Something Arteta had said about the grass being dry seemed to implicate that he blamed the grass for the Burnley draw. But that wasn’t true, it turns out.
“The conditions were difficult, the grass was ‘this’ long,” Arteta said. “They didn’t put any water on it and that’s not a very helpful thing to play football.”
This quote set pretty much everyone off – making them think that Arteta was simply blaming the ‘grass’. But there’s more to it!
“We were fantastic in some moments, but we were so sloppy and put ourselves in big trouble with a lot of unnecessary situations,” Arteta began.
“We have to improve because that gives the opponent an opportunity where there is no real scenario for anything to happen and we need to improve that a lot.”
“I didn’t water the pitch yesterday in the training ground so I was expecting it,” Arteta confirmed. “That doesn’t make it easier to play. It’s their game, they do really well at what they do. It’s their strength, you are allowed to do it so we have to adapt.”
“We adapted really well in some moments but it is not the grass, it is the quality,” Arteta concluded. “What they (Burnley) do, they do really well and we could not cope with that in the right way.”
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