Martin Odegaard factors finger at Arsenal team-mates with two-word blast
Arsenal misplaced 2-1 at dwelling to Bournemouth on Saturday, that means that they've now gained simply certainly one of their final 5 Premier League matches as they bid to seal second place
Arsenal captain Martin Odegaard has instructed his team-mates that Saturday's dismal 2-1 loss at dwelling to Bournemouth was 'not acceptable'. The Gunners threw away one more lead on a day after they might've taken an enormous step in the direction of qualifying for subsequent season's Champions League.
Not solely do Arsenal journey to face Paris Saint-Germain within the semi-finals of the competitors on Wednesday, trailing 1-0 on mixture, however Mikel Arteta's aspect have Liverpool and Newcastle of their subsequent two Premier League video games. That's maybe why Odegaard was so offended post-match.
Odegaard, who assisted Declan Rice's opening objective, bemoaned when chatting with Sky Sports activities: "Huge disappointment. I believe we began the sport fairly properly – we obtained the objective and felt like we managed just about every little thing, however they rating and we lose management of the sport.
"We by no means discover the rhythm after that, it’s too chaotic and too sloppy from us. The second half isn’t acceptable. We’ve to maneuver on as now we have a large recreation arising. We’ve to prepare for that and analyse this recreation as properly.
"That is what we would like – we need to compete in each competitors. We wished to return right here and do an excellent recreation and win, however that wasn't the case. It’s a huge recreation on Wednesday, however now we have to make use of immediately to be prepared and beat PSG on Wednesday."
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His boss, Arteta, echoed that sentiment along with his personal feedback. "We had so many huge areas and massive alternatives to attain however we didn't. If you concede objectives from set items it's very troublesome to earn the three factors," the Gunners supervisor admitted.
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"We don't end the actions and also you give so many easy balls away. They (Bournemouth) run and in transition they’re actually good. Once we had them we didn't kill them. We gave them hope.
"We've misplaced factors right here to [Crystal] Palace, Fulham and Brentford – it's one thing we have to enhance. We had so many alternatives, we had huge areas, opened them up however we wanted to attain and we didn't.
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"And whenever you defend the field like we did and concede two objectives from set items at this stage it's very troublesome to earn the three factors. We didn't kill them, we gave them hope they usually scored from two set-pieces and it grew to become very chaotic.
"It didn't create constructive momentum however it's created plenty of anger, frustration, rage, disappointment – let's use all that for Wednesday."
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