Every word Mikel Arteta said on Porto fouls, blunt Arsenal attack, naivety and blame for goal

Thoughts on the game and were you surprised by the performance?

No. Obviously I am very disappointed the way we gave the game away at the end. Not managing that situation well enough. You get punished in the Champions League. If you cannot win it, you don’t lose it. We really dominated the game but we lacked purpose, especially in the first half. You need to have much more aggression, you need to break lines, to play forward and generate much more threat on that backline.

In the second half there were much better things and we generated a lot of situations, without really creating much from it. We will learn from it. Now it is clear, it is half-time. If you want to be in the quarter-finals you have to beat your opponent and that will be the purpose and the plan, with all our supporters together.

Do you think the number of fouls irritated your team and broke up the game?

That’s the context of the game. It’s something we knew and that we have to prepare. It’s something that the referee has to manage. We cannot do anything about it and we’ll have to handle with it and play our game.

Any issues with the goal and Raya for it?

Especially when you give the ball away three times in that area, you cannot do it.

How hard was it to play against a manager like Conceicao?

Yeah we’re used to playing these kind of deep blocks. In the first especially we lacked certain things. We will learn from it and do better in the second game.

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Were your team naive?

Well it’s only the last ball, so if in 94 minutes they haven’t had any naivety other than that one, I think it’s a