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Chris Wheatley

Every word Mikel Arteta just said on Arsenal's loss, disallowed goal, Lacazette and Luiz's injury

What would you put that defeat down to, could you have been a bit more ruthless in front of goal?

To be fair I was really pleased with the first half. The way we pressed and the aggression we showed. We were effective with that and restricted them to nothing.

We scored the goal on the set-piece which I don't know how it got disallowed. We needed to be patient and not to make any errors.

We made the decision when there is no pressure on the ball to try and attack that space and they scored a good goal. We didn't manage to have enough continuity in our play, we didn't put the ball as often as we could in the box.

It's a very harsh for result for us considering what happened in the game.

Have you been given an explanation for the disallowed goal? You obviously feel it's a harsh decision

Granit is behind Schmeichel so it's nothing to do with him. They made the decision and we can't change it now.

From various camera angles it looked like a perfectly good goal ...

We can have our view but we have the specialists who made the call and it obviously had a massive impact on the game. We are two teams where the marginals are minimal but we still should have not lost the game.

Can you give us an idea of the frustration in the dressing room? It just seemed as the match went on you kind of fizzled out ...

I think fatigue had a say there as well. We didn't look as sharp on the ball. We didn't have much purpose on the ball. David (Luiz) gave us something different when we wanted to do something with the low blocks.

Credit to them, they are really organised and it's difficult to create chances. We created one with Hector and we didn't convert. It's an aspect we have to improve on.

Were you surprised that Hector Bellerin wasn't sent off for a lunge on James Justin when he was on a yellow card?

I haven't seen the action. I've seen the reaction of the bench from Leicester.

I know you've talked about the disallowed goal but Alex missed a great chance and would you agree he looks low on confidence?

The strikers need goals and he looked sharp and aggressive in his play. He had the opportunity to score the goal but he didn't.

Is David okay, Bukayo Saka also seemed to be struggling (with injury) ...

We lost a few players in the past week or so. David had a muscular problem and we'll have to assess him in the next 48 hours or so.

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