Mikel Arteta has a chat, saying his team’s main task today is to “hide the weaknesses that we have, with Gabi [freshly-injured defender Gabriel Magalhães] as well we have some others, and play to our strengths”.

We had many other niggles. After the Fulham game we had some issues. What we are playing for is that important that you just have to move on, you have to demand the players to step in again. Gabi has a very important role, something that is not easy to replace.

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