Arsenal defender Shkrodan Mustafi has revealed what he does after making his mistakes on the pitch and how he addresses them in the dressing room.
“After the game of course you’re disappointed because nobody is happy making mistakes, but when I made one and we conceded a goal from it, I would go into the dressing room and I’d be disappointed to let my teammates down. This is the first thing.
“You look at each of the players and think, ‘OK, they worked so hard and one of my mistakes made us lose the game’. You blame yourself a lot.
“I am quite harsh on myself as well when I make mistakes. This is something you have to learn to deal with because the next day you’re straight back in training and you’re focusing on not making the same mistake again.”
“You’ve also got to deal with social media,” Mustafi said. “On there, it’s difficult to handle when things are going well and then when things are not working out it’s even tougher.
“I was just talking with the closest people around me like my family, my parents, my wife, my kids, and this helped me to forget about everything.
“In the morning when I was coming to training, I would just focus on the training and then go back home to spend time with my family. I tried not to read too much stuff that people were saying.
“Did I feel like a target at times? I wouldn’t say a target because it’s very hard if you say that. I don’t think the world turns around me or that I’m the main point of the world.
“But it was difficult sometimes to understand because even in a few bad games where I wasn’t involved, I was the one to blame.”
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