Mikel Arteta has mentioned he believes Arsenal are firmly within the Premier League title race and vowed to study classes from final season after beating leaders Liverpool 3-1 at Emirates Stadium on Sunday.
Bukayo Saka opened the scoring on 14 minutes in a raucous ambiance earlier than a Gabriel own-goal on the stroke of half-time drew the guests degree.
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A comical mix-up between Virgil van Dijk and Alisson Becker gifted Gabriel Martinelli the possibility to place Arsenal in entrance on 67 minutes earlier than substitute Leandro Trossard added a 3rd in stoppage-time to maneuver Arsenal inside two factors of Liverpool and above Manchester Metropolis into second place.
“We’re there, that is for positive,” mentioned Arteta. “We need to proceed to be there. We have been actually constant all season, if not you are not the place we’re at the moment.
“We take it sport by sport, the supply of the squad goes to be essential. We’ve got discovered that from final season. Let’s attempt to make that occur.
“It was a rare sport, an unbelievable efficiency from the gamers and our folks. That is the most effective ambiance I’ve seen all season.
“We demanded that. We needed to go to a unique degree and join it once more to the calls for that this league has. I believe the gamers left completely the whole lot.
“They put their coronary heart and soul in each single ball. I can’t be any prouder as a result of I understand how exhausting it’s to beat this crew, how a lot you need to endure and the way a lot you need to course of to do what we did on the ball.”
Saka limped off injured with 11 minutes to go however Arteta performed down the severity of that downside and added that the health concern that induced Gabriel Jesus to overlook the sport will solely hold him out for a matter of “days.”