Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta, speaking to BBC Sport: “We have to congratulate Southampton. They are in Wembley, we are not.
"We didn't manage the long balls well enough. We just let the ball through us. Difficult to explain but credit to them.
On how he picks his players up: “They have already done it in the dressing room.”
On Gabriel's injury: “He couldn’t continue so we have to assess him.”
On if the likes of Declan Rice and Bukayo Saka will return for the Champions League: “I hope we can recover some players we are missing.”
On back-to-back defeats: “In the season you have to go through periods. Some of them are difficult for whatever reason. Now we have two very disappointing results and we have to pick ourselves up. Now we have to show what we are made of and the way to do that is on the pitch and not here.”
On how he keeps out the outside noise: “It’s always been like this from the beginning of the season when the expectations on your team are so high. That’s what you have to expect and live with in a natural way. Nobody is going to set the demands and standards higher than us that’s for sure.”
Did you know?
- Arsenal have lost back-to-back games in all competitions for the first time this season, while it's the first time they've been knocked out of the FA Cup by a team from a lower division since 2021-22 since losing to Nottingham Forest in the third round.
- The Gunners conceded 2 or more goals against a team from a lower division for the first time since losing 4-2 against Forest in the FA Cup in January 2018.
- Viktor Gyokeres has scored 17 goals in all competitions this season, the most by a player in their debut campaign for Arsenal since Alexandre Lacazette in 2017-18 (17). The last player to score more in their first season for the Gunners was Alexis Sanchez in 2014-15 (25).
