Granit Xhaka has questioned the mentality of Arsenal’s players after their defeat to Aston Villa on Tuesday night.
Trezeguet's first-half strike was enough to hand Dean Smith’s side all three points and boost their hopes of Premier League survival.
The defeat means that the Gunners cannot finish in the top seven and are now relying on the FA Cup in order to qualify for Europe.
And Xhaka, who came on as a second-half substitute against Villa, didn’t hold back when asked about his side’s performance at Villa Park.
“In my opinion, you can’t come here and play like this. It’s not good enough and you can’t play with this mentality,” he told reporters after the game.
“It was not enough to take something from today, and we knew if we won today, the last game if we won as well we could have got into the Europa League.
"But now we have to win the FA Cup and we have more pressure.
"But we will do everything to win the FA Cup now.
“Yes, we have a gameplan and we know they (Aston Villa) are very strong on set-pieces, but we did too many fouls near our box, too many corners against them and we didn’t play our gameplan.
"They were more aggressive than us and deserved it.”
