Steve Bould feels our under-21s can consider Tuesday night's 1-0 defeat to Peterborough in the Leasing.com Trophy as part of a valuable learning process.
Speaking after the defeat at London Road, Bould was keen to stress the invaluable lessons his side can learn from the fixture and facing a League One side in a competitive environment.
He spoke to Arsenal.com after the final whistle - and this is what he said:
on the performance…
I was delighted, in the first half we gave them an awful lot of problems, we had a lot of the ball and a lot of the play in their half we maybe didn’t create as many chances as we would have liked but we had a couple where you think maybe [we should have scored] and I think they came out in the second half better and that's the learning curve for our kids, who are really young, they pressed and came at us and the learning curve was how do you get round that now.