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Arteta on the defeat, Lacazette and the top four

Mikel Arteta gave an honest assessment of our performance after we slumped to a disappointing defeat against Brighton on Saturday afternoon.

The result condemns us to back-to-back defeats with just eight games remaining in our fight for a top-four spot.

After the match, the boss discussed our performance, Alexandre Lacazette's form, playing Granit Xhaka at left-back and how we bounce back.

Read on for a full transcript:

on the performance…

The first half was really poor again. The reaction that we wanted to show and everything that we talked about, we didn’t make it happen on the pitch.