Great victory for Arsenal yesterday afternoon, 4-2 against Leicester, at the end of the match, the Gunners coach Mikel Arteta he spoke like this to BBC Match of the Day: “I am very happy, first of all with the performance. I think we were incredible today. We deserved to win with many more goals. Starting the second half as we did, conceding the first goal made things more difficult and then with the draw the team showed incredible character to keep pushing, creating one opportunity after another. We suffered more than we should have, but this is football. I’m really happy with the team.”
On his team’s mentality: “Fantastic. How we handled the situation, we thought it should have been much more and it wasn’t and suddenly it’s 2-2, but we had to face a very good team with difficult circumstances and we are We remained very composed. We had a lot of clarity, understanding what we had to do and we continued to do what we had to do and we earned the right to win. James Justin scored an incredible, world-class goal.”
On the two goals scored in injury time: “Now we are really happy, but we could have been in a very different position due to the two goals conceded. But for sure, given the performance, we can only be super happy.”
On the possibility that the match could have ended in a draw: “There is always a possibility, this is the Premier League, every team has incredible resources to create problems and today they scored two goals with very little, but this is the quality they have” .