Michael Arteta (San Sebastian, 1982) lived in a very complex season. Injuries hurt a team, two runner -waps often, finally winning the Premier League, but it did not overthrow him. The Champions League and Tie Escape with Real Madrid, which has been a new illusion for the club that has not been in the semifinals for 16 years.
In the Arsenal Sports City, the sun meets with EFE and newspapers, to review and detail his profession as coach at Emirates Stadium The biggest challenge of this course is looking forward to you before Real Madrid.
ØDegaard, Gabriel, Gabriel, Jesus, White, Saka, Havertz, Tomias … All were injured for 2, 3 or 4 months. Is this awesome at this time of the season?
Because the culture and any context have made us live the moment of living, despite everything that happened to us. They are not just injuries, but there are five expulsions, which are barbaric for a large team in the league. It has a lot of merit, because the boys want, they do not surrender, they do not make excuses and see other way, because the illusion is to win and win the big trophies.
Do you want to be motivated for a beautiful part of the season, or if there are more available players, is there disappointment?
There are two, because I have written, the target is to reach this stage when we are in April, the entire group is available. We were able to play six top games earlier and if we were in extension tie, they were able to complete it all week. From what I have ined, where we are in the world, there is the world. Still we were able to receive, and we achieved the most beautiful things: we took young players, others rebelled in different positions and grow to everyone.
“This is one of the greatest qualities of this team. He wants a lot, but, rather than, he rebelled against what’s coming”
Did elasticity strengthen these players for everything that happened?
I think it has been positively affected by them, because I think they are the experiences you take, in which both of you and the group are trying to get it to the face and eyes of what is happening and to get it goals. That is the psychology. In the end, the victory depends on the smaller details, but there is a lot of being there and it is the quality of the team. One of the greatest qualities of this team, he wants a lot, but, rather than, rebellion against what he comes.
After all these seasons, the surprising point has changed to demand, titles, and more, how do you hurt that fast transformation?
We have been able to change that understanding, because it is very difficult, especially when we are too far away and we think it will cost us too much. Demand is related to the level of yours and the others at you. It should be considered positive, because it means you are close to getting what you want.
I think the jump, which has been a jump, which has been a club since 2019 in England, has now won three titles in two years and he has lost the last two premiere league, how are you?
This is a good question, but I don’t know, I don’t answer. Above all, what we have done is not to improve a team, or to give up a team, in all aspects of all aspects, to change the club that is in a very difficult situation to believe in the social level, economic level and sports level, and especially where we can be. Now that it touches, winning, we have taken a lot of action, winning it. In the end, the trial is common, because it is an arsenal, people must confirm that we should not win or win.
And how can the arsenal allow you to win?
I don’t know it, but if you are finally close. This league is the best in the world, and there are six teams that can win anyone. And the title is not “tried”, the title is different and I don’t want to say the word.
Winning the Premier League is a confirmation of the project that he works in the arsenal, but is the important support for the project to overcome the tie against Real Madrid?
Actually. In the end we need to know where we are and what history we have. This club is not twice in the quarterfinals of champions in 15 years, which is said soon. And what is like, there are a lot of other tasks we have done. But we have to create our own history, and go through these qualifiers, win them and enter the semifinals. That’s the next step we need to take.
The aim of the recognized goal is to reach the quarterfinals, but when playing against Real Madrid, this tie is meant to be a form? For yourself, by verification of your project; For the club, reach the semifinals of the Champions League for the first time after the 2008-2009 season; For Martin øDegaard, the face became his Exxquipo Arsenal captain …
I don’t seem to do that, it seems to me. Since he is a historically king of competition, and in addition, I think that the opponent makes us more illusory with the most own merits. We have a maximum demand opponent in the best European competition. So give it for it.
“We must be better than them. We do not create from the minute, and in decisive moments we are effective,”
What scene should be given for the arsenal to remove Real Madrid?
First, we are better than them, we create it from the minute and we will be effective in decisive moments. We are well aware of how matches are being decided in the Champions League.
The problem is that against Real Madrid, being good is not always a thing that leads you to defeat them …
It may be, but if you are worse, the probability is very low (laughs). We have no chance there.
“Gabriel means much more than what he gives us in the game for existence and personality, the leadership he performs on our team”
You cannot count the injured Gabriel before Real Madrid. How much does the game plan affect a decrease like you and do? This is one of the powerful leaders and voices authorized in the locker room, stopped the main hazardous weapon in the ball …
Yes, Gabbi (Magalhis) means that for the existence and personality he has, beyond what he gives us in the game, the leadership of our team. But we have lost it and you have to adjust the subjects. We have to play based on the qualities we have in every player. We turn it around and we try differently.
“Odegar won the role of the leader with the performance, his personality, the way he was, and all of us. He was at an unusual level.
Another correct name is Martin ødegaard. Real Madrid fan can see him, as captain and leader, football and emotional, arsenal, as well as one of the best players of the Premier League and Europe: ‘Why did he not win in Real Madrid?’ What happened in the Arsenal to become this player?
Well, like all the players, it is time to display on the grass that he has found in their place. From there, he has earned this site since the first day he arrived. Then he did not have this role and with his personality, the way he was in the show, and he won all of us. It is at an unusual level.
“Real Madrid definitely has an unpredictable part, it is moments. It can’t be trained”
How much is the way to prepare the game depending on the opponent? How much does the opponent focus on Real Madrid or what your team can do?
The vast majority of what we prepare depends on us. But, depending on the opponent, how much we dedicate, and what percentage are already things. There is a part of Real Madrid, which is an emotional part. Then it is usually the Able Able part of what is doing, and the most definitely unpredictable part. It cannot be trained. We can try and try to tend to talk to or to to tie, but it is part of the game and what they and their greatness.
How do you work against the inhumanity?
There are things we try to do and talk to. Stopping the video today, it is easy to give it to the occasion what happened in Santiago Bernabayu (against Manchester City), but the important thing is that we can do it and stop it when it happens. We need to know it and identify it because it is a very important part of the tasks they do, like us, when we can produce those moments, we are a very dangerous team.
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After starring many legendary backs, do you have its arms that may be the key to the emotional part of Real Madrid and in the tie?
Completely. For me, in qualifying matches, many winning teams should be afraid of the local stadium. A power, special, in which anything can happen. Then, in big games, big players. They are the moments of big players, they are in the tie, but very difficult.
And do arsenal have those big players?
We have them and we have to do them now. That is the step we need to take.
