Mikel Arteta relieved Arsenal’s Europa League dream remains alive as he reveals half-time Villarreal team talk

It might have been worse for the Gunners, who struggled through the first half and went all the way down to 10 males when Dani Ceballos was despatched off for a second yellow card offence earlier than the hour mark.

Villarreal additionally completed the sport a person down after Etienne Capoue acquired two yellow playing cards, leaving the second leg in north London subsequent week finely poised.

“Obviously we’re disillusioned we misplaced the sport as a result of it’s not the end result that we wished to take from it,” stated Arteta.

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“But after the story of the sport we now have to take it as a result of we’re within the tie, we’re alive and, with the circumstances that developed through the recreation, it put the sport and the tie in actual hazard at some stage.”

Speaking concerning the temper within the dressing room at full-time, Arteta stated: “Well evaluating the way it was at half-time, it is vitally totally different!

“I stated to them [at half-time]: ‘We have a possibility. It is an enormous problem what we now have forward of us, however we now have the chance to make it.

“But it must be now. In the return leg it will be too late. We have to alter it proper now. If we’re ready to try this we’re going to get right here in a totally totally different place’.

“We nonetheless had one other incident, which was the crimson card and enjoying with 10 males towards this team, and the team went to a unique stage once more and we acquired the objective.”

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