 What did you make of the game? Yeah, we needed... Miquel, a much-needed victory. What did you make of the game? Yeah, we needed that win. It's been a while since we didn't win at home, so it was really important to get the three points. We scored three fantastic goals, and we have the spells in the game. We had some brilliant spells that we could have scored many more, and then when we conceded the goal, we looked nervy. And what's your assessment of the nerviness, then, because we've seen that at different times throughout the course of the season. What did you make of the way that the players handled that? Well, we knew the necessity to win the game, and we wanted to put that right today, and the moment that they scored out of nothing, a counter-attack that we didn't defend well, and they went man-to-man, and they start to throw everything at you. Obviously, they know the situation that they are in. We struggled to play that kind of game. After we got some control and we got Thomas on the pitch, and they really scored the winner. Three amazing goals today, Miquel. Yes, they were fantastic goals, and we could have scored some more. I think we made some big chances as well. Do you understand that the Arsenal fans would be quite frustrated that you were able to score goals like that and that it didn't happen for you last Thursday? Yes, but obviously, Europe is a completely different game. It was a different context, and an inch in football decides whether you're in a final or not, and when you need a little bit of luck, it didn't happen. Obviously, there were things that we could have done much better, and it was a really tough one. But just on those goals, look, first Premier League goal for Emile, first Arsenal goal for William as well, and a beautiful finish from Pepe. There's so much quality in this side, isn't there? Is it just making the tweaks elsewhere that will make sure that... Or is it just more experience that will make sure that you don't put yourself in a difficult situation? Look what you are saying. It's the first Premier League goal for Emile. So we are demanding him a stand as here, and while he's done, still here. But he's playing at the top club, and because he's done well, now when you've got his numbers, he hasn't done that enough, and we cannot put those demands. Really, we have to, because he's done it in the past, and we have to demand much more. The same with Nico, that he can do that, and he needs to do it in a more consistent way, but with the young kids' patience. Speaking of the young kids, Saka, so impressive in that left-back position. Yes, going forward, we know he's a real threat. He gives us something unique, the same as KT. Defensively, there's a lot of things to work on him with him, but he adapts it. We knew, or we believed, that we were going to attack against them the way they set up, and to be fair, he gave us a lot of joy. Chelsea Palace and Brighton next. What's left to fight for, do you think? What we did today, trying to win every match, and see what we finished, you can see the results that are crazy, still in the Premier League in this unprecedented year. So the only thing we can do is win our games, nothing else, we cannot control anything else, because at the moment, you know, in our hands. Thank you very much, thank you. At the end of that game, you needed a win, didn't you? You needed that. I thought that it was important for us to get the win today. Obviously, coming from Thursday, it was obviously difficult for us, but I feel like, yeah, it's a well deserved three points for us today. What did you make of the team performance? I feel like we maybe started a bit slow today. Our heads have been down for a couple of days and stuff, but it was important for us to bounce back. But yeah, I feel like we got into the game, into the second half and stuff, and yeah, we're really happy with the three points. First Premier League goal for you, you've been, I presume, dreaming about that since you were a kid. Yeah, I know, man, it's a real feeling for me to be fair. Yeah, like you said, it's been a dream, playing for this club and stuff, and obviously to finally score my first goal can't be better for me. You came off as your phone blowing up with messages. I haven't checked it yet, to be fair, but obviously, yeah, it's been a difficult week, but I'm so happy to get three points and score my first goal. How hard has it been, actually, for all of you? Mikkel said it was devastating. You guys were practically in tears at the end of that. How hard has it been and how difficult has it been to pick yourselves up? It's been really difficult for us as a team. It's not nice to lose and be out in the semi-finals of a tournament and stuff, but it's important that we keep our heads up and keep fighting until the end of the season, so that's what we're going to do. It was a good goal for you today. Good finish as well. Thank you. And look, you and the young boys have all been together for a long time. You and Saka link up really, really nicely. How much do you enjoy playing together? So much, you know. We've seen them a few times this season as well, so it was good for us to get a goal together and stuff, so we're really happy with that. How much fight is there left in this side to the end of the season now? Three more games to go? So much, you know, I feel like we're also together still and stuff, and we're all going to fight for each other until the end. Yeah, it's obviously disappointing on Thursday, but we're just going to keep going, keep playing and fighting for each other. Thank you very much. Thank you. Interesting how he talks about heads have been down for a couple of days, against Villarreal on Thursday, but looking at it in isolation tonight, I mean, he'll treasure that moment today, won't he, his first Premier League goal? We're talking about somebody that's been an Arsenal fan from a young age, lived in South London, had to take him across to Aylund five o'clock in the morning to the point where, you know, then they ended up moving over there. This means the world to him to actually play for Arsenal and score for Arsenal, but, you know, he's saying about how hard they're trying and what they're trying. They haven't got nothing to feel down about. They have literally saved this season for Arsenal, whatever there is to save. You know, I'm just pleased that they're continuing to kind of thrive and do well at a time