{"id":91897,"date":"2025-05-11T05:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T05:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/91897\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T05:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T05:08:09","slug":"you-dont-see-it-a-lot-arne-slot-sends-mikel-arteta-message-as-arsenal-face-champions-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/91897\/","title":{"rendered":"‘You don\u2019t see it a lot’ – Arne Slot sends Mikel Arteta message as Arsenal face champions Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liverpool head coach Arne Slot has insisted Mikel Arteta deserves more credit for the work he has done at Arsenal\"LiverpoolLiverpool head coach Arne Slot and Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Arne Slot insists Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta deserves more credit as Liverpool prepare to host the Gunners at Anfield<\/a> on Sunday. The Reds clinched the Premier League<\/a> title last month with four games to spare, and currently boast a 15-point lead over the North London outfit.<\/p>\n

Arsenal come into the clash off the back of a Champions League<\/a> semi-final exit at the hands of Paris Saint-Germain, ensuring they will go trophyless for the fifth successive season.<\/p>\n

The 2020 FA Cup<\/a> remains their only piece of major silverware under Arteta – who was appointed Gunners manager in December 2019 – while you have to go back to the 2017 FA Cup for the last time they won a trophy in front of supporters.<\/p>\n

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With three games left to play, Arsenal are currently three points clear of third-placed Man City in second place and four ahead of Newcastle United and Chelsea in the remaining Champions League places.<\/p>\n

Should they hold off the challenge of the trio, Arteta will have led the Gunners to a third-successive runners-up berth – with it now 21 years since Arsenal were last crowned champions of England.<\/p>\n

The Spaniard\u2019s record at the Emirates has been questioned as a result, but Slot<\/a> has come to the defence of his Arsenal counterpart – who himself made questionable comments about Liverpool\u2019s title-winning points haul earlier this week<\/a> – as he admitted he expects the Gunners to improve again under Arteta\u2019s watch next season.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone in this industry strives to become better the next day and the next season,\u201d the Liverpool<\/a> head coach said. \u201cThat\u2019s why we go onto the training ground every day, to try to improve.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe others will try to do it as well. Improvement can come from the training ground and it can come from bringing new players in.<\/p>\n

\u201cArsenal were already very good last season – and then they brought in Raheem Sterling, Riccardo Calafiori and Mikel Merino and that made them even stronger.<\/p>\n

\u201cMikel has been working there for five years and he should get, in my opinion, a lot of credit for the way his team plays.<\/p>\n

\u201cArsenal can play almost every style. It is a big accomplishment to have one style, but I saw Mikel\u2019s team play a different style at Paris Saint-Germain and another style in the home game against PSG.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey can play off set-pieces. They can defend in a low block and be the dominant team, they can play a high-press. They can build up from the back or play the long ball.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo every part of the game they are good – and that means it is difficult to analyse them because you don\u2019t know what you\u2019re going to face.<\/p>\n

\u201cWill they play on the ground or will they play long? Against Paris Saint-Germain, every throw-in was long and they got two very big chances.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Mikel deserves a lot of credit for that because the only way you can have that is if you work at a club for so many years and not all managers who have been at clubs a long time can play so many styles. That is special. You don\u2019t see it a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool head coach Arne Slot has insisted Mikel Arteta deserves more credit for the work he has done…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1121,6167,10234,763,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-91897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-arne-slot","9":"tag-arsenal-fc","10":"tag-barclays-premier-league","11":"tag-liverpool-fc","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114487473321308680","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91897","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=91897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}