Arteta believes Arsenal played well but gifted Man United in the end | OneFootball

Arsenal’s visit to Man United last night was certainly entertaining for the neutral observer, but it was a crazy topsy-turvy sort of game with some varying degrees of skills and errors from both sides, and a few interesting decisions from the referee and our friends at VAR….

Our opening goal was very strange, with De Gea on the floor and no one defending, but a goal is a goal! But United managed to equalise just before half-time with a good move from their strikers

After the break our defence let us down again as another ball cut through our penalty area and Ronaldo gave them the lead. We deserved to be level again as Odegaard nicely guided it into the net, but then the Norwegian made a crazy tackle in our box giving Ronaldo the chance to score an excellent penalty, which Arteta didn’t seem to happy about after the game. “First of all to show the character and the personality and the courage to play the way we did at Old Trafford [was pleasing],” Arteta told Arsenal.com.

“But, the reality is, conceding three goals at Old Trafford, it’s very difficult to get any result and when the game was there with 2-2, and we were in our best moment and had total control and dominance of the game, that’s when you have to give the next step and go and win the match and then we didn’t manage one situation, we open up and we concede the penalty and we throw the game away.

“We are here to win football matches and I’m disappointed because I have the feeling that we deserved more.

“But again, we have to be realistic that if we do what we did in certain moments, defend in our box against probably one of the best squads in the world, they’re going to punish you because they have so many goals and quality to define those moments and that’s the curve and hopefully the lesson that we have to take from today.”

But we have some easier games coming up and we are still in 5th right now, so with games coming thick and fast we’ll just have to see where we are at the end of the month…