Rice & Raya FIT, Havertz & Odegaard DOUBTS | Mikel Arteta | Brighton v Arsenal

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Panoorin Ngayon

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Mikel Arteta speaks to the media ahead of Arsenal's Premier League match against Brighton, with injury news on a host of key players as well as joking he could only play upfront in modern football. TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro. 00:17 - I have a very strong heart. 00:35 - Tested?: it’s been like that since I was born! 00:48 - Team News: Kai we’ll have to wait. The rest I don’t think anyone else. Odegaard we’ll see. White not available. Dowman is available. I hope Rice is okay. Raya is good to go. 02:24 - Corners; we want to be the most dominant team. 02:42 - Criticism: part of the job. 03:19 - game management: we have to do better with the ball. Credit to Chelsea. All the time we have to continue to learn. 04:06 - talk to players about nerves: we talk about every aspect of the game. We discuss everything. 04:28 - Brighton: very good side. Sequences of years with similar styles. Always a tough opponent. 05:00 - Eze: depending on the position and relationships around him. He needs movement around him to be efficient in spaces. 05:32 - seeing off games: there’s factors. Some related to us, but also to the opponents. 06:19 - Teams trying to catch up to you?: I was upset the way Chelsea scored. At City I used to work in set pieces. The game is evolving and becoming more difficult. 07:45 - don’t care how you score?: maybe do YouTube one goal is nicer. I’d like to play with three players extra in my own half to play beautiful football but it’s not possible. 08:17 - How is the game different to when you played?: Me? Only as a nine. 09:09 - Trying to calm crowd down: when you have the ball you need to make those decisions. If we’ve done three transitions and my heart rate is 180, we need to slow down. Fans also ask you to shoot from 40 yards. 10:13 - Get dominance win games?: especially in the areas we want to dominate. 10:40 - Zubimendi: different circumstances. The amount of games, the injuries and how good he’s been. 11:00 - Manage his workload?: we have. If we started it now it would be too late. For sur