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Mikel Arteta tells Sky Sports about his plans to improve his Arsenal squad and explains why the club must plot their own route back to the top; ...

The way Arsenal is viewed today is because of players and people like them." "The role of every player in the team has to be very clear. "We've been through a lot in the last two seasons and we are going to try to manage it in the best possible way. Then, every decision and every situation is going to allow you - or not allow you - to be as close as possible to that plan, which is our aim." "It's inevitable at some stages that one has to happen in favour of the other." "Our aim to improve in every single training session, to learn more, to be more efficient. "That's a big decision they have to make in recruitment, and then they are human beings as well. "But what the league was six years ago and what the league is today is completely different. "There are a lot of question marks there, but this is football." "You have to be ahead of the game," Mikel Arteta tells Sky Sports with a smile. "The context is completely different, so what was good three or five years ago is not good anymore, because the standards are so high. And then, the ones that you buy, [it's important] that they can have an impact straight away.

LONDON (AP) — As you were in the pursuit of Champions League qualification. At the other end of the Premier League, though, the relegation scrap just ...

”But it’s important at the end of the season to celebrate a big achievement with the team. The lead lasted seven minutes as Jarrod Bowen leveled from close range before the break. The South Korea forward was denied a shot at a hat trick after being substituted by manager Antonio Conte Otherwise it remains only a personal success to score these types of goals.” “We’re still in a massive scrap,” captain Seamus Coleman said. LONDON (AP) — As you were in the pursuit of Champions League qualification.

Having a season without European football has been impactful for Arsenal, and that freshness has them on the inside track for a top-four finish.

They will need a bigger, better squad to compete on two fronts, but this one is suddenly ticking along in the Premier League promisingly once again. While you've got a young team and you're trying to get a good enough squad together ... even last year, Arsenal were in the semifinal of the Europe League last year, we're in it this year, and it became quite a difficult season for them because of that. Takehiro Tomiyasu returned to the line-up only to later hobble off injured, while Nuno Tavares had one of those all-action afternoons in which he looks simultaneously a threat and a liability in almost every passage of play. With their next attack, Saka forced Fabianski to turn a low shot behind at his near post and from the resulting corner, Gabriel eventually scored. They have won just four of their past 14 games in all competitions as exertions at home and abroad begin to catch up with them. LONDON -- It has long felt as though Arsenal's absence from Europe this season would provide them a telling advantage at some stage, and Sunday's 2-1 win at West Ham was it.

Goals from both centre-halves gave us a battling, huge victory in the chase for Champions League qualification. Rob Holding's first-ever Premier League goal ...

The striker shifted it past Kurt Zouma, onto his right foot, but placed his shot just wide from 20 yards. As the game entered the final 20 minutes we had a glorious chance to score the third. Copyright 2022 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Eddie Nketiah had earned a corner after a run and shot that Lukasz Fabianski got down well to turn wide. Shortly afterwards we retook the lead. Another inswinging corner caused problems, the ball was half cleared to Gabriel Martinelli and he crossed for compatriot Gabriel to head in from close range.

Mikel Arteta's side were far from their best at West Ham but they showed signs of growing up at the London Stadium.

All the same Arsenal still found a way here, taking advantage of West Ham’s lack of height through set-piece goals from Holding and Gabriel Magalhães. And to give him his due Tavares was still surging at the end, winning a crucial header in his area before starting a counterattack. He was hooked during the first half against Nottingham Forest in January, substituted early against Crystal Palace last month and was very fortunate only to give away one penalty against Manchester United last weekend, while against West Ham he spent large portions of the game simply knocking easy passes straight out of play, needlessly putting his team under pressure. Is he soon to be found hiding in a laundry basket on a big Champions League night at the Emirates? There is certainly something about Arsenal that rubs opponents up the wrong way. With Kieran Tierney out for the season, Tavares is a worry for Arteta. When Tottenham watch this game they will know where to attack Arsenal in next week’s pivotal north London derby. West Ham were repeatedly finding space down that flank, repeatedly running through the same passing sequences to send Vladimir Coufal away, and it was not much of a surprise that Tavares was caught out eventually, the Portuguese’s positioning all over the place when Jarrod Bowen cancelled out Arsenal’s lead on the stroke of half-time. Midway through the first half of an utterly forgettable London derby, Nuno Tavares picked up the ball near the halfway line and set off on an adventure.

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LONDON (Reuters) -Arsenal regained fourth spot in the Premier League as they ground out a 2-1 victory away at West Ham United thanks to a second-half ...

“You have to find a way to win and today we won ugly. We adapted. “We showed incredible spirit.

Spurs have four huge games ahead of them in their bid to secure Champions League football for next season.

