Arteta cleared up why Kieran Tierney was pulled out during the West Ham battle.
Sead Kolasinac was subbed in for Tierney as Arsenal rode on to their victory – and many fans were puzzled and concerned.
Arteta said, “Kieran is fine. He had a little muscular discomfort in the last few days. He tried today and worked in the warm-up but he wasn’t feeling comfortable today.
“Well, we could not control it. We believed that he was going to be fit but during the warm-up, in the last 10 minutes, he said he wasn’t feeling OK. We had to make a decision. We were prepared just in case and Kola came on and had a good game.”
Arteta otherwise was very happy with Arsenal’s performance against West Ham.
I think we were a little bit lucky in certain moments, but we found a way in the end to win it and that’s the mentality I want from the team, to always believe that we can do it until the last moment, even when we have difficult games where suffer and make it very difficult for ourselves in certain positions. But in the end it’s three points and that’s what we’re here for. We will take some big notes because there are a lot of things to improve.
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