Arsenal’s newly appointed manager has held not one player responsible for Arsenal’s defeat to Chelsea.
Instead, Arteta has blamed the entire team.
“I blame my team,” he said. “We are responsible for everything we did wrong on that football pitch.
“The decisions we didn’t get right, obviously. The other things we cannot control or change them now.”
When pressed on Leno’s error, the Spaniard said: “He will be down. When an error costs the team points, it’s harder. We have to lift him.
“He’s done a really good job since he joined this football club and we have to respect that.
“We just need to bring the confidence back in and that’s it.”
Arteta believes his troops were overwhelmed by Chelsea’s relentlessness in the second-half, saying: “More than something related to the organisation, physically it was tough to maintain the level Chelsea play at at the moment.
“We are asking them to do something different, to play at a different pace, much more aggressive and at the moment they suffered.
“We had a lot of injuries; we’re putting demands on young players. I don’t think that they didn’t want to do it or that they were scared, I think it was just too physical for them in the end.”
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