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Kaya Kaynak

Every word Mikel Arteta said on Wolves, Raul Jimenez and Arsenal's different Europa League form

Did you watch Wolves on Monday night and if so what did you make of them?

Yes. I think one of the most consistent teams in the league for the way they play. It's true on Monday that they had to play a different formation, but it's a team that has been having really good results in recent years, a manager that has been working with them for a long time that has recruited in a really intelligent way for the way they play. A really solid team, really hard to break and some talent as well. So we know that it's a team that is really hard to beat always.

How big a threat is Raul Jimenez?

Yeah, all the front players to be fair. They have goals from midfield, they have some dangerous attacking set pieces as well. They're a team that is really dangerous in transition moments. Let's enjoy a little bit tonight and let's start to prepare the game tomorrow morning and make sure that we can get a good result on Sunday.

Last season's win at Molineux was a statement win for you. Do you need to do that at home to kickstart your Premier League season now?

Yeah. And I said after the last disappointing result we had at home, well the last two, we have to put that right. We have to make the Emirates a fortress. Obviously it's a completely different feeling playing at home with out without fans. It's not the same but it's what we have at the moment and we need to win. We need a win on Sunday for sure.

Results in Europe and the Premier League are almost chalk and cheese in terms of the way you're playing and the freedom and swagger. Is there any way that there's less inhibition in the Europa League and that they players in the Premier League are a bit too fearful of the results?

Yeah it's true that as well in the Premier League that the teams are winning the games by very small margins apart from one or two. You see the games when they win, lose or draw it's very small margins. We've been in all the games probably apart from the last 20 minutes or 25 minutes against Aston Villa and at the end the boxes are defining what you do in games. It's true that in the opponent's box we haven't been as resilient and ruthless as we have to be and we've paid for that with some results. And as you've probably said in the UEFA we've found ourselves with more flow, with more creativity in the final third I would say and a more 'let's go for it and express ourselves'. But obviously the opponent some days is not the same but yeah something to look at.

How do you get the players in the Premier League to play with that 'let's go for it' attitude?

Well we try to encourage them to do that and to play with that freedom. It's true as well that we have a lot of rotation in the team for many different reasons. For injuries, some of them for the performances. And obviously the challenges that we face is in the big teams that we faced already in the first nine games of the Premier League. That's one thing that we have to improve obviously and we are trying to improve it.

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