Mikel Arteta spoke to BBC Sport after Arsenal’s draw against Fulham: “Very disappointed not to win the game, overall we absolutely dominated the game from start to end, we did all the things that we wanted to do during the game and unfortunately we concede one goal in one shot but the way the team played, the way the team wanted to win, it was unbelievable and very unfortunate for millimetres to win or don’t win in this league and that’s the disappointing thing tonight.”
On Arsenal’s response to going behind: “The way we started was unbelievable, we started to dominate the ball, dominate the high press. dominate every aspect of the game and suddenly you’re one goal down and that’s the quality of this league as well. You’re 1-0 down but the team reacted immediately, you score the goal and we wanted another one. We fight until the end and unfortunately we didn’t get the reward today.”
On scoring from a set piece again: “We should’ve scored from very different ways as well because we had some big chances.”
On not capitalising on Liverpool’s postponed game: “Yeah, we have really good momentum, the teams playing really well, winning a lot of games and today we wanted to do it again but the performance 100% was there. The winning probability would be so high but this is football and the margins are so small.
On defensive injuries: “I don’t know but unfortunately we lost a lot of defenders. We have to adapt, we’re playing with two players who’ve never played in that position with Thomas [Partey] and Jurrien [Timber] but we’re still playing the way we want to play so credit to the boys, they really want it.”