Mikel Arteta has referred to as on his Arsenal gamers to make use of the “anger, frustration, rage, and disappointment” of their 2-1 Premier League defeat to Bournemouth as gas for the Champions League semi-final second leg conflict in opposition to PSG.
The Gunners journey to Paris on Wednesday hoping to overturn a 1-0 deficit from the primary leg however will go into the sport off the again of a first-ever residence loss to the Cherries.
Declan Rice opened the scoring on his a hundredth look for Arsenal however second-half targets from Dean Huijsen and Evanilson turned the sport on its head to offer Bournemouth not solely their first-ever away victory over Arsenal however their first league double over the Gunners.
It ends in defeat.
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The consequence retains Arteta’s facet simply three factors forward of Manchester Metropolis in third and lifts Andoni Iraola’s males, who’re chasing European soccer subsequent season, as much as eighth within the desk.
Whereas the Arsenal boss was left annoyed by his gamers displaying, he insisted they might want to use that anger as motivation forward of the journey throughout the Channel.
“We didn’t create the precise optimistic momentum,” Arteta admitted.
“It actually created a variety of anger, frustration, rage, disappointment and let’s use all of that for Wednesday.
“That’s what now we have to do”
Regardless of defeat, one optimistic for Arteta was that every one his gamers appeared to come back by way of the match unscathed.
Nevertheless, the Gunners boss remained tight-lipped over the health of Jurrien Timber, who missed the sport by way of an damage picked up within the first leg however might return on Wednesday night.
