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Andrew Feinberg
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Mikel Arteta paid tribute to his Arsenal gamers after they disregarded a string of high-profile absentees to assert an “ugly” 1-0 win at rivals Tottenham.
This north London derby had been billed as doubtlessly make-or-break for Arsenal regardless of being the center of September after the Gunners dropped factors at dwelling to Brighton earlier than the worldwide break.
Manchester Metropolis’s fourth consecutive Premier League win on Saturday coupled with the unavailability of captain Martin Odegaard, Declan Rice and Mikel Merino forged doubt over Arsenal’s title credentials, however they answered them beautifully in N17.
After a dogged defensive show, centre-back Gabriel headed in the one objective after 64 minutes to maintain the guests inside touching distance of Metropolis earlier than subsequent weekend’s journey to the Etihad.
“Tremendous completely happy clearly. We all know what it means to our membership and our individuals to win a north London derby,” mentioned Arteta, who this week noticed Odegaard be a part of the suspended Rice and injured Merino on the sidelines after struggling an ankle situation on Norway obligation.
“We had good moments and others the place we needed to endure. We suffered as a result of we needed to adapt the plan due to the gamers that we had obtainable.
“I liked it. The second we began to get that information (Odegaard harm), the workforce received hungrier and hungrier to play that sport. It’s a giant praise to everyone on the membership to behave in a sure means.
Tremendous completely happy clearly. We all know what it means to our membership and our individuals to win a north London derby
Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta
“It’s a tricky week coming and as a substitute of discovering any excuses we did the alternative. We confronted the problem, performed with braveness and acknowledged the qualities we needed to win the sport.
“Now we have individuals which might be arduous and have thick pores and skin. They love the sport and we love successful.
“With a view to love the sport and win it’s important to do issues that individuals name ugly. Having fun with these ugly issues is a giant praise to this workforce proper now. Once you’re in a position to do this, usually you get an excellent reward.”
Spurs had began strongly with Dejan Kulusevski denied by David Raya earlier than Dominic Solanke despatched a header huge.
Arsenal additionally had moments on the break with Gabriel Martinelli squandering an excellent opening not lengthy after Kai Havertz had a header saved by Guglielmo Vicario.
The second interval adopted an identical sample initially with a Solanke header deflected huge and Micky van de Ven in a position to take a look at Raya, however Tottenham’s set-piece kryptonite harm them simply after the hour.
After Saka noticed a shot blocked by Pedro Porro, his in-swinging supply from a nook discovered Gabriel, who brushed previous Cristian Romero to energy dwelling what proved the winner.
Arteta lauded set-piece coach Nicolas Jover after Arsenal clinched a 3rd straight win on the dwelling of their rivals.
He added: “In his subject, in different fields, as an individual, the connection that we have now, that’s why I made the choice to deliver him to Metropolis after I was there after which to Arsenal.
“Him and the employees have injected a perception to the gamers that there are a lot of methods to win soccer matches. This can be a actually highly effective one. It’s given us quite a bit so massive praise to all of them.”
Like in final season’s derby defeat at dwelling, Spurs had been undone by a set-piece, however Ange Postecoglou performed down the rising narrative round his workforce.
“I do know for some purpose individuals suppose I don’t care about set-pieces and it’s a story that you may maintain happening for ages and ages,” Postecoglou mentioned.
“We work on them on a regular basis, like we do for each different workforce.
“ that they’re a risk. As I mentioned, for probably the most half, we dealt with them very well immediately, however we switched off for one and we paid a worth and also you be taught from that and you progress on.
“It’s my burden to hold, mate and I’m completely happy to do this. For me, there’s an even bigger image that’s at play right here that’s far more essential than the finer particulars of us attending to the place we need to.
“For us, the way in which ahead is to attempt to flip the soccer we’re taking part in now into one thing significant.”
