Mikel Arteta

That's the demands, that's the expectations that we have, that's the standards that we have set as well as a team and as a club and we are living with that with joy, with enthusiasm and with a lot of energy.

I think it goes for all the nines in the league and how difficult it is to play that position nowadays with the physicality, with the dominance of the centre-backs and the quality of them.

That's about consistency, about going again.

We know his work rate.

He's really trying to give his best and we need to continue to work.

It's not a penalty like we considered a penalty.

A touch and a contact is not enough.

That's what the referee said to us before the season.

And I think at certain moments they don't do it.

So that's just the truth.

But it's a thing we have to accept.

When you get to this stage in the competition, you get to the final and you get over the line and win it, it brings energy, it brings belief and the sense that everybody is very important and playing part of that.

So yeah, I think it's something when you get there and win it, everybody remembers and if not, nobody does.

So once you get there, get the job done.

Now we have to knock another big team out of the competition to be in the final and that's the mission.

Hopefully we learn from last year because it was painful, especially the manner that the games went and the amount of chances that we missed not to go through.

We are top of the table, we play at home against a really, really good opponent and we want to maintain our position and in order to do that we're going to have to be excellent throughout the game to win the game and that's the point we have to prove.

We can go again and again, every week we have a point to prove.

He was waiting for it.

Hello, good morning.