VIDEO: Arteta on Arsenal's performance against Nurnberg

Arsenal played their first pre-season friendly against Nurnberg. Arteta's side drew with the German side 1-1 after Saka's great opening goal was cancelled out by Okunuki in the second half.

Gunners coach Mikel Arteta spoke about what he liked about his team and what his players need to improve on. "The way we played the first half I think it was really good. I think we could have scored more goals even in the second half. We wanted it. We had two big chances to score and we didn't.

"This is part of football and mistakes are as well a part of sports. I liked a lot of things that I saw in the first half. Especially as a few of the boys have only had three training sessions. So they're still getting some minutes, some exposure to start to understand and they start connecting with each other again" added the Spaniard.

"We saw a lot of good things obviously, with the amount of changes that we have to made that is why the game declined, especially in quality and in control. We knew it was going to happen," concluded the Spanish manager.

 

July 13, 2023