Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta spoke to Sky Sports after his side's draw to Liverpool: “We know that the margins are very small. I think we have two different halves.
"The first one, where we have a lot of domination, created big situations with players almost onside the six-yard box to pick a player up, and we didn't find the right pass to score the goal. And the second half was a bit more of a struggle.
"This game needs some magic moments, and at Anfield, [Dominik] Szoboszlai did it, and they won the game, and today it didn't happen, but you cannot win it, you cannot lose it.
"We have some moments where we have the right positional advantages to really hurt them, and then when we got into these areas, we lacked quality to pick the players.
"We've come from a very demanding schedule. The last six games that we've played in this Christmas period, and we've come out of that in a really strong position."
On Gabriel Martinelli trying to push Conor Bradley off the pitch: “Probably he doesn’t know because knowing Gabi, there is zero intention.
"I don't know what happened to Conor, but hopefully it's not bad, but obviously, there is no intention from Gabi to do anything bad to him."
Did you know?
- Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta remains winless against Arne Slot (D3 L1), with the Dutchman being the only opposing manager to avoid defeat in his first four games against the Spaniard (all between Arsenal and Liverpool in the Premier League).
- Arsenal failed to score in a Premier League game for the first time since their reverse fixture with Liverpool in August (0-1 at Anfield) – indeed, the only two occasions they've failed to find the net across their last 32 league matches have both been against Arne Slot's side.
