Arteta makes Arsenal claim after Leicester defeat!

Mikel Arteta feels the game plan from Leicester City had a telling sign.

The Foxes beat the Gunners 1-0 last weekend but Mikel Arteta, the Arsenal manager is keen to draw positives out of it. The Spaniard feels that Leicester City’s game plan to sit back and counter instead of playing ball meant that the Gunners are being respected by their opponents.

“We’ve improved on a lot of things in my opinion and we have all the stats to show that,” he said via BT Sports.

“Our thinking after Leicester, the reason why they did what they did in their game plan, to sit so low against us when they are not normally a team that do that – they’ve been really dominant and play really attractive football – I came to the conclusion that we have the respect from other teams for them to do that.

“Now we have to try to change our strategy a little bit and try to train against more certain blocks that I think are going to happen a bit more often.

“We have made teams think, ‘If we do that, we’ll be in trouble so we have to try to do something else’.

“We’re going to work on that and the moment we improve that, we’ll become even better.”

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