Michael Arteta (San Sebastian, 1982) lived in a very complex season. Injuries have pulled a team, and after two runner -ups, finally able to win the Premier League, but this did not knock him. Tie Escape against the Champions League and Real Madrid is a new illusion for a club that has not been in the semifinals for 16 years.
In a sunn afternoon at Arsenal Sports City, Arteta meets Ef and Newspaper, for the details of the Emirates Stadium as coach at the Emirates Stadium What’s waiting for you before Real Madrid, the biggest challenge of this lesson.
ØDegaard, Gabriel, Gabriel Jesus, White, Saga, Haveds, Domius … All were injured 2, 3 or 4 months. How wonderful is this at this time of the season?
Because the group that is a culture and suitable for any environment, made us live in the moment we live, despite everything that happened to us. They are not only injuries, but there are five discharges, which is barbaric for a large team in a league. It has a lot of merit because boys want, they do not surrender, they do not seek excuses, because the illusion is successful and winning big trophies.
Do you think you have the motivation to the beautiful part of the season, or are it frustrated with not coming with the available players?
There are both, because I wrote, and when we were in April, this phase must be reached with the entire group. Playing in six best games before, if we came in an extension tie, they all finished it. Since we imagined where we are, there is a world. We have been able to change, and we have reached the most beautiful things: we took the young players, others were agitated at different levels, and everyone was growing.
“One of the best qualities of this team is that he wants a lot, but except that, he will rebellion against the arrival.”
To what extent did the backlash of all that happened?
I think this has affected them positively because I think they are the experiences you take, in which the face and eyes are responding to what you wear and it is trying to get back the goals. That is the mood. In the end, winning depends on the smallest details, but the more it goes there, that is the quality of a team. One of the best qualities of this team is that he wants a lot, but except that, he will rebellion against coming.
After these seasons, a point of surprise is needed, topics, and more, how do you meet that rapid change?
How beautiful we ended up changing that idea, because it was very difficult, especially because we were far away, and we thought it would cost us more. The need is related to the position you have and the position of others feel that you have. It should be considered positive because it means that you are close to getting what you want.
In the UK, the jump, which you have been in the UK, has been a jump, a club, and now I think it is how it is, but how is the Spanish fan who has won three titles in two years and that he has lost the last two Premier League?
This is a good question, but I don’t know, I have no answer. What we have done in all things is not to improve a team, or a group, and what we have done is to change a club that was in a very difficult situation in all aspects, social levels, economic levels, and sports levels, especially at the level of the level we can be. Touching it now is a success, we have taken many steps, and touching it is a success. In the end, the trial is normal because it is Arsenal, because people have to decide that we are not winning or winning.
When can Arsenal be allowed to win?
I don’t know it, but if you are close to the end. This league is the best in the world, and there are six teams that can win anyone. The title is “not trying”, the title will be different, I don’t want to say the word.
The record of a Premier League is to ensure the plan to work and build in Arsenal, but is it an important support for this project to deal with the tie against Real Madrid?
Of course. Eventually we need to know where we are and what history we have. The club has not been twice in the quarter -finals of the club in 15 years, which is soon to be said. As it is, there are many things we have done. But we need to create our own history, and go through these qualified persons and win them and go into the semifinals. That is the next stage we need to take.
It was a goal to come to the quarterfinals, but when playing against Real Madrid, did this tie be understood as a kind of claim? For you, by confirmation of your plan; As for the club, reach the semifinals of the Champions League for the first time after the 2008-2009 season; As for Martin øDegaard, he turned his Execchipo into Arsenal captain …
I don’t feel like that, I have illusion. I think the opponent has touched us, which makes us more illusory because he has historically been the king of the competition, and with his own qualifications. We have an opponent who demands the highest in the best European competition. So give it for it.
“We have to be better than them. We have not created from the minute. We are useful in decisive moments,”
What scene should be given to Arsenal to remove the Real Madrid?
First, we are better than them, we create it from a minute, and we are useful in decisive moments. We are well aware of how matches are determined in the Champions League.
The problem is that against Real Madrid, it is not always the same thing that will always lead you to win them …
It may be, but the probability is very low if you are bad (laughing). We have no chance there.
“Gabriel means the existence and personality he has, and the leadership he proves within our team,” he means “beyond giving us in the game.”
You can’t trust the wounded caprice before Real Madrid. How much does a sports plan affect and reduce conditions like you? This is one of the recognized security leaders and voices in the locker room, the main offensive weapon in the ball stopped …
Yes, coffee (Magalhis) is beyond what he gives us in the game for his existence and personality and the leadership that proves within our team. But we have lost it and you have to fix things. We need to play based on the qualities we have with each player. We will turn it up and we will try differently.
“Odekar has won all of us with his personality. He is at an exceptional level.
Another correct name is Martin øDegaard. Real Madrid fan can see him, football and emotional, Arsenal, and one of the best players of the Premier League and Europe became the captain and leader, and think: ‘Why did he not win in Real Madrid?’ What happened to Arsenal as this player changed?
Well, like all the players, with the time to find their place and prove the grass of his ability. From there, he has taken the place since the first day. Then he did not have this character, and with the effectiveness of his personality, he won, and he won all of us. It is at an exceptional level.
“Real Madrid has a completely unpredictable area. It’s moments. It cannot be trained”
How much is the way to change a game depending on the opponent? Enemy Real Madrid is more focused on how much your team can do?
The highest percentage of our preparation always depends on us. But, depending on the competitor, how much we dedicate, and what percent already. Real Madrid has a component, which is an emotional component. There is a predictable area of what it does normally does, and completely unpredictable area moments. It cannot be trained. We can talk or predict and try to reduce, but it is part of the game and what is their greatness.
How do you act against the unpredictable character?
There are things we are trying to do. It is very easy to give a video today to give the environment of what happened in Santiago Fernabu (Manchester City) that day, but it is important to do it, and it can stop at the time it happens. We need to know it and identify, because this is a very important part of what they are doing, like us, if we can create those moments, we are a very dangerous group.
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After starring in many epic reassures, you have its Arsenal, that emotional component is comparable to Real Madrid, which is the main in the tie?
Completely. For me, in qualifying matches, a lot of winning teams, the local stadium must create fear. An energy, something special, nothing can happen. Then, in big games, big players. They are the moments of big players, they are at the maximum level in the tie, but very difficult.
Do you have those big players in Arsenal?
We have them and we have to do them now. That is the step we need to take.