where it's not great at the minute of the club. Yeah, he's shown his technical ability whenever he's been called upon by Miquel Arteza, and we saw that with the goal, didn't we? We did. I've been a big fan of his for a while, not just his technical ability but also his enthusiasm, his desire. His desire to make forward runs to be in dangerous positions to keep it on the move, which is very difficult to defend against. And you saw that all in the goal. He lays it off, he finds himself in a nice position, spots that there's a potential cross coming in, finds himself in a dangerous position in the penalty area. Then he has the composure and the technical ability to finish it because that's not an easy chance. So he's been a bright spark, as Ian said this evening. It's the one thing he wants to do as well, Leon. He wants to add more goals, you know? He's been playing really well and he's had chances in games, he's been saved off the line, goalkeepers making great saves and you can get a little bit down, but the only thing left for him to do for his game because he's got everything, one touch, two touch, round the corner, you know, pace is to add more goals to his game. Once he does that, we're talking about him and Saka. You're hoping that Arsenal can match their progression because if they don't, then people will try and take them off of us. Is that a serious concern? Massive concern. Massive concern that Arsenal are able to sort out whatever's going on upstairs with the manager, with players that's going to come in, whoever he's going to try and bring in to try and, you know what I mean, try to execute whatever game plan he wants to do because these guys are the major part of that. And if they can continue to play like they're playing when you're looking at how we're playing now and it's not great, you know, you saw it against Villarreal, still waiting for the youngsters to do the stuff. If we do not progress as quickly as these guys progress, then you have to be worried about their ambitions and what they want to do because they're fantastic players. And that's quite a statement and as you said earlier Leon, quite rightly, Arsenal has been seen as the perfect, you know, environment for young players to go and hone their skills, not to be a breeding ground for talent that's going to be moved on elsewhere. No, but, you know, have we or do we currently hold Arsenal to a standard that they're no longer at because there's no getting away. Arsenal were one of the best teams in the country for so many years but, you know, they're not at this moment in time, which is a shame for Arsenal but, you know, we're talking about the club and we're talking about the performances tonight. The young players were the best players. The positive ones have played against Arsenal many times and you were always worried going into the game because you knew how much quality they had, how many times they'd looked to play forward, how much you'd be on the back foot. Their imagination was incredible. They're going to create four or five, well, real opportunities, maybe squads. I don't feel that about Arsenal at the moment. They're the only players I look at the squad happy to play quite safe at times and not make forward passes and maybe it's a fearless factor that young players always have when they break into the squad. They play without fear but that's what reminds me of the old Arsenal I used to play against. I think that when you look at the new Arsenal and the way that the manager wants to play, like I've mentioned, it's kind of a regimented kind of way he's playing. It doesn't seem to be any X factor about it where players can go and express themselves. We don't score like we saw the goals today, you know, Pepe we haven't seen a goal like that for a long time for Arsenal. You know, even William with the free kick and stuff like that. We're not seeing chances and goals made apart from the way we see them. Saka or Tierney getting down the edge of the box, crossing it, somebody getting on the end of it. We're not seeing enough shots coming from the edge of the box from people because we've created something, turned it around a corner, someone's got half a chance and they take a shot. Everything seems so like we're trying to score a perfect goal like when we start the season against Arsenal, and once teams work us out you see how hard it is with passing sideways. No passes into areas where it's dangerous, where it might get cut out, but you might be able to get in and it's really hard to watch sometimes. Is that the players deciding to take that upon themselves or is that the instructions from the sidelines? No, I think it's the instructions that they're getting and the way they're trying to play. And we've seen on a lot of occasions, when you look at the amount of chances that Arsenal are not making and the chances they're not creating because it's very easy to shut Arsenal down because of the way they're trying to play out from the back. But at the same time, you know, every time a player goes on the field you always play with imagination. You always try and get yourself in these moments so that you can then create something you saw. I didn't expect that the message of Saka is different from the rest of the squad yet. When Saka gets in positions on the field, I mean the very first time I think the ball came into his left hand and he went on with the full back and he decided to go at it. You're seeing that from Saka and you're seeing that from Smith Rowan. They want to be imaginative. They want to be positive. They want to take their opportunities where as he said quite often a lot of the other ones that are passing their honour are thinking I'll just pass on the responsibility to you and it's becoming methodical. You know what Liam, when you watch it like you see Saka and Smith Rowan in the final third of the pitch where I'd like to see a little bit more inventiveness in and around passing out from the back, that midfielder you know, I don't think Danny Subios is that guy. I do like somebody like Martin Erdogar once you do get through those lines but that's what they need to do. They need to get the energy and the passing coming through, quicker through the team to get it to the players that can cause the damage. I don't think that happens. It doesn't happen often enough, nowhere nearer. We'll proceed the questioning on the players. I don't think that's a bias. Odegard, those low knees