The Arsenal manager Mikel Areteta praised Chelsea after the London derby on Sunday between the pages, which he may have hoped that his team’s victory looks better.
The Gunners came into play after offering only two points from the previous nine to fall up to 15 points behind the leaders of the Premier League Liverpool.
Since Nottingham Forest had won on Saturday within a point of Arsenal and Chelsea with the chance to close the gap to three, it was important for the Areta team to win a victory.
You did exactly the thanks to a lonely header of the first half of the striker Mikel Merino in the first half. Overall, the game lacked the quality from both sides and it was more than a little bizarre to hear what Areta later said about Chelsea.
“I think we deserve to win the match,” said the Arsenal boss to Arsenal BBC Sport.
“I think we were the better team. We didn’t admit any [chances] Apart from the strange rescue of David [Raya] In the first half against a team that, in my opinion, is the best attack team in the league – in the way you have set up, the patterns you have and the quality you have. “
It is this characterization of Chelsea as the best that the Premier League has to offer that can pull up some eyebrows. So far, the blues have achieved 53 league patients this season, now the same performance of Arsenal. It is certainly a good return, but Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City (both 55) have scored more often, while Liverpool achieved a division amount of 69.
Chelsea also exposed a second string attack in this game, which was forced to play without her three best and most reliable strikers: Cole Palmer, Nicolas Jackson and Noni Madueke.
When asked why Arsenal could no longer make up their general dominance, Areteta put it down on a “lack of assets, the lack of the last pass and the right decision, when the situation was so open.
“We had so many of them, but unfortunately we didn’t finish them. International break … let’s take a breath and ideally bring us back some players,” he said and referred to the continued absence of Talisman Bukayo Saka.