Chris Wilder

But the learning, they've learnt hopefully from the Man City and Liverpool game as well.

And hopefully they've learnt from our first half performance to our second half performance because I thought the difference was quite dramatic.

Yeah, the old football club, you know, to host a game like this, the magnitude of it, and to play well and get a win.

Yeah, we were under enormous pressure second half, but I think we limited them to few chances.

And, you know, we backed up a good performance with a good result, and we didn't four or five weeks ago against the European champions.

And we wanted to make sure if we played well against the top sides, we have to get something from the game, and three points is a great reward for the players.

We can't open up.

I think it's absolutely crazy that people think that we can just open up against Arsenal.

You saw two or three times first half how quickly they counted and what ability some of their players have got where they've skipped round our challenges as if they were not even there.

So we had to make sure we had got the balance of in and out of possession and I think we did that.

Obviously, getting ahead...

gave us something to hang on to and we defended manfully and as I said Dean's made a couple of saves really but we've had a couple of chances as well so you know maybe you know it's just tipped from the Liverpool performance and the game where we maybe should have got something and the other way tonight where we deserve to get something Chris you've said about not opening up but how pleased were you at the actual football that you played especially first half and I said a half time it wasn't just a battle and performance you'd have footballed Arsenal

I think that if people had watched us in the Championship last year and we tried to play our own way, we wanted to stick to our identity this year, we knew we had to tinker.

and alter the approach in certain areas and key areas, and especially in the middle of the park.

We played two midfield players last year, we knew we couldn't do that this year, but I think we've got the balance right and we've not been as clinical as we should have been with the chances that we've created.

We try to play when we can and we just...

We try to win a game of football, whatever means.

If it has to go long, it has to go long.

If we have to try and break the press, we'll break the press.

We've got some talented boys that have been on the journey from League One and now they're playing the trade in the Premier League and Arsenal at home and winning.