whether they should stick around or move on let's build on those positives from the youngsters because I suppose you more than anyone would like to see Pepe come up with more goals like this for example when he made it 2-0. Well the thing is that we know that Pepe's got a certain amount of ability about him. He's our most expensive signing. He can do his stuff but you don't see that. You would like to see him getting the ball and creating more but I think that he's had a spell in the team where this season he's been a lot better and he is getting better. You would like to see more goals like this against the top teams. Yeah definitely but the argument of is the manager not telling them to do that. I can't see that. I think the manager wants to see. I know Michael Weller and he wants to see that kind of football. He wants to see that. When times are tough for any club and times are tough when I have played you do not always want to be that guy that steps up because if you miss hit the shot and it goes over the bar people criticise you whereas the young players play without that fear. They play, they take on that responsibility, get crosses in, score goals. I get the feeling Pepe's passed responsibility on too often whereas when you see him perform like that, when you see that quality you've obviously paid an awful lot of money because he can do that. You want to see him play with a little less fear. He's got a bit of ambition and go and do that more. You say that as well with Michael and I'd like to think that Michael is not like putting shackles on people but the way Arsenal have played all through the season it doesn't seem to me that the players have that kind of freedom where they can go and express themselves otherwise why wouldn't they do it up to this point. You know even watch that game up to a certain point. They weren't expressing themselves and doing anything until they got that first goal you know what I mean? They were playing a very safe, a very slow, methodical kind of game. You know even when sometimes you see Pepe will get the ball this space behind he'd rather than go down there he'll come back and come back inside. There's a lot of safety going on with the plays like if you haven't built it up in a way Maneesh where it's how the boss maybe want it to be going then everybody stops doing that and comes back and it gets very tough to watch. Tweaking off that cautious approach is that what we've been speaking a lot already actually about Arsenal's inconsistency this season and he's touched upon it there but in a way Ian with all said and done was it not almost inevitable when you feature so many youngsters in your starting 11? At what? The inconsistency. Well now the thing is we've been very fortunate with the fact that the youngsters that we've put in have been consistent. Saka again for me Saka should have maybe started, he should have started at one Thursday instead of Saka. Absolutely absolutely should have because you saw what he's capable of doing, you see our listless we were we needed some thrust from somewhere we didn't have it anywhere and I think that was a mistake from the manager's point of view but at the same time you talk about consistency I think that he's talking about people like William like Pepe, those players we needed more from I think Pepe started to get into a little bit of form and then for some reason he was in teaming and out of the team and so it's very hard to get consistency when you're not getting the consistent game time so from that point of view that's firmly with the manager but I don't think that there's many games I've watched and I've seen Emile Smith roll and Saka not play and Tieny not play extremely well they've been very consistent and it's to a standard that you wouldn't expect it from because young players can be inconsistent because they're young players. And would you like now Arteta to look more to the youngsters maybe even the likes of Balagan to be featuring more between now and the end of the season? Yes, but it's a fine balance you've got to give the experience the young players can go through you don't want to put the whole beard on them you spoke about needing more from the senior players and being patient with the performances of younger players so if you think of next season I'm sure you'll be starting to think about how to get more minutes and more experience into these players but it's a fine line you don't want to do that and finish the season with three defeats you want to do that but finish in a positive way because that's what the club needs at the moment the club needs positivity so if Miquel Arteta can win three games after this after the Chelsea, Alice and Brighton that would seem like more of the other youngsters who've been shining Yes, we've got some good players someone like it's like Rhys Nelson he's got a cool back from being on loan abroad in Germany he's come back and kind of even makes a match based on that I know we had a big game in the under-23s maybe under-18s I'm not sure but on Friday and people like Aziz, people like Florian Balagan I'd like to see them in the match they sport now I'd like to see something like that so as it can give them a little bit of a lift for what may be coming because now you look at where's the signings going to come from is it going to have to be more youngsters and if these youngsters are coming these are the games maybe where you'd like to think that they should have been at least in the matchday squad to maybe get ten minutes of being used to this have a look at them give the fans maybe something to look forward to because at the moment there's not a lot to look forward to apart from Sackersform and Emma Smith Roseform and looking at Arsenal's up and down fortunes this season in many respects was it represented in those 90 minutes today? Yeah because like the manager said we spoke about it Leon there it started very slowly, very you know, nervy they scored a goal in all of a sudden you know they're getting a little bit more confident score another goal and you're thinking right don't finish it off now you've got a look then West Brom scored what was going on and then William came up with the free kick fantastic free kick and you know it's settled a game down but we're talking about a team that are relegated they are relegated and they're in relegation they've been in relegation positions for the whole season and we were very nervous