Arsenal head coach Mikel Arteta thinks his side were unfortunate to concede a penalty in Saturday\u2019s 1-1 draw against Everton at Goodison Park.<\/p>\n
The Gunners<\/strong> <\/a>dropped points against Everton in their eleventh Premier League draw of the 2024\/25 campaign, so Liverpool will extend their lead at the summit if they beat Fulham on Sunday.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Arteta<\/strong> <\/a>opted to rest a few of his key players ahead of next week\u2019s Champions League quarter-final first leg against Real Madrid as Bukayo Saka, Gabriel Martinelli, Martin Odegaard and Thomas Partey started on the bench.<\/p>\n Despite this, Arsenal took the lead before half-time as Leandro Trossard drilled the ball into the bottom corner following a mistake from Idrissa Gueye.<\/p>\n Everton levelled the match as Iliman Ndiaye converted from the penalty spot after Myles Lewis-Skelly was adjudged to have fouled Jack Harrison.<\/p>\n Arteta reckons this incident \u201cchanged the course of the game\u201d and \u201cthere\u2019s no way\u201d it was a penalty.<\/p>\n \u201cI think we deserve more, but that\u2019s what we got at the end. A really tough place to come. What they do, they do it really well. Constantly putting the balls into the last line, dealing with direct play and second actions,\u201d Arteta said.<\/p>\n READ:\u00a0Arteta must repeat cut-throat Arsenal decisions with \u00a3168m trio ideal to boost 25\/26 title hopes<\/a> \u201cI think we haven\u2019t conceded anything in the game, which was really positive. We were 1-0 up, had some big opportunities, ran into spaces, we didn\u2019t finalise the actions.<\/p>\n \u201cSecond half we want them to start good, start to dominate the game, they\u2019re going to be more aggressive, have more spaces.<\/p>\n \u201cWe did the opposite, we gave the ball straight to the keeper, direct play, trouble, again direct play and the referee decides to give a penalty. That changes the course of the game, which I\u2019m here to give my opinion.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve seen it 15 times, there\u2019s no way, in my opinion, that\u2019s a penalty. Because if there is, then O\u2019Brien has to be out and Everton has to play with 10 men, that\u2019s clear.<\/p>\n \u201cAfter that again, we dominated the game. We didn\u2019t get too much momentum because he\u2019s constantly breaking the play and a big part of that was down to us, because after direct play we get very cheap free-kicks away.<\/p>\n \u201cWe had two big chances to win the game, we didn\u2019t convert them, so we have to accept the point.\u201d<\/p>\n MORE ARSENAL COVERAGE ON F365\u2026<\/strong> Saka came on at half-time and played over 45 minutes, but Arteta remained coy when asked if he is ready to start against Real Madrid.<\/p>\n \u201cWell, he\u2019s in a much better place,\u201d Arteta said.<\/p>\n \u201cObviously, we have built that up. He played 30 minutes, today he\u2019s played 49, a little bit less because we whistled before we ended the game.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd after that, he will be in a much better place. You\u2019ve obviously got that big decision about who plays that left centre-back without Gabriel.\u201d<\/p>\n On Mikel Merino, he continued: \u201cHe\u2019s fine, I just checked with the doctor.<\/p>\n \u201cHe had a cut, so he was bleeding quite a lot in the first half, then he started again, so overall he wasn\u2019t feeling anything.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arsenal head coach Mikel Arteta thinks his side were unfortunate to concede a penalty in Saturday\u2019s 1-1 draw…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[161,2047,13,225,80,12,101,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-3532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-arsenal","9":"tag-bukayo-saka","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-home-page","12":"tag-mikel-arteta","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-premier-league","15":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114290467996164350","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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