There was also the reverse fixture back in December, where Spurs took a point in a 2-2 draw. If they are to take any positives heading into the game, then Jurgen Klopp’s side may be fatigued, with Tuesday’s Champions League clash against Villarreal still to come. Speaking after the win, the Italian said: “It was a good performance against a really good team.

Arsenal midfielder Granit Xhaka believes he is ready to captain the club again if called upon.Xhaka, 29, was stripped of the Arsenal captaincy by former ...

In the hills above Drammen, a skinny youngster who would go on to sign for Real Madrid at 16 and now shines for Arsenal announced himself I was missing a coach like him, very warm and open with clear ideas and he is always behind me no matter what people were saying about me.” In the hills above Drammen, a skinny youngster who would go on to sign for Real Madrid at 16 and now shines for Arsenal announced himself

Arsenal reclaimed a Champions League spot from rivals Tottenham with a 2-1 victory over West Ham at the London Stadium.

45’ - GOAL! WEST HAM 1 –1 ARSENAL – Vladimir Coufal broke down the right and pulled the ball back to Bowen, who had found a pocket of space in the box. For a moment however the Arsenal keeper looked in trouble. Subs: Smith Rowe - 6, Cedric - 6, Lokonga – n/a 54’ - GOAL! WEST HAM 1 – 2 ARSENAL – Martinelli dinked in a wonderful cross towards the back post, which was headed in by Gabriel. Lukasz Fabianski got a hand to it, but the effort was too powerful to stop. Subs: Yarmolenko – n/a, Antonio - 5, Soucek - 5, Holding was also defensively solid and on the end of a number of crucial blocks in first half that denied West Ham the chance to take an early lead.

Rob Holding starred at both ends of the pitch in our 2-1 win over West Ham on Sunday, scoring his first Premier League goal to break the deadlock, ...

Copyright 2022 The Arsenal Football Club plc. he laughed. "It would have been nice to go in one-nil, but he gave us all a shouting and telling off and we came out and looked more like a team and played how he wanted to play."

LONDON (AP) — Headers from defenders Gabriel and Rob Holding nudged Arsenal closer to a return to the Champions League with a 2-1 victory at West Ham ...

Declan Rice was at the heart of West Ham’s response that saw the hosts level just before halftime. The remaining four games include a derby trip for Arsenal to Tottenham on May 12. Saka picked out Holding, who nodded in his first Premier League goal almost six years after his debut.

Ben White missed his first Premier League game since August, with a tight hamstring injury, while Bukayo Saka and Takehiro Tomiyasu were both withdrawn late ...

Tomiyasu has just that he had been out for so long and could not continue. Bukayo was fine, he was really fatigued and he has been through a little injury as well. Copyright 2022 The Arsenal Football Club plc.

It's advantage Arsenal in the race for the Champions League after a 2-1 victory at the London Stadium.

- Xhaka – 6 - Elneny – 6 - Soucek – 6 - Antonio – 6 - Zouma – 6 - Coufal – 6 Gabriel was the beneficiary of West Ham’s largesse on this occasion, converging on Martinelli’s cross unattended and planting his header in the net via the leg of Fabianski. Interestingly, in an entirely co-incidental episode, Saka was booked for a trip on Bowen two minutes into the second half. Saka swung it in and Holding rose unchallenged to make a statue of Lukasz Fabianski. Mikel Arteta went through his Riverdance routine in the technical area as if the goal were the fruit of some grand design. In the absence of the brittle Thomas Partey, Arsenal’s promising three ball of Martin Odegaard, Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Martinelli are starved of quick ball. West Ham, having played 30 per cent more games than Arsenal, care of their ongoing European involvement, rested the influential Tomas Soucek and Michail Antonio seemingly without impact. Such is the chasm in quality beneath Manchester City and Liverpool you wonder what the point might be other than the PR benefit associated with Champions League participation.

But for Arteta the smooth outweighed the rough. Arsenal had brought an incredible record against West Ham into the game – 20 wins from the previous 27 league ...

West Ham had nothing left and they were fortunate that Nketiah did not add to the scoreline from any of three breakaways. When the ball ran through to the far side, Martinelli returned it towards the back post. Ramsdale threw up a hand to keep out Rice’s near-post flick from a Pablo Fornals corner and it came when Rice picked out Coufal, who cut back for Bowen. The striker’s first touch set up the shot and the technique on it was excellent, conjuring power, the ball flicking off Magalhães and beating Ramsdale. It was his 16th goal of the season – and 10th in the league. Moyes asked Aaron Cresswell to play on the left in a central defensive two, with Ryan Fredericks away from his preferred flank at left-back and Bowen filling in up front. It was simply about the result. To the Arsenal manager it was not about how the victory came or in what kind of style.

Mikel Arteta was a happy man after our battling victory over West Ham at the London Stadium. Goals from our two centre backs gave us a third vital win in a row, ...

