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    EXTRAORDINARY, INCREDIBLE David Raya | Mikel Arteta | Sporting 0-1 Arsenal
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    EXTRAORDINARY, INCREDIBLE David Raya | Mikel Arteta | Sporting 0-1 Arsenal



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    A very happy Mikel Arteta praises the ‘extraordinary, incredible’ David Raya after his superb performance in Arsenal’s Champions League victory in Lisbon.

    TIMESTAMPS:

    0:00 Intro

    0:01 Very happy it was a big night for us. It was a big night in the season. We played an opponent that was very tricky. We wanted to be a bit crispier!

    1:04 Finishers? We talk about identity, we are going to need them in the crucial moments.

    1:58 David Raya? He is extraordinary, incredible. With that it is enough, we are very happy to have him.

    2:20 Response to last two defeats? That’s when you have a difficult period, the best thing you can do is observe. See how they react, how they look at you, how they judge you. Do they start to criticise other people? I cannot be prouder to be at a club where all they do is ask how to help.

    3:14 Raya? The role of the goalkeeper has changed rapidly. We ask a lot of him but he handles it. He has so much courage and will.

    3:57 Kai Havertz? He’s lifted the [Champions League], he’s been part of something and that is a really important thing.

    4:25 Game plan to stop Sporting playing? Yes and if we can do that on top of that score three goals the even better. We know that the atmosphere here is something they create is really dangerous. They are a team that create big problems.

    4:59 The demands since August have been to win, win, win. The players need to have some perspective.

    5:39 Not about quality or execution. Those are the things that have brought us here, but the rest we have it.

    6:13 Very happy to hear Gyokeres’ reception. When a big player leaves it’s never easy. It says a lot about the supporters here.

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    27 Comments

    1. @HaytersTV on

      Growing more convinced that David Raya is Arsenal's most important player. He's the man they really, really cannot afford to lose – perhaps even more so than Rice and Gabriel? 🚫

    3. @shamsham1983 on

      Sporting Lisbon's attacking is still better than Boring Arsenal.. don't be too happy . 👎 Bayern Munich just had a statement win they deserve 💯 all bets on Germany.

    7. @Heretoannoy-k7b on

      If he used raya we'd have won carabao and still be in the FA
      But stupid "promises" were made during contract signing to apparently give kepa the cup games🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦

    9. @sankalpm1030 on

      3 key trophy winners for Arsenal

      Gyokeres
      Madueke
      Eze.

      These 3 need to start for Arsenal, they can maximise their chances of winning the league.

      The rest r bottlers or havent won in mamy mamy years.

      If they r brought in as subs, it produces flattering results for Arsenal if they win.

      They then draw their next couple of games easily..

      If three start somehow and they use Havertz, Martinelli and Odegaard.. they can do well.

      I dont even support Arsenal but as long as Odegaard sat out of injury, Arsenal played extremely well.

      As soon as hes back, theyre struggling. Arsenal fans have to hope Eze starts immediately

      Odegaard is a serial bottler. Hes a curse for Arsenal. Dont let him start.

    14. @dnn4560 on

      Don t know what happened to Odegard.. looks a shell of his former self. We cannot afford to have him on the pitch😅 just terrible

    18. @liamsanders8087 on

      🥱 same old same old Mikel dominance you love that word
      The footballs dreadful heavy eye lids snore fest and easily the worst champions league quarter finals go and watch Real vs Bayern for a proper game of football
      This rugby football you play is the worst I’ve ever seen in 40 plus years of my life and because of you you’ve demised a love I once had I don’t know what I’m watching the last 2 years awful football how any attacking player would want to join this side you damage all the attackers

    22. @RazvanAtrejei on

      4:23 the single great question in his last 4-5 press conferences, more of this please and less "how important" , "how proud" , "how hard" , "how difficult" questions please.