Arsenal press conference – Mikel Arteta on Brentford, Gabriel Martinelli and
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Hello and welcome to football.london’s live blog for Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta’s press conference ahead of the Premier League clash with Brentford at the Emirates Stadium on Saturday evening.
Arsenal will be looking to continue their fine goalscoring form for the visit of the Bees who very nearly stole a couple of points off the Gunners earlier in the season before Kai Havertz scored late on to snatch victory. With the UEFA Champions League match just days later, an opportunity to rest key stars by building up another unassailable lead would be ideal.
31 goals have been scored in the last seven league wins and with Brentford suffering a defensive crisis with Ben Mee, Ethan Pinnock, Rico Henry and Aaron Hickey all injured. Ivan Toney was even spotted limping off against Chelsea although any update on the England international is yet to be given.
Arteta is expected to provide an update on Gabriel Martinelli and Bukayo Saka who came off against Sheffield United last weekend. Meanwhile, further information is expected on the upcoming returns of Jurrien Timber, Takehiro Tomiyasu and Oleksandr Zinchenko.
Kaya Kaynak and Tom Canton will be bringing all the build-up and updates from the Sobha Realty Training Centre shortly. More to follow.
13:46Kaya Kaynak
Arteta on if he always envisioned this style of play
Very difficult to do it if you don’t know the players that you have. You have to adapt to the players, but I’m really happy with the way we’re playing.
13:45Kaya Kaynak
Arteta on Rice wanting more goals
That’s something that is among the team. They want to keep improving. We feel like we have another gear to go and we’re achieving it with the majority of the players.
13:45Kaya Kaynak
Arteta on Havertz
His ability to occupy spaces, the aggression that he has, he has the physicality to play in multiple positions as well.
13:44Kaya Kaynak
Arteta on if he’s told Ramsdale that he might play against Porto if Brentford goes well
We don’t have that kind of conversation with players where we say ‘play today and you have the opportunity to play next week’. That kind of stuff doesn’t happen.
13:44Kaya Kaynak
Arteta on if Ramsdale can adapt
Not only that he can adapt but he has proven that he can adapt really well to what I want and what we want
13:43Kaya Kaynak
Arteta on if he can rule out Toney transfer
I don’t talk about any other player if not I’ll have to rule out every other player in the market.
13:35Kaya Kaynak
Arteta on if there’s an update on White and Tomiyasu contracts
Not really. I leave that more to Edu and the…
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