EPL: Arteta celebrates Arsenal impressive win at Newcastle

Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta was delighted with the character shown for victory at Newcastle.

The Gunners won 2-0 in an exciting end-to-end contest on Sunday.

Arteta said, “I am extremely happy, obviously and then there is pride. I am very proud of the players for the way they handled the environment and a team who has a lot of things that they do really well. We handled that really well. There was a lot of emotion from what happened last year here and in sport, when you have another opportunity, you have to show you have learned and approach it from a different way. I saw the fight in them to do it a different way.

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“We have to get back to that feeling [of losing last year – the video of which he showed his players ahead of Sunday] to understand. It is not enough just to talk about it. We have to see our faces and understand the emotions, not just the players but the staff also. You don’t want to be like this anymore, it is a horrible feeling. Today we had to show a different type of competitiveness, desire and then quality.

“You have to continue to grow. We have done it for 10 months and we have to keep digging every day. The demands are incredibly high., we know that. We are doing what we have to do, to win football matches and competing really well. It is three games to go and we are still there.

“Before the game, I felt that I would put my boots on today because the atmosphere was incredible. That is what you want. You are playing for a championship, we guarantee second place. Let’s keep going and digging and digging and see what is there.”