Arteta on today’s performance

Mikel Arteta was buzzing about today’s result on Arsenal’s website.

He told Arsenal.com: “I think it was a phenomenal performance with a great feeling as well because of what happened last season, and the demands that Brighton put on you.

“I think the team was outstanding today from the start to the end, and thankfully we deserved to win the game, and we won it.

“I was concerned because I think we had 15 shots in the first half and we had so many open situations to put the ball in the back of the net, but we didn’t, and this is the Premier League. We kept going in the second half, and in the end we found two very different goals, a great way to score them and I’m really happy today.

“I think the team showed a lot of determination, against a team that wants to take the ball off you and press you really high. They go man-to-man a lot up the field, you have to be very, very clever to understand what you have to do in every moment, because you are always on that edge, that if you make a wrong step, they’re going to punish you.”