Mikel Arteta

Probably we didn't have the necessity in terms of the points but we really had the hangar

and the desire to come to a place like this against a top, top side and prove what we are and what we can do.

Very proud, and not only for tonight's game, but what we've done in the competition so far in seven matches.

We're playing every two, three days.

And we have to stick together and to go on.

We keep tricking the players and the next one is the most important one of the season and then three days later the same.

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.

It's very difficult to come to this place against such a team with the quality that they have in every department and do what we've done.

In the best moment, they scored the goal.

That obviously changed the game.