Roy Hodgson

putting him under pressure a little bit earlier.

So it was a much better second half performance in terms of our aggression, our determination.

But I don't know it was because of respect.

I think it was more due to the fact that we didn't, as I say, push up to the ball well enough and they have an awful lot of quality in that central midfield area.

And if you give the three midfield players that they have in their time on the ball, they don't give it back to you.

Well, there's no positives in defeat as such.

It was good that we didn't get beaten by more than one goal because goal difference is important at the end of the day.

I think it was important that we gave our fans something to cheer in the second half and showed that we are actually quite a good team and we

we do have some good quality footballers in our team as well, because in the second half I think you'd have to say it was an even game, if not that we had slightly the better of the opportunities, so I think that's something positive I guess, but for us it's going to be a question of keeping on fighting, keeping on doing the right things.

But it's good for me to know that even when the team is 3-1 down against the team of Arsenal's quality, there's no question of resignation.

There's no question of not continuing to try and do the right things and work very hard.

And I think today, maybe if the game had been five or six minutes longer, we could have got close to getting the equaliser.

But our second goal came a bit late in the game.

I think it was pretty much what I said to you before the game.

I don't know if I showed that interview, of course, but before the game you asked me about our way form and not scoring goals, etc, etc.

But I think I said that...

The last performances in particular, we've looked very, very dangerous.

We haven't taken the chances that we've created, but we've definitely created chances in all of our away matches.

And we've drawn 2-0-0 and we've lost 2-1-0.

So we'd be getting closer and closer.