Mikel Arteta faced the media ahead of our Premier League clash with Brighton at Emirates Stadium on Saturday and discussed the state of the squad, responding to defeat at Selhurst Park, and the challenge posed by Brighton among other topics.
Read on for a full transcript:
on Monday’s game…
Monday is gone. We’re looking forward to playing in front of our fans.
on what he learnt from Monday…
We have to play better and we have to compete much better than we did on Monday.
on Thomas Partey’s injury…
It is a little bit ambiguous, but he has a significant injury and we’ll have to keep assessing him, but he will be out for some weeks.