnson here, it’s not easy, the way he handled the situation and the occasion as well, it was tough I think.

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