‘Everyone, close your eyes…’Īnd to huge cheers, the players started rubbing their hands together, while Arteta roared with laughter. ‘I wanted to say something, Mikel,’ said one wag, earnestly. WHO WE ARE!’Īrsenal were sensational and swept Leicester aside in a convincing 2-0 win, scoring twice in the first 20 minutes.Īlthough, it will come as a relief to viewers that the players were waiting for their manager when he returned to the dressing room after the game. To their credit, the players went along with it without any obvious sign of dissent, or even peeking, and did not so much as snigger when their manager roared: ‘Feel it in your body, who we are.
Having reminded them of their responsibilities, Arteta ordered: ‘Grab each other’s hands now.’ The players started rubbing their hands vigorously, with their eyes closed, while Arteta shouted at them about how ‘aggressive they were going to be in every high press situation’, how they were going regain the ball and play forwards. Close your eyes.’Īlexandre Lacazette (left) and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (right) have now left the Emirates ‘And after that you are going to grab each other’s hands and we are going to create energy in a bubble and we are going to play f****** there. ‘I want you to close your eyes and I am going to tell you what is going to happen in the game. ‘When I tell you I want you to start to do this,’ he said, rubbing his palms quickly together. ‘We are going to get all the energy in this room together. ‘We are going to do something, guys,’ Arteta told his sceptical players, who had been gathered in a wide circle in the spacious dressing room at the King Power Stadium. While the Liverpool experiment failed, an even more peculiar method employed at Leicester City on October 30 was followed by a 2-0 win. ‘Believe til the last minute,’ the coach implored his players at half-time.Īrsenal did not hide, but they were taken apart, slumping to a four-nil defeat with Nuno Tavares making two mistakes that led to Liverpool goals. The scene ignited the crowd and Arsenal, after a steady half, buckled and conceded the first goal to Mane six minutes before half-time. He and Jurgen Klopp engaged in a furious argument, shouting and gesticulating and they were separated only by the fourth official.īukayo Saka continued to develop his game and emerged as Arsenal's star talent last season Liverpool employed a physical game, upsetting the young Gunners, with Sadio Mane appearing to catch Takehiro Tomiyasu in the face with an elbow, in an incident that did not lead to a red card.Īrteta exploded in fury on the touchline. Do me that favour.’īut nothing could prepare Arteta or the players for what lay ahead. So go out and play with f****** courage and be ourselves today on that pitch. I let the team down and I let myself down. ‘Don’t leave anything on that f****** pitch because I regret it. I never forget for the rest of my career what I did here. ‘And you know what I did myself? I hid and I gave up on the pitch. You know what happened? We start to lose the game. ‘The next year, I was prepared to come here and I was believing we could win. I came here, for a long time we did not win here, but we won two years in a row here. It's very different to any ground I have experienced' He said: ‘You have to know what Anfield is.
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