Well, mathematically everything is open so, we’re going to have to go to Leeds and win again because everybody is going to put pressure because everybody wants to play in the position that we are right now. I think I would be wasting my time because you know the players, the staff, everybody is with their phones and they all know. Those performances have been really consistent throughout the season, defending and now scoring really important goals for us, which is an add on that you hope to have in your centre defenders but it’s easy to find. Tomiyasu is just that he had been out for so long and could not continue. It’s a massive win, under very difficult circumstances because we put ourselves in real problems, especially with our decision making and in ball possessions, and the spaces we were attacking, and the timing of it and the efficiency of it. The way they fought, the way they understood how they have to manage the game in certain moments, with the way we defended, because we didn't concede anything, it was phenomenal.

LONDON (AP) — As you were in the pursuit of Champions League qualification. At the other end of the Premier League, though, the relegation scrap just ...

”But it’s important at the end of the season to celebrate a big achievement with the team. The lead lasted seven minutes as Jarrod Bowen leveled from close range before the break. The South Korea forward was denied a shot at a hat trick after being substituted by manager Antonio Conte Otherwise it remains only a personal success to score these types of goals.” “We’re still in a massive scrap,” captain Seamus Coleman said. LONDON (AP) — As you were in the pursuit of Champions League qualification.

LONDON (AP) — Headers from defenders Gabriel and Rob Holding nudged Arsenal closer to a return to the Champions League with a 2-1 victory at West Ham ...

Declan Rice was at the heart of West Ham’s response that saw the hosts level just before halftime. The remaining four games include a derby trip for Arsenal to Tottenham on May 12. Saka picked out Holding, who nodded in his first Premier League goal almost six years after his debut.

Aaron Ramsdale has claimed that he didn't know Tottenham Hotspur beat Leicester City following Arsenal's victory against West Ham United.

The former Bolton defender added: "It’s going to be touch and go at times. Man of the match Holding weighed in on the top-four situation, urging his teammates to deal with the pressure that they will face in the next few weeks. Every game from now until the end of the season is vital for us to get three points for that fourth place, or third place if we look even higher."

Or win three and draw Spurs, qualify for the Champions League. Arsenal are two points ahead of Tottenham with the same number of remaining games and a North ...

And the lads have a chance to make it even better and give us more to celebrate with the remaining four matches. They’ve managed it with matches to spare and while fielding the youngest average starting lineup in the Premier League. They are eight points better this season over the corresponding matches from last year and have already bettered the points haul. Arsenal still have plenty to play for this season. You could look at the remaining matches and give multiple reasons why each team will or will not be motivated to put in a good performance, regardless of whether they appear to have something to play for or not. Arsenal have their sights set on a 4th place finish and a return to the Champions League. The task is straightforward - win out, qualify for the CL. Or win three and draw Spurs, qualify for the Champions League. Arsenal are two points ahead of Tottenham with the same number of remaining games and a North London Derby on May 12th. Tottenham have a significantly better goal difference (7) than Arsenal, so unless the final four matches somehow erase that, if the two sides finish tied on points, Spurs finish higher.

Mikel Arteta: We won ugly and big teams have to find a way to win ugly when they dont play at their best; Jamie Redknapp: Nketiah has given Arsenal a ...

"I think his hold-up play has got better too. "With the ball we were really poor. They showed the spirit we have. Smith continued: "He's always looking on the shoulder of a defender, he's got a bit of pace about him and he's always got the whites of the posts in mind. "You have to find a way, you have to play the game that is necessary to play when you are not at your best and we did that in a lot of moments." "He gives the team a release and it changes the whole complexion of the game."

Arsenal are interested in Monaco midfielder Aurelien Tchouameni, according to recent reports. Gunners technical director Edu is keen to strengthen their ...

"The front page of Marca will not define me or allow me to perform well in matches. Talking to French publication L’Equipe last year, he said: "I remember I was in Paris, after the Nations League. I woke up and my phone had blown up. Speaking about the youngster to German outlet wettfreunde, Di Marzio said: "A lot of clubs in the Premier League are following him. Napoli's Fabian Ruiz and Leicester City playmaker Youri Tielemans are two names that have been heavily linked with a move to the Emirates Stadium. It doesn't. Tchouameni, who is valued between €40million-€50million (£33.5million-£42mllion) by CIES Football Observatory, has enjoyed a stellar campaign with Monaco, registering 3.38 interceptions, 11.51 recoveries and 5.65 progressive passes per 90 minutes as per fbref.

Arsenal regained fourth spot in the Premier League with a 2-1 victory away at West Ham United thanks to a second-half header by Brazilian defender Gabriel ...

West Ham levelled on the stroke of halftime, however, with Jarrod Bowen’s shot taking a deflection to beat Aaron Ramsdale. Gabriel ensured Arsenal remained in the driving seat for a long-awaited return to the Champions League although, with a north London derby still to come, the race is far from over. Arsenal regained fourth spot in the Premier League with a 2-1 victory away at West Ham United thanks to a second-half header by Brazilian defender Gabriel here today.

Arsenal, Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur all have four Premier League matches remaining this season and the trio of London clubs are battling it out for third ...

That trio of games comes after a meeting with Wolverhampton Wanderers at Stamford Bridge on Saturday. However, they do have the disadvantage of playing in the FA Cup final against Liverpool at Wembley Stadium in the middle of their quartet of final league games. With four games left, it appears to be a three-team race for fourth place between the London trio to clinch third and fourth. And a slip-up for defending Champions League holders Chelsea could potentially affect their chances of qualifying for the competition next season.

Arsenal have tied youth-team striker Khayon Edwards down to a new long-term deal. Edwards has enjoyed a prolific season and caught the eye of many suitors.

In the hills above Drammen, a skinny youngster who would go on to sign for Real Madrid at 16 and now shines for Arsenal announced himself With Edwards’ campaign finished by injury, it was possible to step up talks and he put pen to paper last week. In the hills above Drammen, a skinny youngster who would go on to sign for Real Madrid at 16 and now shines for Arsenal announced himself

LONDON (AP) — Arsenal remained in fourth place after Gabriel's header secured a 2-1 win at West Ham in the Premier League. That kept Arsenal two points ...

Man Utd's player care review, Edwards' Arsenal deal, Leicester land Southampton transfer chief, Newcastle's new signing, Luton trigger bonus.

Promotion to the Premier League was more a dream than a genuine opportunity and it’s why there were no specific promotion bonuses included in player’s contracts. “The head of medical went to Leipzig, the second in medical went to run Manchester City women’s football team. Who does succeed Dyche permanently has certainly entered the head of chairman Alan Pace, who is understood to have several candidates under consideration for the role. This highlights the club’s determination to review existing practices and improve the structures and quality of the club’s first-team environment before Ten Hag’s summer arrival. They travel to leaders Fulham tonight and then entertain Reading on Saturday. With Edwards’ campaign finished by injury, it was possible to step up talks and he put pen to paper last week. It is also understood that United’s current head of player care Anne Wylie has chosen to retire after 36 years at the club. “I see it as a compliment to the football club,” Mowbray said. Scheckter will conduct the audit via interviews with employees across the club, which may include players and he was present at the training ground last week. Mason has been at Ewood Park since 2014. She has run player care since 2017. Player care involves basic essentials, such as crucial support and assistance in helping with relocation, and onboarding when a new player signs, particularly from abroad, as well as advising on how to improve player buy-in and the culture of a squad.

Arsenal fans heaped praise on Mohamed Elneny after the midfielder produced another dominant performance against West Ham, despite still fasting as part of ...

'The club gives me the freedom,' the midfielder said about Ramadan last month. Players usually have substantial pre-match meals and take on plenty of fluid during games. Naturally, this could have an adverse effect on footballers, who require the correct nutrients to fuel them for matches.

Alexis Sanchez left a comment in support of his old Arsenal teammates following their important win over West Ham United on Sunday.

Alexis has his own fond memories of the London Stadium, having scored a hat-trick on his first appearance there. Though the comment itself is relatively mundane, it’s not often we see Alexis talking about his old club nowadays. Alexis Sanchez left a comment in support of his old Arsenal teammates following their important win over West Ham United on Sunday.

Arsenal are reportedly keen to sign Aurelian Tchouameni, Serge Gnabry and Gabriel Jesus.

Since the turn of the year, Arteta has preferred to utilise a 4-3-3 system whenever possible, with Thomas Partey at the base of midfield as Granit Xhaka and Martin Odegaard are deployed further forward in the number eight roles. The young Frenchman boasts elite defensive numbers, registering 3.08 tackles and 3.38 interceptions per 90 minutes in Ligue 1 this term. Rotating the midfield will be key next season, particularly when you consider the aforementioned fitness issues that Partey struggles with. According to transfer expert Gianluca Di Marzio, Arsenal are interested in Monaco midfielder Aurelien Tchouameni as well as Bayern Munich winger Serge Gnabry, who used to ply his trade at the Emirates Stadium. Meanwhile, CIES Football Observatory value Gnabry and Tchouameni at a combined €90million-€120million (£75million-£100million). The north London side currently find themselves fourth in the Premier League table, two points clear of fifth-placed Tottenham Hotspur, who they play later this month.

Despite being just 23 years old, Martin Odegaard has worn the armband for Arsenal's last four Premier League matches and led the Gunners to three ...

'I know a lot of Arsenal fans were asking if they want him back, but there's not many like him and he's only going to get better. It might be one where, he's there for the future, he's a fantastic player, good type of guy as well. He's a lovely player to watch.